Best keynote ever
Jul. 28th, 2006 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
connaticDamian Conway's keynote this morning was beyond brilliant - this must count as the Best Keynote Ever. It was an half-hour satire of business speak - an imaginary start-up that would make Microsoft acceptable to Open Source developers by charging them several hundred dollars evey time they used a patent in their own software. Nobody would mind due to the use of subliminal advertising using kittens - to give everybody a warm fuzzy feeling, of course.
A great touch was a spoof of an open source pr0n search engine modeled after Google (www.go.ogle.com), including an "I feel horny" button. I cannot believe this doesn't exist yet - I'll have to check the domain name every once in a while to see if it shows up soon.
This was Damian's second spoof talk this week - his "Da Vinci Codebase" thriller spoof on Tuesday was astounding as well and must have taken him weeks to research and execute.
And I hope Damian's talks on perl 5 and perl 6 were not spoofs - or else the total count would be up to ten or so, and we'll all be the poorer in terms of coding options.
Damian - putting the con in OSCON...
A great touch was a spoof of an open source pr0n search engine modeled after Google (www.go.ogle.com), including an "I feel horny" button. I cannot believe this doesn't exist yet - I'll have to check the domain name every once in a while to see if it shows up soon.
This was Damian's second spoof talk this week - his "Da Vinci Codebase" thriller spoof on Tuesday was astounding as well and must have taken him weeks to research and execute.
And I hope Damian's talks on perl 5 and perl 6 were not spoofs - or else the total count would be up to ten or so, and we'll all be the poorer in terms of coding options.
Damian - putting the con in OSCON...
