eWeek: Linux Whirled

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Greenwood for this link. ]

“Eeyaaaaaghaaa! The frozen Furball screamed, Dean-like, as he
popped at long last through one of the few open entrances to the
Big Apple’s Jacob Javits Center for the LinuxWorld show. Limiting
the number of accessible doors to the complex in lieu of beefed-up
security must have seemed like a good idea at the time to some
bean-counting event planner, but it just cried out ‘low budget’ to
His Hirsuteness.

“Spence quickly thawed out, thanks to heat from the catfight
among vendors such as HP, Novell and Red Hat, which have all
indemnified customers against any fallout from SCO lawsuits. The
companies took cheap shots at one another, each claiming to offer
the best legal umbrella. As one rival exec described HP’s offering
as a cheap marketing stunt, another company said Red Hat’s proposal
wasn’t worth the paper it was written on, while yet another vendor
trashed Novell’s plan by saying ‘zero plus zero equals nothing.’ ‘I
remember when LinuxWorld was a cozy community of eccentric
enthusiasts,’ mused the Mouser. ‘Who let the suits in…?'”

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