The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
El Reg quotes him as saying: ""There are people that are very destructive in the way they approach problems. They jump from 'this might be a problem' to extraordinarily frothy and screaming about something. I don't think it helps Linux trying to achieve the mainstream. This isn't the face we want to present to the rest of the world."
It's not clear what he wants - closed mailing lists? Wouldn't that remove some of the accountability and openness that has long characterised the community? What's even funnier that such starchy views come from the community manager of a community distribution.
But then this isn't the first time Brockmeier has advanced unworkable ideas; he did so when he was in Australia for the 2009 national Linux conference as well.
I guess people will take it all in through one ear and let it out on the other side.
The conference itself, LinuxCon, has fallen flat as far as promotion goes - and this is something which I always thought they were good at doing. Even the keynotes are not up for viewing yet.
There are three two-minute videos (something like two-minute noodles?) on the foundation website, made on day one (September 21) of LinuxCon. One resembles an ad. And all that the interviewer seems intent on doing in the other two is getting people to comment on how good the conference is.
You can't talk to someone like HP's Bdale Garbee in that space of time - the man is an institution, he has something worthwhile to say.
I hope that the case studies presented by the Sesame Street people and Sony, at least, are put up as full-length videos for they give Linux enormous credibility.
David Bass
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