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Alan Cox Given Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the great-bearded-one dept.

sebFlyte writes "This year's LinuxWorld awards in London were given out last night, including a lifetime achievement award to sometime maintainer of the Linux kernel and general open-source evangelist Alan Cox. Awards voted for by the user community also went to Ubuntu, for best distro and IBM for best corporate contribution to open source. He also chose to poke fun at the gathered hordes of open source coders saying "I do like all the dot-orgs... They have everything you need in life except soap.""

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  1. What are you going to do now? by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alan Cox: "I'm going to Disneyland!"

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  2. Re:Who needs SOAP? We've got CORBA!!! by temojen · · Score: 4, Funny

    In fact one of the .orgs does have soap.

  3. Soap and... by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "I do like all the dot-orgs... They have everything you need in life except soap.

    ...women. Let's not forget women.

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  4. Re:Lifestyles of the rich and famous by totallygeek · · Score: 2, Funny
    Great. Now thanks to your subject line I'll have that Good Charlotte tune stuck in my head all day. ;)


    At first I was thinking Mr Leech. But, as soon as I typed it in, all I could think of was the song too. At least the Macarena has dropped out of my head...

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  5. OK, I'm having a little trouble here by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does an uber-geek get a "Lifetime Achievement Award", which implies having a life??

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  6. Re:Too soon perhaps ? by dirtydog · · Score: 5, Funny
    usually lifetime achievement awards are given to people that have "faded" and are old and useless
    If that were the case, surely ESR would have gotten his first.
  7. Re:Soap and...(ever? ever?) by gosand · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...women. Let's not forget women.

    Can you forget something which you have never known?

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  8. Forget them? by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do you mean? Geeks are downloading them all the time!

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  9. dot-org joke? by cerelib · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would somebody please clarify the final joke about dot-org's.

  10. Re:Soap? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nononono! It was a complement! The dot-orgs can't provide soap, because all the soap they had, they use themselves. That's what he meant. Or so I keep telling myself...

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  11. ARGH! Why did you have to say that word? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why oh why did you have to say that word?

    ARGH! ARGH! A-ah! A-a-aH, Macarena!