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Guy left in the night - shame; up earlyish, breakfast with
Aaron and Federico - set to work on Moblin again. Filed five obs
bugs in the first minutes, fun.
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Fixed a few issues; given the sudden lack of fear
of people writing code - I should point out that (having read quite
a lot of really poor quality code) - we should be quite scared of
at least some people writing code; though, amazingly things like
garbage collection can help hide the incipient scariness of some; go
mono.
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Also got around to reading Lefty's concerns
wrt. RMS. I rather disagree. Personally, I have few problems with people
mocking Christianity particularly when we can be pretty silly and deserve
it at times, (sometimes for being overly censorious).
I also tend to think that offending me is the least of your problems The
fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (where fear overlaps with awe, or
respect) - it's just silly to mess with the creator. Having heard Richards talk
enough times to not want to bother again (it is extremely similar each time), last
time I heard it, his balance didn't
seem that unreasonable. I have one of those unfair suspicions that the deliberate
inclusion of sexual language in his stock talk, is to make it easier to advance
his declared hobby of 'affection' afterwards - which to my mind risks treating women
as objects; personally I would strenuously recommend finding a life-long equal partner
to delight in, grow with and so on (marriage rocks), and I have no idea why people sell
themselves so short. As such, in my speaking career - I would occasionally
show pictures of my wife (for OO.o Writer), and Damien's for Ekiga, and point out
the obvious aphrodisiac quality of hacking on Gnome - hopefully without
over-offending the polyamorous fringe.
If RMS wants to stand up and broadcast some of his more silly views, that
is fine by me - it is not as if people are unaware of his many foibles. Either
way, I'm prepared to listen carefully to what he has to say, even where I completely
disagree - because of his insight and passion in nucleating the Free software
movement. And I strongly prefer to hear (and give) a talk which captures the
essence and richness of the speaker as a person: warts, obscure political views,
theological considerations
and all. Who would want to attend a conference where software talks cannot be
flavoured with a little personal detail ? As such, I really appreciated Aaron's
non-technical lightning talks at GUADEC, and am sad I missed RMS' talk myself.
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Stayed up for my late night flight.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
