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Re: signed short fd

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-03-15T21:10:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Mark Woodward wrote:
> >> > I actually met him _briefly_ at Linuxworld in Boston.  He just said
> >> > "hi", then disappeared.  :-)
> >>
> >> Bruce, I did want to meet you to a greater extent, but you we surrounded
> >> by people and looked quite busy.
> >
> > Yea, I was just teasing.  It was a very busy conference.  I remember at
> > night just wanting to turn myself off.
> 
> Yes it was. What do you think: My impression was that the corporate side
> (with a few exceptions) was, while very professional and flashy, lacking
> in technical merit. SGI was one of the few exceptions, of course. The
> ".org" side was really fun, lots of guys with interesting projects, messy
> booths, and grundgy cloths.  Has the soul left Linux? Has it been consumed
> by the big corporations?

I know our booth was very busy, while many corporate booths were empty.

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