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Damian 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...
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