[cumbria_lug] Content!

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:00, Schwuk wrote:

> We've got our first content up on the site [1]!
> 
> Russ has done a write-up of his and Jen's recent trip to Microsoft's
> 'Get the Facts' roadshow in Manchester [2] in the 'Reports' category.

Thanks for that, very informative :)
I was unable to go, and so missed the chance to heckle ;^)

It seems unlikely that there'll ever be any honest, real debate. It's
something that Free Software advocates just have to accept :-/

> The last talk was from George Sanger, the Sales & Marketing Director
> of Sx3, a Solution Provider. He began by asking which football team we
> all supported, and was somewhat disappointed that most hands were
> raised when he asked “Who really doesn’t care about football?” 

Well, the meeting was in Manchester - all the Man Utd fans live
in the south of England ;-D
Anyway, wrong-shaped ball ;-)

> and Nick Barley told me that if I went with open source,
> I’d lose all my intellectual property.

Oh dear - the problem with this FUD is that a lot of MS's
constituency actually seem to believe it. You could say that
it is their loss, but with several hundred million pounds
flowing from the government to MS each year in licence fees,
it affects every tax payer :-/

> I've started off a new 'Introducing...' category with an introduction to
> Screen [3].

Screen is great - life without it would be
like life without tabbed browsing =o)

> If you want to create any content for site, please let us know.

Time, as always, is the enemy :-/

 - Richard