[Gllug] Ted T'so's Talk

[john.hearns at framestore.co.uk]

Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> 
> Did anyone else attend Ted T'so's talk at last night's Unix User Group meeting yesterday?
> 
> I made the trip (first time I've got round to making it to such a thing) and was very impressed. He gave an interesting talk on how Linux has developed over the last decade, and where it might be going over the next few (particularly the internal and external challenges faced). He was a good speaker, obviously having opinions of his own but being very diplomatic, particularly faced with audience questions at the end. It's a shame the microphone he was using started fading in and out at the end, as that was somewhat distracting, but apart from that, it was a very good event.
> 
> As far as the challenges go:
> 
> Internal - work in the user space (fixing niggling bugs, writing good documentation, providing tools users need, etc)
> 
> External - MS .NET attempts to assimilate the internet, intellectual property issues (particulary matters such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other similar legislation, and how to deal the threat of patents restricting what open source developers can build).
> 
> If anyone else was there, what did I miss out?
> 
Probably the comments he made about the SCSI system
needing a rewrite!

Also there was a question about VPNs and Linux's support
for them. Ted T'so agreed that Linux wasn't as hot in that
area as Windows - and discussed the FreeS/wan project,
and their progress. I think he said that we should wait
to see some good progress in that area in the 2.8 release???




It was an excellent talk - and a good turnout, despite
the rain.

I think the worst point was at the questions when a 
member of the audience kept on banging on about Netscape,
and the 6.1 Netscape release.   Hope that wasn't
you asking that question Wulf!

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