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POSSE Rides With Linus during OSCON

Posted by Zonk on from the see!-the-oss-folks-in-action dept.

amountlad writes "In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, Oregon, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's Open Source Lab director and Open Technology Business Center founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC (Open Technology Business Center) and Oregon State University's OSL (Open Source Lab.)"

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  1. What is this article about??? by cide1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    All these TLA's are making me think WTF, but as long as I can get the 10-4, I'll be A-OK. AFAIK, all we need is a FAQ, and then I can forget this 404.

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  2. Acronyms by NilObject · · Score: 3, Funny
    I looked at the article summary and all my eyes glazed over. I mean:

    FOSCON ... OSCON ... N4N.org ... OSU/OTBC/POSSE ... IBM's ... OSU's ... N4N ... OSS ... POSSE ... OSS ... OTBC ... OSL ..."


    Ow! I need some aspirin!
    1. Re:Acronyms by RLiegh · · Score: 2, Funny

      I looked over the article and saw that linus is stuck running around with a bunch of suits from IBM and a crowd of mini-ESRs from some obscure OSS club. Poor linus, I bet it's during mind-numbing parties like those that he wishes he'd have heard of 386BSD back when he was considering hitting 'send' on that fateful usenet post!

  3. Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Linus Torvalds has a posse!

  4. Re:I was at the party by jbdodson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well the one with Will was not as flattering to Will, Will is a sexy guy. Though, we are all total dorks, even Linus said that. A room full of Free and Open Source Software nuts? Yep, all dorks, no surprise here really.

  5. OMG!!!! by speck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, Linus was at a party! Stop the presses! The whole world must know about this development, NOW!

  6. The obligatory joke... by andrewa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Although I'd hardly place Widmer in the top of Portland brews...

    A Texan, a Californian, and Oregonian are out riding horses. The Texan pulls out an expensive bottle of whiskey, takes a long draught, then another and suddenly throws it into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the bottle in midair.

    The Californian looks at him and says, "What are you doing? That was a perfectly good bottle of whiskey!"

    The Texan says, "In Texas, there is plenty of whiskey and the bottles are cheap."

    A while later, not wanting to be outdone, the Californian pulls out a bottle of champagne, takes a few sips, throws the champagne into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots it in midair.

    The Oregonian can't believe his eyes, "What the heck did you do that for? That was a perfectly good bottle of champagne!"

    The Californian says, "In California, we have plenty of champagne and bottles are cheap."

    So, awhile later, the Oregonian pulls out a bottle of Widmer Hefeweizen. He opens it, takes a sip, and then chugs the whole bottle. He then puts the bottle in his saddlebag, pulls out his gun, and shoots the Californian.

    The Texan, shocked, says, "Why the hell did you do that?!"

    The Oregonian replies, "In Oregon, we have plenty of Californians and the bottles are worth a nickel."

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