Re: [seul-edu] Fw: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

Well, the best I have been able to get out of them (With Chris Reed's
help!) is a BOF session for education.  They decided that education was
not important... Guess I can't blame them, heck they run Win2K/IIS 5 for
their web server... Makes you feel that they are really behind Linux in
every way...

			Harry

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001,
Douglas Loss wrote:

> I just got this from LinuxWorld.  Evidently they have a
> different definition of "education" than we do, as everything I
> see here seems to be aimed at Linux education rather than
> general education using Linux, OSS, and free software.  Can
> anyone corroborate or refute my guesses here?
>
> On 4 Jun 2001, LinuxWorld wrote:
> > Date: 4 Jun 2001 16:25:39 -0400
> > To: <dloss@seul.org>
> > From: LinuxWorld <J17136-R20187@iqmailer.net>
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> > Subject: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco
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