OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

[Lisa Kachold]

That makes two people you know who "knows Linus".

On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>   I met someone who lives in Scottsdale (native Finn) that claims to
> know him.  -jmz
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> wrote:
>> "But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their
>> suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part
>> of the process."  -Eric S. Raymond, OSDL co-founder and president
>> emeritus
>>
>> Of course, Raymond was discussing Open Source Licensing Initiatives,
>> not Linus' chair.
>>
>> The whole cubicle smelled like a well washed Finnish child, cleverly
>> disguised as a responsible adult, playing in FOSS heaven, which was
>> OSDL in the early 2000's.
>>
>> Actually, Torvalds' worked from home as a fellow for the Open Source
>> Development Lab, then a corporate-funded consortium created to foster
>> improvements to Linux.  Linus rarely worked from his cubicle, his
>> brand new desk and chair smelled of fine modern fiber weave....
>>
>> Linus sightings are common in Oregon.  When I attended LinuxCon 2009,
>> he still smelled like childish enthusiasm, health and FOSS heaven.
>>
>> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> you smelled his chair?
>>>>
>>>>  were all wondering: what did it smell like?
>>>
>>>
>>>   penguins is not an acceptable answer here btw.  -jmz
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  -jmz
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> interesting :-P
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a
>>>>>> contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon:
>>>>>> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's me in the front row:
>>>>>>  http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:
>>>>>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Will_The_Fake_Linus_Torvalds_Please_Stand_Up_VIDEO
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>   I saw this on slashdot I think.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Long Live Linus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   -jmz
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 :
>>>>>>>>> [quote:]
>>>>>>>>> <blockquote>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Glyn Moody writes"Today is the birthday of Linus. Just under 19
>>>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>>>> ago,
>>>>>>>>> on the first day the shops in Helsinki were open after the
>>>>>>>>> holidays,
>>>>>>>>> Linus
>>>>>>>>> rushed out and spent all his Christmas and birthday money on his
>>>>>>>>> first
>>>>>>>>> PC: a
>>>>>>>>> DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte
>>>>>>>>> hard
>>>>>>>>> disc. Today, the kernel he wrote on that system powers 90% of the
>>>>>>>>> fastest
>>>>>>>>> supercomputers, and is starting to find its way into more and
>>>>>>>>> more smartphones — not to mention everything in between. What would
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> world look like had he spent his money on something else?"
>>>>>>>>> </blockquote>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It appears that some of the above text, is actually from
>>>>>>>>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus -- (which
>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>> pointed to, by the first underlined (clickable) hyper-link in the /.
>>>>>>>> article quoted above -- that is, the "Just under 19 years ago"
>>>>>>>> link).
>>>>>>>>       I just read that longer item
>>>>>>>> (from http://www.linuxjournal.com/).
>>>>>>>>  Pretty interesting.
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Mike Schwartz
>>>>>>>> Glendale  AZ
>>>>>>>> schwartz at acm.org
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
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