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I understand that the CEO of Novell is to be there? Too bad, as Novell is about as far away from what a LINUX end user wants (as they are just a puppet of Microsoft and they try to distance themselves from the Open Source GPL genetics by doing proprietary extensions, for one reason. Themselves. I wonder if the invitation only means that folks friendly to the Novell "anti-community/pro-Microsoft" direction will be allowed, and everyone else will be excluded? We want open and free codecs for all multi-media, we want NO MORE SILVERLIGHT... NO MONO... etc (Microsoft/Novell's lock-in tactics need to be refuted and condemned, forevermore). Are they talking about "corporate" end users? Or those that really need free software (meaning everyone else, like schools who might want to have free codecs to do long distance learning without being "locked-in" to Novell or Microsoft's shrink wrap lock-in all customer's mentality)?

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