Re: [activities] in-depth talk on Win 2008 & MS Powershell??

Sonia Hamilton wrote:

> The committee sent out a request a while ago for in-depth speakers. One 
> of the replies that came back was from Jeff Alexander from Microsoft, 
> about doing a talk on "Windows 2008 and Windows Powershell". What does 
> the membership feel about having this talk?

Are those two products FOSS or do they run on Linux? If not, then I
really can't think we'd be interested.

As for Powershell here is one comment that was gobbled up by my
sigmonster:

    http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6cgne/comments/c03h3h7

> Here's what Jeff said:
> 
> > Windows Server 2008 has made great progress in the areas of UNIX
>  > interoperability and Linux as well.

Until they cease their woefully dishonest "Get the facts" campaign
I call bullshit on that.

Erik
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