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Linux Conf 2004 Gives in Many Ways
Noddy writes "The Australian Linux Conf 2004 wrapped up today, with a few geek notables being dunked for their contributions.. to charity that is. Cystic Fibrosis benefitted from the likes of Andrew Tridgell, Damien Conway and Linus Torvalds stripping down, Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet. Video of the Linus dunking and a few images are available (thanks Internode). Bet the girls can't wait for the 'Geek Boys of Open Source' pinup calendar after seeing these shots of Linus. Great work guys! More conf wrap-up info also at ZDNet."
I know we'll probably have our share of gay jokes, trolls, and comments about Linux being gay and what have you, but I ask that you avoid making fun of people who had the guts to sit nearly naked in front of hundreds of other guys just so they could do their part to put their fame to a good cause and donate a lot of money to the very worthy Cystic Fibrosis foundations.
I probably wouldn't have had the guts to be able to do something like that, but Linus and those other guys did, and I think we should praise them instead of poking fun at them like Slashdotters do all too often.
Thanks, Linus, for continuing to be a leader.
Background: 28/M/Bi-Sexual; Owner of a Linux company; MBA Harvard 2003; B.S. Comp Sci MIT 2000
"Linus Torvalds stripping down, Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet"
Only 9.95/hour!
...Phew! good thing stallman wasnt invited>;)
First Bill Gates Photoshop mod!
Is it just me or is there something blasphemous about a video of Linus in MS-Video format?
Well, at least goatse.cx has been put under REGISTRY LOCK!
Score one for non-inane posts on Slashdot.
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
who wears speedos nowadays anyway...
Fastest. Slashdotting. Ever.
(put your pants back on, nerds!)
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Why would anyone make fun of Linus naked?
I mean, he's just so HOT!!
OMG!!1, gotta go now!
holy crap, there should be a warning on those images! Almost lost my lunch over that. *shudder*
Bet the girls can't wait for the 'Geek Boys of Open Source' pinup calendar after seeing these shots of Linus.
I bet more straight geek guys would buy that calendar than girls.
I was installing Gentoo on my old thinkpad and almost "rm -Rf"'ed it when I came upon the shot of Linus in Speedos. I feel dirty...must shower.
Unless these guys specialize in validating identity on signed code escrow documents or something, I imagine the desired term was notables.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Main site is mighty-lagged Click
Linus is married to a woman. He has had several children with her. I'm not sure how much more heterosexual you get.
Oh, and forget dunking Linus. Everyone likes Linus, and he was getting up in front of a horde of his fans. You know who Linux folks would pay to dunk? McBride. You want to know what takes *balls* is standing in Speedos in front of a mass of people that hate you and saying "dunk me if you can".
May we never see th
but it takes a lot of guts (I'll refrain from saying a big set of balls from all the jokes that would lead to) to do that. Especially given the leadership role he has in the open source world. I don't think you'd find many CEO's of major companies willing to humiliate themselves in that way for charity.
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That reminds me of the segment on Conan outside of the opening of Attack of the Clones where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog goes up to a young woman he finds and exclaims, "Incredible, among all the nerds I've found an actual girl here... you can choose from all kinds of guys who have no idea how to please you!"
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Personally, I think they SHOULD create an "Open Source Geeks of 2004" calendar (or whatever that idea was called; it's been a long week.) *I'll* buy it, anyway. :)
Anise
Once again, Linus shatters previous misconceptions...Geeks do bathe!!!
It shows how these great OSS community leaders have a great sense of humor and humility to put themselves in this situation for worthwhile causes.
I know the great Gates donates money left and right and gets good press for it. Getting dunked gives you more PR goodwill (whether or not that's what these folks wanted) because of the rather personal involvement to the cause.
These are the sorts of people you'd want to be associated with. Not the uptight snobbish boss-types who just don't "get it."
That's what Open Source does to you, it will make you fat! Just look at RMS and where he is now and he's been in the Open Source business more than ten years longer than Linus. So my prediction is that ten years from now, Linus looks like an exact copy of RMS (without the beard). Stay away from Open Source!
On behalf of ITShare/Computerbank Sth Australia, we would like to thank the organisers of LinuxConfAu...We are an Open Source Non Profit group, who take donated hardware, refurbish it, put Linux on, and donate it to low income groups and individuals.
We received AU$3600 towards a van, and also Linus sweetened the pot by adding the rights to having your name on the next kernel release.....
People also donated AU$2000+ in cash on the night. Incredible generosity!
Nothing - well thats something.
The audio is a little fuzzy for me. But did Linus yell "You throw like McBride"?
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet.
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To quote the great Captain Beefheart: "Better a big waist than a big waste." So he's still got the "incipient paunch." Big fsckn deal. So he won't win Mr. Universe. Again, big fsckn deal. I don't think many of you all reading this site can boast of being physically fit. I'm not. So what?
If the "Guys of Open Source" calendar was for a good cause, like this dunk tank party was, then dammit, I'd buy it. Even if the centerfold was RMS. ^_^
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
...I'd say Linus was pretty competitive. If Linus' real worth was worth $1M and he gave $10,000 this way every year, that's 1% of his worth; presume that William Henry "Trey" Gates III, son and grandson of rich lawyers, is really worth $100G and he has to donate $1G every year to match that proportionally.
If you disallow donations which feed straight back into his own company (e.g. here is a donation for software but it must all be Microsoft; here is a donation for scholarships but the beneficiaries must use our software and mention it positively on every significant public occasion; here is a donation for vaccines, which you must buy from my new drug company... starting to get the picture?) because they're really investments (we won't get into image value yet) Bill's largesse is effectively zero.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing