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Heh, I can't believe that News.com decide to publish this: Linux users march on city hall[^] Here's the thing that cracks me up: A small but enthusiastic crowd of Linux lovers hit the streets of San Francisco on Thursday, hoping to trumpet the virtues of open source to lawmakers and voters. ... Turnout was on the low end of the 20 to 100 people Tiemann expected. Some programmers complained of the early 10:30 a.m. start time. Well, let's see. If it's the low end, I bet that only 20 - 30 people showed up. And, is 10:30am really that early? :suss: If I didn't know any better, I don't think a lot of programmers support the open-source movement. I know a lot of admins do, but they are busy at their jobs maintaining their networks. :laugh: "It's obvious only a tiny bit of people from (LinuxWorld) turned out, and that presents a problem," he said. "Either they don't understand the issues or they have a business partnership that doesn't allow them to talk about it." I guess CTO of Red Hat can only rationalize. Let's see, corrrect me if I'm wrong, but if we are working on GPL and are planning some business partnership, we are allowed to talk and not hide code. Therefore, I could only guess that he didn't want to admit failure and just blame it on something (like they do with Microsoft).;P Frank Bason Computer, Inc.