🚀 go-pugleaf

Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <959359363.20116.0.nnrp-06.c3adc064@news.demon.co.uk>, Alistair
Mann (am) writes:

> >> Now, let me think, what was Linus doing when he started to build a
> >> certain well known operating system...
>
> am> Not arguing with AT&T about whether they would 'accomodate'
> am> students is my guess!
>
> The nearest this comes to an interesting question isn't whether its
> sane for a student to want to go. Seems clear to me the answer is
> no. The question is why the organisers would want to discourage
> students. Only answer which occurs is that they are trying to keep it
> as vacuous as possible to encourage more undemanding people with
> bigger expense budgets and smaller neuron counts. If you let in
> students and similar one of them might ask a substantial question.

Yes! They hate that :-)

> Consider their own description. They want `influencers and
> decision-makers' (ie low level managers). They want to `Pinpoint focus
> on the hottest subject in IT' (ie swap hot air). They are going to
> have a `high profile media event' (managers don't drink enough so
> bring in some journalists). They'll have `more than 30 FREE
> briefings' (ie sales bods will bore you to death).

So you will attend or not attend based on their description of what they are
wanting to run and who they want to attend? Thats a shame. You stay away
then, and the numerous Linux user groups including the London-based Lonix
user group, with its own stall and numerous student types (I know, I've met
some of them) will just have to weep into their glasses of plonk at the lack
of balls some students have! <g>
--
Alistair Mann