Re: [LUG] .Net lecturer gets kicked out

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

frank black wrote:

> :D
>
> Just had our geohazards lecture in Scott building. The .net talk clashed
> so people were shoved off to Babbage building.
>
> Unfortunately I can't advertise being behind the mess :)
>
>
> Many thanks.
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I attended the .net lecture (in Babbage). Sadly I didn't get much out of 
it. There didn't seem to be the usuall marketing, a C# HelloWorld was 
written and compiled. I handed my email address to a few of the 
attendees so that they could contact me regarding their interest in an 
Open Source meeting. Also I left a few fliers with weblinks to DotGNU, I 
didn't have the balls to stand at the door and hand them out. There was 
no Q & A session but a small number of attendees and the presenters met 
in the refectory. From the discussion I had with Microsoft, they are 
more corncerned now about the Desktop market than the server market and 
view Linux as a problem on the Desktop.

After speaking to a number of students, I get the impression that they 
are only interested in learning .net because they have an exam or 
coursework on it. One student pointed out that it is difficult to 
migrate from Windows to Linux, but said that RedHat was also identical 
to MacOS X and the migration would be easier from MacOS to Linux.

Regards
Andrew


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