[H-GEN] Room Bookings Update

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Arjen Lentz wrote on 14/01/2009 01:18:44 PM:

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> Hi Paul
>
> On 14/01/2009, at 12:21 PM, Paul Gearon wrote:
> >>> As far as I can remember we have always been Windows
> >>> hostile.  Seems reasonable to me, as we are essentially an
> >>> open source club.
> >>
> >> It does not seem reasonable to me at all.
> >> a) there are a lots of OSS apps and tools for the Windows platform.
> >> Think Firefox and OpenOffice, to keep it very very simple.
> >> b) anyone even remotely interested in running an OSS OS will 99.99%
> >> certainly be running Windows now.
> >
> > [...]
> > Initially, I don't believe that HUMBUG was about open source software,
> > though it seems to have evolved that way now, and I can see that you
> > (Arjen) believe that it is about OSS. So has the club formally moved
> > to include OSS (I think it might have, but I'm not so diligent at
> > reading minutes of meetings)?
>
>
> I was replying to Russell Stuart, who was referring to humbug as
> "essentially an open source club" (see above).
>
> I honestly don't know what HUMBUG stands for, individuals each have
> their own idea about that it seems but there's no overall vision it
> seems.
> That's very lovely in terms of keeping all current people kinda on-
> board, but it does nothing for actually moving forward.
>
> When I walk into a HUMBUG meeting, I see some scary people, and a few
> small groups of people that appear to be having mostly a social
> gathering.
>

Robert may comment better that I can as to what HUMBUG did or now does
stand for. Humbug itself stood for Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group,
so isn't strictly OSS but isn't windoze friendly either. I have at home OSS
based unix systems (Linux mainly) and non-OSS unix systems (Solaris mainly)
at home, as well as using HP-UX and AIX for work.

The vision was to prompt the use of unix based OS'es at home / hobbie /
student, as opposed to Windoze. Linux and OSS is our enemy's enemy, but not
our only friend.

Anyhow, my 22 cents worth (inc GST, and other imposed taxes)

Nik

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