The LUG is Dead–Long Live the Soulless Marketing Corporate Junket

“I can still remember my first LUG meeting; the Greater London
Linux User Group at the GND building, London. I met developers, end
users, geeks, sysadmins, and a magazine editor who, although
neither of us knew it at the time, would later publish my first
articles on Linux. These were people with intelligence, soul, and
consideration. I had finally found a like-minded milieu for my free
software tendencies.

“To contrast, in my capacity as the local ‘geek about town,’ I
recently attended a one-off event intended to bring together the
local geek community to examine the future of the Web 2.0
technology platform…”

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