[LAU] LAC2010, some thoughts

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 05/06/2010 10:14 PM, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, rosea.grammostola
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Interesting was also the confrontation between the OSX users from HKU
>> and the open source advocates.
>
> What's that about?

a not-totally-serious remark about the fact that many presenters were 
using mac os x to run their presentations, particularly those with a hku 
background.

during the "future of lac" panel discussion, malte steiner made a very 
firm point that he did not want to see any more macbooks because of how 
steve jobs was currently gearing up for a nasty patent war and apple 
were generally behaving like dorks.

i agreed in principle (mac is kinda half-evil), but i suggested to not 
take it out on its users (who might be as pissed off about apple's 
corporate policy as many open source advocates), but rather use more 
humourous means to raise awareness.
(at some point, "hide your macbook" cropped up as the unofficial motto 
for lac2010, and someone proposed to offer case mods for frustrated 
users, to turn that logo into a pear, or maybe a carrot...)

so no danger of an all-out os war ;)