Why is this even news?
Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
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#22Thanks for the new Bash trick.
What Bash trick?
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#23This seems like a misleading title. The SVLUG isn't closing, it's just their last meeting at Symantec. It seems they don't have another meeting place set up formally yet, but I see no indication that the group is actually closing at all.
It's not a guaranteed closure, but if I remember correctly an issue like is what put an end to my local LUG. Finding a new venue is a fair amount of work, and if activity is low and there's no-one interested in co-ordinating the whole thing it's easy for the group to just fade away quietly.
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#24Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#25"Symantec kicks SVLUG out of venue" would be a more correct headline.
More like "Symantec signifies it's about to go bankrupt by isolating itself from the tech community"
I dunno, it isolated itself from the tech community years ago by not being terribly effective at stopping viruses and malware, and it's still making a lot of money.
News of their death is sadly very much premature.
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#26Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#27Why is this even news?
It is interesting that an extremely technical community has been booted from their regular meeting spot by the supposedly tech focussed company Symantec.
SVLUG is quite an influential LUG. The loss is all Symantec's, though they don't appear to realise that.
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#28So now that the confusion about SVLUG closing has been removed and nothing serious is going on, this reminds me of exciting times loooong ago, when Marc Andreessen spoke at SVLUG and then Netscape had buses waiting outside to drive everyone (who didn't want to drive themselves) to San Francisco's "Sound Factory" for the Netscape (open source) release party [0]. I also remember Linus Torvalds as speaker. At one of the…
TIL that Shepard Fairey did the Mozilla logo. That's hella cool.
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#29Wow .. seems there are more people in the intersection of SVLUG and HN than I thought :-)
Re: Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec
#30This seems like a misleading title. The SVLUG isn't closing, it's just their last meeting at Symantec. It seems they don't have another meeting place set up formally yet, but I see no indication that the group is actually closing at all.
Thanks, we've updated the submission title from “Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Is Closing”.
I thought the new title meant that they were ceasing to use some Symantec software...