Re: PLUG in Newsweek

[Eric <southpark@nni.com>]

"Michael C. Toren" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jason Lenthe wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:59:39 -0500
> > From: Jason Lenthe <lenthe@mailhost.sju.edu>
> > To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > Subject: PLUG in Newsweek
> >
> > PLUG was mentioned in this week's edition of Newsweek in an article on
> > Open Source and Linux.  I thought it was cool that PLUG was mentioned.
> 
> See http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/ty0103_1.htm if you don't
> have a print copy.  I wouldn't count on that URL working once a new print
> edition hits the news stands, though.
> 
> PLUG is mentioned in the first few lines.  Here's a copy of the first
> paragraph:
> 
>     Code Warriors
> 
>     The grass-roots 'open source'
>     software movement is no longer
>     just a hacker cult. It could end up
>     challenging mighty Microsoft.
> 
>     By Steven Levy
> 
>     The owner of the suddenly tiny Cyber Loft cafi stopped counting at 70
>     people. "It's never been this crowded before," he said of the
>     pasty-skinned mass of keyboard-clicking humanity that braved bitter
>     temperatures to attend last Wednesday night's meeting of the
>     Philadelphia Linux Users Group. The attraction was Eric Raymond, a
>     flannel-shirted 40-year-old programmer who has emerged as the principal
>     philosopher of the "open source" movement, the hottest thing going in
>     software today biggest threat to Microsoft that's not on the government
>     payroll.
> 
> > JML
> 

 Great... I planned on making the next meeting my first. I might want to
rethink that, considering this new publicity :)  Of course, I still
gotta borrow the car and make sure my friend can come but ill sure as
hell try to make it (and figure out where Walnut St is)

-Eric Windisch

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