Bill Jonas on Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:59:40 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] ESR at Penn


On 11 Feb 2000, Kevin Falcone wrote:

>Well, I am half a Wharton weenie and half an engineer, so I thought
>it was interesting.  As I said, he spoke about several business models
>supported by Open Source software, and then he gave the advocacy pitch.
>(ie how to be an effective open source advocate and not totally
>alienate your managers by thinking of them as idiots)  He spoke for
>nearly 4 hours, which is impressive in and of itself.

Wow.  It's a good thing I didn't go, even though I really wanted to.
(If you're wondering why, consider the fact that I just got home from
work... <g>)

>As an aside, pictures of the event are available here
><http://dp.seas.upenn.edu/pictures.html>
>
>Be warned, that is a *big* page (lots of thumbnails).  I am in the
>extremely dark pictures at the top of the page which depict us trying
>to transport Eric from 30th street station to the Towne building in
>record time.

Cool.  I'll have to take a look tonight at work (where we have the
uber-fast connections, as opposed to what I have here at home ;)

Bill
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