Vitanuova for 2003 March 9 (entry 5)

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I gave the 15th anniversary address at SVLUG, which is odd, because Linux is only 12 years old. My talk was called "The Empire Strikes Back: Constraining Free Software Development" (a title partly due to Eben Moglen), and Biella, Praveen, and Riana came out to hear me along with about a hundred other people.

Several people in the audience were "TV people" and were quite familiar with the issues surrounding ATSC. It was funny afterward to hear one of them complain to the others about what a bad idea it had been to add color to NTSC.

I used MagicPoint for my talk. I was a little annoyed by MagicPoint's handling of line wrapping, but in general it seems like a convenient way to do a presentation with free software. It would probably be difficult for people to tell that it's not PowerPoint.


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