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

[Stephen]

you smelled his chair?

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 There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes: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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