no one wrote out about it, so i'l try that out.
it appears that there were about 28 people that came in (including those
that came later, and one or two that left in the middle, hopefully just
cause they needed to get home before busses stop).
the meeting begun a little late, but that was good, since as israelies,
most of us came slightly past 1pm.
john hall talked about the importance of standards for linux systems, and
the various efforts being made to support a standard linux base (see
http://www.linuxbase.org , and also an article on linuxworld, at
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-lsb.html). the basic
idea is "lets not repeat unix's history again, and avoid market
fragmentation".
another point that john made was that linux appears to start positining
itself as the unix standard. "with around 30 million unices around the
world, where about 20 million of them are linux, linux _is_ the unix
standard, by volume". he made a point that most commercial unix vendors
started either selling linux directly (e.g. SGI, IBM), or adding linux
binary support to their OSes (solaris, SCO, openbsd, freebsd, etc.).
various questions were raised by the audiance (not only on this issue),
and john answered them, until we were forced out of the hall (pun
intended) by the cleaners, and then out of the campus by ira (explaining
that hall's too nice to tell us how tired he is).
the last part, that was discussed outside, is what ira refered to in his
posting earlier, and this seems like the only "to-do" thing that was
actually raised during the meeting. note that this is still a very early
initiative, so don't go around talking about it to other people as a done
deal.
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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