::scipio's adventures

Today I put my Focus on free software philosophy and Ubuntu. First talk was about Friedrich Nietzsche and open source. It was given by a PhD of physics and philosophy. Luckily the speech is on the official DVD as well. So I could read it again at the train station. Two other highlights were the keynote speech of Mark Shuttleworth and the hacking contest.

If you're interested in the LinuxTag or one of the talks you can get most of the material at http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/.

I just got back from Wiesbaden. Indeed a nice exhibition. But don't ever tell those guys you aren't a coder. Otherwise they will talk to you as if you were 5 years old. Whatever. Today the best presentation was the command-line-marathon with Sven Guckes. This guy got EVERYTHING in command line. Starting from E-Mail, ICQ to WWW and text-editing. For my part, I'll stick to Thunderbird and Opera.

Another great talk was given by credativ GmbH CEO Michael Meskes. He discussed the issue, whether one can make a living from OpenSource by consulting and support. But he also admits that you still have to use proprietary products as well to fully satisfy all customers.

Good night then. I'm dead tired, since I didn't sleep too much on the train. (and almost missed it because of the vanity fair)