The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin - Ch. 23, by Dr. Peter H. Salus

February 1st Meeting - Special Event

January 15, 2006

The Hamilton Linux User Group is very proud to announce a special event for our Wednesday February 1st meeting. Our guests will be Bob Young, Peter Salus and Ren Bucholz who will be participating in a panel discussion dealing with Linux vs. SCO and the relevant freedom issues and legalities.

Please join us for this free event in the Hamilton Room of the Hamilton Public Library (Main Branch) at 55 York Street (next to the Farmers Market). The Hamilton Room can be found on the west side of the main lobby.

Map to location [ http://map.hamilton.ca/mapit/MapIT_HGIS/MapIT.aspx?District=Hamilton&StNumber=55&StName=York&Direction=&Suffix=Blvd&label=Central%20Library ]

We will be starting at 7:00pm sharp and finishing by 10:00pm. Refreshments will be generously provided by FibreWired Hamilton [ http://www.fibrewired.com/hamilton/home.shtml ], our sponsor for the evening.

Bob Young [ http://www.ticats.ca/index.php?module=teamstaff&func=display&staffid=32 ] - Owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats [ http://www.ticats.ca/ ], Lulu.com digital publishing and co-founder of Red Hat Software [ http://www.redhat.com/ ]

Peter Salus [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus ] - Linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author and editor of books on computing

Ren Bucholz [ http://www.eff.org/about/staff/#ren_bucholz ] - Policy Coordinator, Americas, for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

We look forward to seeing you there. Be sure to have tough questions prepared for our guests.

Regards,

Ron and Jennifer Harwood

10:00 pm