Unisys Smoking Hot Demo at Linux World Boston 178
This year's LinuxWorld Boston started off with a bang...and a fair amount of smoke. Unisys apparently had a few problems launching their first demo, as our own Robin "Roblimo" Miller reports over at Newsforge (also owned by VA Software). From the article: "Less than an hour after the show floor opened at the 2006 edition of the Boston LinuxWorld Expo today, fire alarms went off and a plume of smoke arose from the server cabinet in the Unisys display. "I knew we had a magician scheduled," said one rattled Unisys employee,"but this isn't what I expected." Indeed, this was an unexpected event. It was a real fire -- or at least a considerable smolder, complete with firemen, evacuation orders (soon rescinded), and other hoopla. Photos and a video clip included."
ROFL (Score:5, Informative)
Luckily Google News came to the rescue
http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/04/04/169215.shtml?
Link to video:
http://www.newsforge.com/blob.pl?id=02083954d3d50
NO NEED TO WATCH VIDEO (Score:5, Informative)
Happened to me in a demo... (Score:4, Informative)
The Coast Guard was a big Unisys customer for a while - lots of workstations running the Convergent Technology Operating System (CTOS). I'll bet that even here on Slashdot no one's heard of CTOS...
MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Informative)
Re:NOT a server cabinet (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Good. They deserve it. (Score:4, Informative)
Unisys' actions drove up the cost of software by demanding payments from developers who made GIF creation software. In the open source world, because of the patent issue, the GD library could not legally create GIFs until a year later in 2004. GIMP would not open or save GIFs also because of Unisys' actions.
So, our commerical software was more expensive, and our open source software was crippled because of this company. Unisys has given nothing back or made ammends. Yet, you're willing to let by gones be by gones so easily?
Tell me something, are you going to go out and buy a SCO license a couple of months after they get asses handed to them?
Clarification from Unisys (Score:2, Informative)
Not a Unisys server! (Score:2, Informative)