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From: Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fOSSa
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:32:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik8=Q72mxYhZhZ+q90R8vNwGUL_B9qhQdcjtyek@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101025100037.GA1123@polynum.com>

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM,  <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:02:04AM +0200, Mathieu Lonjaret wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Will anyone here be attending fOSSa?
>> (http://fossa2010.inrialpes.fr/)
>> I'm afraid it doesn't look very interesting from a technical pov...
>
> Yes... Quote:
>
>        "the second edition of fOSSa conference presents this phenomenon as
>        a new social paradigm."
>
> Sigh... And this is with our money...

Go on strike for Glenda! Demand more carrots!

> But as soon as I read: INRIA, I knew.

We should be grateful for INRIA's unmatched gifts to the future of
mankind, see for example:

http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/

It is certain that future generations will marvel at projects like
this the same way we marvel at the ancient pyramids of Giza.

> There is so much to be done, and so few to do.

The EU should setup a CAP program for the software industry that paid
programmers not to program.

Unlike with the CAP, this would provide an unquestionable net-social
benefit to the world.

uriel



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25  9:02 Mathieu Lonjaret
2010-10-25 10:00 ` tlaronde
2010-10-26  9:32   ` Uriel [this message]
2010-10-26  9:57     ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-26 12:34       ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-26 15:01       ` David Leimbach
2010-10-26 15:08         ` ron minnich
2010-10-26 15:51           ` David Leimbach
2010-10-26 20:14             ` tlaronde
2010-10-26 20:37               ` hiro
2010-10-26 20:50                 ` hiro
2010-10-26 20:56                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-28  6:00         ` SHRIZZA
2010-10-26 10:02     ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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