From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101025100037.GA1123@polynum.com> References: <20101025100037.GA1123@polynum.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:32:27 +0200 Message-ID: From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] fOSSa Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6d103af0-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, 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: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"the second edition of fOSSa conference presen= ts this phenomenon as > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0a 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