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

Tue Dec 29 12:09:26 MST 2009

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 There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes: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