Audio Download: Linux Kernel to be on Radio

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday February 2, 2002 @11:27PM from the at-every-mistake-they-have-to-drink dept.

cyber_rigger writes: "The Linux Kernel is to have a (spoken) reading on Radio Free Linux and some other regular radio station throughout the world. http://radioqualia.va.com.au/freeradiolinux/ I guess this makes Linux offically 'free as in speech.' 'The Linux kernel contains 4,141,432 lines of code. Reading the entire kernel will take an estimated 14253.43 hours, or 593.89 days. Free Radio Linux begins transmission on February 3, 2002, the fourth anniversary of the term "Open Source."'" If only the mysterious numbers stations would open their source as well.

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What a waste of time... by weave · 2002-02-03 00:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

This seems a horrible waste of resources. And what do they hope to gain or prove by this?
I'd be more impressed if they steered the bot so it began reading out loud the DeCSS code and other forbidden code over and over. Then it really would be about free speech...