LinuxWorld 2005 - report

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >.  The booth babes were tacky.  Really, really
> > tacky.  I mean, "blond twins wearing nearly nothing and running up to
> > people to get pictures taken" tacky.  I mean "wonder woman with batman"
> > tacky.  And i mean blondes with scandanavian accents handing out bottled
> > water on the sidewalk.  Perhaps i'm just old fashioned, but I always
> > thought of Linuxworld being above that sort of thing, and now its not
> > any longer.
>
> I was particulary disappointed that you had TWO (count 'em, TWO)
> pictures of Mad Dog Hall and only ONE picture of a portion of a booth
> babe.  I will have to drive up to the city and check it out myself.

Go for it.  I'm all for looking at attractive women, but LWCE just felt
like the wrong place.  Maybe i'm just old fashioned.

>
> I note that you did not mention if our friends at SCO had a booth ;-)

they did not.  The last time SCO had a presence was 3 years ago when the
UnitedLinux fiasco was taking off.

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