Bookstore Hospitality Suite at Dallas!

[David Fiedler]

In article <406 at sering.cwi.nl>, jaap at cwi.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:
> In article <3966 at hoptoad.uucp> jim at hoptoad.uucp (Jim Joyce) writes:
>  > 
>  > Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore will have a hospitality suite  at  the
>  > Grand  Kempenski  Hotel  in  Dallas,  site  of  the Usenix Winter
>  > Conference Meeting.  Wine, soft drinks, cheese,  books,  and  the
>  > occasional  author  are  on  hand  from  4 - 7 pm, Monday through
>  > ... etc.
> 
> Yeah, according to my experience you will have all the books stacked
> up, serving the a bottle of wine since there happens to be a
> prospective client with a swiss army knife in sight, while the
> authors are eating the cheese--somewhere else.

Hey, I'm an author, and if I *don't* make it to Jim's annual bash (which
is, by this time, a "don't miss" classic of Usenix), I miss out on talking
to a lot of interesting people, GOOD (or at least decent) wine, and
*everybody* gets cheese.

If  Jim were a super-capitalist creep the way you're implying, he'd have a
big booth at Uniforum with dancing girls. Nobody at any of Jim Joyce's
*hospitality* suites (he knows what the word means) has ever been turned
away or declined food or fun because they weren't a "paying customer".
Where else do you expect to meet truly interesting people? At some of the
"big company" suites and such, you can expect to be *ignored* if you're
not a big customer, member of the press, or potential employee.
-- 
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