At 1:02 AM -0500 8/15/02, Greg Cagle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
>
>>  It is fascinating to see all of these folks tripping over each
>>  other as they jump onto the Linux bandwagon (exception: Sergey
>>  is an academic from Stanford, NOT a business person, so he GREW
>  > up using Linux).  Carly certainly was a leader in this "Linux
>  > bandwagon-jumping" contest and I am amazed that she is nowhere
>>  to be seen in terms of keynotes (or even in terms of "feature
>>  presentations", which I understand are a step lower in the
>>  conference-speaker pecking order).
>
>Carly gave the keynote at the January LinuxWorld in NYC.

Ahem...  In the old days, there was ONE keynote.  Nowadays,
with so many fragile egos at the top, conference organizers
have come up with the clever idea of SEVERAL keynotes.  This,
of course, would make tonal musicians (such as Mozart) die
all over again.

But I digress:

Yes, Greg.  That's why I explicitly wrote:

    Carly certainly was a leader in this
    "Linux bandwagon-jumping" contest.

My two sentences above should be read as a love letter:
http://www.robelle.com/library/smugbook/manual.html



BTW:  There is a growing sense of uneasiness in the Linux
community about the increasing number of "suits" (male or
female) complete with bodyguards, handlers, and so on.  To
paraphrase an Oldsmobile advertisement, "This is not your
parent's Linux" (or, more accurately in this modern era, when
true innovations don't seem to be coming down from the
executive suite but up from the bits-and-bytes programmers,
"This is not your child's Linux").

No wonder there is a lot of talk about "kidnapping".  But I
digress.  I look forward to an informal meeting with some
file-system experts.  Naturally, the conversation will be
about *distributed* file systems.  I am still searching for
information on trivial (for MPE folks) things such as freaddir
and fwritedir, which have been "standard" on every release of
MPE since 1972 or so.

Different strokes for different folks.

On the subject of "leadership", here is the abstract for a
session that I attended yesterday on "The LSB" (The Linux
Standard Base), a new and exciting concept:

___________________________________________________________

The LSB: Building an Easier Life for Everyone

M. Drew Streib, Community Development Manager, Free
Standards Group

The LSB provides a stable platform for the development of
applications. The benefits to developers include stability,
reduced testing time, and good documentation of interfaces.
The end result is a much improved experience for everyone,
from developers to enterprise customers to end users. We
will see more software sold on shelves that "just works" as
expected, because the user's runtime platform will match
that of the developer's environment. This session will
explore the benefits of the Linux Standard Base to your
everyday user, and how you can help to ensure that your
experience is as expected. Come learn some of the
technical background of the LSB, and some of the general
issues developers must deal with in end users running
applications on platforms that vary from machine to
machine. Leave with a general understanding of why the LSB
will improve the user experience, and what steps are
necessary for us to make the entire process work.
___________________________________________________________



Let me repeat this bits-and-bytes sentence:

    We will see more software sold on shelves that
    "just works" as expected, because the user's runtime
    platform will match that of the developer's environment.

Carly *had* a long and genuine technical leadership, provided
by MPE.  In fact, she still does, with MPE.  I have mentioned
just two examples (MPE's standard base and MPE's file system).
I am sure you can come up with many other examples.  But she
was not happy with her genuine MPE leadership.  She had to
prove her leadership by jumping on the Linux bandwagon (via
a LinuxWorld presentation BEFORE Scott McNealy and Larry
Ellison.  She certainly did.  Good for her.

Granted, Carly is too far up the leadership ladder in HP and
she probably has been shielded from all the nasty minor
technical details.  She deserves the benefit of the doubt.

The question still remains:  What's the deal with MPE?
I look forward to her keynote at HP World in Los Angeles.

Puzzled in San Francisco,

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