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Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)

(David is on the left, and I'm the guy on the right) Anyway, here's what happened: Not to say that big brother is everywhere, but short of having microsoft people monitoring our lists and newsgroups (with wouldn't overly surprise me, after all they also tried a PR compain with magazines, posing as simple users who liked microsoft products), the announcement was available in several places, including freshneat and Linux Today, as well as the Svlug web page, so I did expect some microsoft people to have learned about it, some way or another, and to be waiting for us there. They were actually much smarter than that, and did what I hadn't quite expected: two microsoft people, Dan Frumin and Mike, met us at the cafe where we had planned to meet before going to the ms event.

He also wrote a review, and the main svlug linux tea party page is hereThe Palo Alto daily ran an article on the event (thanks to Ira Abramov for the scan) I first want to reassure the worried reader: "Rick Moen was there". The photographer took a lot of pictures, and some should turn out to be very good, I wonder where they're going to show up... From left to righ: Brian Chrisman, Jesse Mundis, Mark Smith, and Wayne Earl I still think they're a monopolistic company which thrives to crush their competition without worring too much about laws, and that constantly changing their protocols and file formats to make sure people can't really be compatible with them is plain evil (the list is longer than that, but I'll spare you the rest).

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