Originally posted Sun, 23 Nov 2003
Doc Searls has posted his notes on Apachecon in his SuitWatch
- November 20 (link gone, check the page on archive.org ). Though his newsletter does not cover the technical
(read juicy) details iscussed at the con, he has included a list of
blogs which have discussed Apachecon in full.
He has an interesting quote in his newsletter about
Microsoft.
consider what Don Norman once said
"Microsoft is a conversational black hole. Drop the subject into the
middle of a room and it sucks everybody into a useless place from
which no light can escape."
I totally agree with him on
that. I have spent countless hours discussing Microsoft with my
friends on what s wrong with them. Too much bandwidth has been spent
on discussing Microsoft. One day I finally decided that the moment
someone mentions Microsoft, I will go into IGNORE THE POOR FELLOW
MODE.
However at Apachecon, Microsoft had no mass there.
Yet Microsoft has no mass here. It's more like a literal black hole--a subject that doesn't come up. When it does, it fizzles pretty fast. Here's one conversation I overheard:
"Did you hear anything about Bill Gates' speech on Sunday?"
"No."
That was it. End of discussion.