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Linus to speak on "The Origins of Linux"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-seventh-day-he-rested dept.

Paul J. White writes: "Everyone in Silicon Valley will probably be there when Linus Torvalds lectures on "The Origins of Linux" in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 6 PM. It's bound to be interesting, so sign up early!"

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  1. Religion by SilentChris · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Everyone in Silicon Valley will probably be there when Linus Torvalds lectures on "The Origins of Linux" in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 6 PM. It's bound to be interesting, so sign up early!"

    "from the on-the-seventh-day-he-rested dept."

    *Sigh* Well, it is a religion.

    I miss the days when operating systems ran programs, and weren't political statements.

  2. It's all clear... by Spackler · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you RSVP, please provide: For US citizens: Full name, affiliation, address, phone number, and notification of US citizenship. (Please bring your picture ID.)

    Bush: How can we get rid of all these commie bastards that the MPAA keeps bugging me about?
    Ashcroft: If we grab their hero, and make them want to come here for him, we can get them all in one place.
    Cheney pulls off Bush mask
    Cheney: They would never fall for that, it's a military base!
    Ashcroft: I got two words for ya, slash dot!
    Linus: Um, Mr. Asscroft, that's one word.
    Ashcroft: Guards, sieze him!
    Cheney: IANAL, but BWahahahahahhaha!

  3. Re:must be a US citizen? by Ledge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm, people with green cards and non-US passports aren't citzens, so I think you're ok.

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  4. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Wow, speaking gigs... "

    Think he will speak long enough that an Oog Vorbis recording would get into gig(abyte)s? And me with only a dial up connection:(

  5. Re:must be a US citizen? by lastninja · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are obviously afraid that Linus will be hit by a bus, driven on the wrong side of the road by some English guy.

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  6. They might as well... by Kasreyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the way our laws are going all the professional OSS coders are gonna be fleeing the country anyway (probably to Russia just to make the irony that much more perfect), so why not arrest them before they can escape? After all, every one of them used their brains today, and brains can be used to write code, and code can be used to circumvent encryption schemes, so the brain is a circumvention device. It's basically a crime to be a computer programmer in the US now, so git while the gittin's good is my advice...

    -Kasreyn

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  7. Hrm. by Kasreyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    This site is a bit over-the-top. Would apparently lay the entirety of Linux, the OSS movement, the wheel, and sliced bread at Linus's feet.

    Not a word about the GNU project, RMS, the FSF, the GPL, etc. Just "appease the Linux fans by publically worshipping their poster boy!".

    Heh, I bet RMS is taking an ANGRY sponge bath this morning. =P

    -Kasreyn

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