[plug] Linus

[Shayne O'Neill]

*sigh + depressed missed a once in a lifetime*

Anyone up to spring bucks for a poor student?

....

Alas.

Another missed op due to financial ugliness.

gerrrrrr!

Shayne.

> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:22 pm, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > I was at the dinner table with Linus and his wife and three children
> > tonight.  They were really nice people (well, the children were asleep
> > for most of the time, but Linus in particular was really nice).  He
> > wasn't pretentious or condescending or aloof.  We spoke about things
> > like his Californian accent and the peculiarities of the Finnish
> > language, his travel plans, the earliest versions of the Linux kernel,
> > penguins, life at Transmeta, spam, Bitkeeper, being a father, how RMS
> > hates him, ipv6, and responding to letters from Eagle Scout leaders.
> > They are tired and jetlagged but like real troopers they will be roaming
> > around tomorrow morning for the first day of the conference.  Top marks
> > to the Torvalds family!
>
> Agree. Nice bloke, not a publicity hog.
>
> Come to think of it, quite a few like that are due in. I look forward to
> seeing HPA again, and got to meet lots of other legends like Allen/Telsa,
> Bdale, and Paul Waugh.
>
> Some door sales tomorrow morning, if you get here early to beat the media
> flacks. http://linux.conf.au/
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
>