Conference on Remedies

[Matthew Benjamin <MBenjamin@comshare.com>]

Jamie,

On the topic of presenters at the next Appraising Micrsoft conference:

I would really like to see a strong and diverse contingent from the Open
Source software camp, which is itself diverse and not capable of being
represented by any one spokesperson--but probably capable of
representation by three or four key people.  I'm not one of those
people, but I certainly know who they are--as do others on this list.  A
good starting point would be any of the folks cited in
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/browne/index.html.  Another
good group to talk with would be Larry Wall and the folks at O'Reilly
and Associates.

I have to say that the best developers and advocates of Open Source
software don't spend as much time worrying about Microsoft as they do
with building some real alternatives.  They can say firsthand what kinds
of continuity and changes would facilitate the continued expansion of
Linux, Open Source applications like Apache, Perl, and Sendmail, the
market for commercial applications on Linux, and the like.


Matt Benjamin