Thus it was written in the epistle of Steve Dirickson (Volt),
>
> I'm not sure this is really an apples-to-apples comparison; O'Reilly
> doesn't need to make most of their annual operating budget from the Open
> Source Convention.

True.  Still, it seems unlikely that replacing headache-producing noise with
entertainment-quality music would raise their costs much ;-).  I doubt that
the lunches cost more and the other things I mentioned (with the possible
exception of child care) seem unlikely to be a significant percentage of the
budget.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have
devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At
last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the
footprint. And lo! It is our own.
                                        -- Eddington, Sir Arthur (1882-1944)
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