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Linus to speak on "The Origins of Linux"
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!"
Be paranoid for a moment, think about what would happen if all those who attend the talk are arrested for "DCMA" violations ...
A lot of American Open Source Coders in ONE! swell swoop..
feel the shiver?..
Either way they will have your profile from now, what with all the information they are collecting.
tchuss!
I'm a student at Waterloo and last year my friends and I organized a great event at our Univeristy that brought an interesting interview of Web inventor, Tim Berners-Lee to our school.
The cool part is that to get TBL we didn't have to do much. A distance-learning program called the VisionQuest Series made all the arrangements and all we did was tune in with our browsers and satellite. A question of mine was even chosen and TBL answered it.
Why don't more people speak through this forum, or something like it? I wonder if those VisionQuest people approached Torvalds? I would love to hear Linus speak but I can't quite make it to California. When is distance-learning finally gonna be popular?!
"do you think he'll have a powerpoint presentation? hehehehehe"
What do you mean? Two years ago, Linus praised Microsoft for at last producing a useful program. Remember, back then there were no viable free option.
Linus is more pragmatic than NOT using PowerPoint. However, if there is a viable option today, I believe he may use it.