George Fong – Chair of Internet Australia
The Challenges of the Changing Social Significance of the Nerd
- “This is the first conference I’ve been to where there’s an extremely high per capita number of ponytails”
- Linux not just running web server and other servers but also network devices
- Linux and the Web aren’t the same thing, but they’ve grown symbiotically and neither would be the same without the other
- “One of the lessons we’ve learned in Australia is that when you mix technology with politics, you get into trouble”
- “We have proof in Australia that if you take guns away from people, people stop getting killed”