On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does Fedora or Red Hat have any plans to have some kind of exhibit for CES
>> 2013?
>
> No.
I don't have any idea what Red Hat might have for plans but Fedora
doesn't have any plans to attend at this point.
I was at CES 2012 and I am registered for 2013.
Red Hat and Fedora were not.
Canonical was present. The booth was staffed with people who were
making no apologies for their proprietary products, in fact they were
pushing them. They were showing off Ubuntu on ARM, Ubuntu One, Ubuntu
corporate desktop support, and Ubuntu TV. It is worth mentioning, that
they were all out of media and stickers since the community
constituency was in attendance.
Microsoft was present but it was heavily rumored that they would not
exhibit in 2013 because they were not guaranteed their CEO a keynote
spot. I was also at the Steve Balmer's final CES keynote in 2012 where
Windows 8 was hyped. Trust me, I face palmed when Microsoft took
credit for innovations that I have seen in Free Software.
I'm going to +1 Fedora @ CES2013. Many embedded products that run the
Linux kernel are there. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that
today's slot machines use GNU/Linux. The success of Sugar on OLPC
hardware proves that Fedora is a fine choice for deployments that must
work in the long haul.
I take it one step farther, I'd happily be part of organizing the booth.
Thanks,
Beth Lynn Eicher