On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > > > Really, there's not nearly as much need for the LUG as there used to be. > Linux is much easier to install, communication between everyone is better, > and Linux has gotten far enough into the mainstream that there's not as > much > need for advocacy as there used to be. Linux didn't destroy all opponents > in > the OS wars; but it did force the other vendors (M$ and Apple) to get a lot > better. I generally agree with this. I'm far more interested in the Free/Open Source Software movements and issues than Linux itself as an OS. Linux as a platform - great! But once Linux is on the box - then what? So my focus area is a bit broader, but LUG's seem to be the best place to find like-minded people, including topics like: * Licensing (understanding the GPL) * Linux & F/OSS in the Enterprise - how to integrate into a windows-dominated environment - How to provide services to windows clients transparently - authentication and identity sourcing - Workflows and tool chains * More broadly, our privacy rights * Standards, and standards corruption by for-profit entities. * Developing solutions on Linux with F/OSS tool chains - web develepment being a key area of interest for me. * Coming changes/new features in the kernel. > In the end, that's a pretty good result. Once again, the > (relatively) free market helps consumers win in the end. :) > Free (liberated) software helped more than markets, imho. > > So the LUG is to a greater percentage what it always had been... a social > club for geeks. :) > > Yar. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091029/016f6768/attachment.htm