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Linus Goes Hollywood At Pre-Oscars Party
alphadogg writes "For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network, you'll be heartened to know that the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people at Saturday's pre-Oscars Night Before Party in Beverly Hills. Torvalds blogged about the Oscars party experience Monday, recounting a series of awkward encounters with movie stars."
the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds
Ahh, good old Linux Torvalds. I wonder if he brought his son Android, Andy for short.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Good lord...
He mentions asking people "Who are you?" and 'recounts' (mentions) only two specific encounters.
Not at all the titillating and medium-long read that the summary promises.
"For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network"
Well stop sending scripts in EMACS and insisting that Hollywood attach them to the end credits. Pilots in theora don't help either.
I've met a few famous people and, unless they spend a lot of time being famous for just being themselves, they really don't look or act a lot like the characters they play and are famous for. Take them out of context and you'll hesitate before calling them by name.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
So it's not close to being in Hollywood with the movie stars, but I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble, Linus is it. He's a nice guy; it's great to see him get to do things like this from time to time.
Warning: goatse is NSFW!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I actually posted the above comment. For some reason i couldn't login from my iphone. Now that's a story Taco not this gossip rag this submission is turning /. Into.
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"We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis..."
Too bad Linus was not familiar enough with B list movie stars to recognize Spade and slap him. I'll never get those hours back from Joe Dirt.
One care bear is available for each person that actually cares
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I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble
It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Next thing you know he'll be in the tabloids rumored to have snorted blow off Lindsay Lohan's ass.
I'm pretty sure that technically it is in-fact news. Obviously not the kind that everyone is interested in.
In any case CmdrTaco posted this particular FA, I would suspect he would know what does and doesn't belong on /.
Was I the only one geeky enough to be pleased at the sight of KDE 3.x on "Zuckerberg's" laptops in the movie?
Why do you think that the My Little Pony franchise was resurrected a few short years later? Slashdot brought forth ponies into the modern era.
I sit in my office (which used to be in the basement, now it's a room above the garage)
I think he should get out of there now, before it moves even further
Nullius in verba
"Linux," by itself is the kernel. That's why Stallman makes the distinction between Linux and GNU/Linux. So he is in fact the father of Linux.
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Seriously, this is not news.
So we wait until Linux goes all Charlie Sheen?
(Or Hans Reiser of you prefer a geek meme.)
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
And they would have had a kernel first if Stallman didn't spend all of his time working on Emacs.
In his defense, Emacs is at least twice as powerful as most operating system kernels. :-)
And since the terrible, terrible visual update to Slashdot they've lost the `news for nerds - stuff that matters` tag. And not before time; this story, like so many others here recently, is neither.
I even have a picture of myself and Linus
You do realize you just said you're the goatse guy, right?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble
It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.
Actually most of them are. I'm sorry to suck the fun out of this well-established generalization, but this reputation is something that scared me when I first started working on movies. Instead of working with egotistical prima donnas like I expected, instead I met a lot of kind people who were eager to help me out. Maybe it's just because they're nice people or maybe it's just because movie making only really works when people work as a team. Couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, he's going to implement GNU Hurd in Lisp as a module of Emacs
oh wait...
how long until
Not just movie stars? There, I said it.
I heard Charlie Sheen was doing coke in the back room whereas Linus, the party boy, had brought his own stash of Jolt.
j'ai découvert une démonstration vraiment admirable (de ce théorème général) que cette si
This is like some sort of tabloid shit.
What's a 'Tabloid'? Oh, is that the new marketing name for a tablet running Android?
Don't despair. I'm sure I saw Ballmer there.
No, wait. That was Shrek. Never mind.
Have gnu, will travel.
I have found that ego is usually inverse proportional to talent. It's those who are mostly inept who seem to have the biggest chip on their shoulders. While there is a lot of BSing in hollywood there is also a lot of talented professionals who only got to where they are through a lot of hard work and experience. Such a brutal thinning process of reputation/skill tends to weed out the egotistical assholes more than something like accounting where you just have to impress the HR person.
It's such a small industry that if you're an asshole and you are replaceable you probably won't have someone vouch for you on the next project.
A kernel with no applications to provide resources to does what exactly? When your average person calls Linus the "father of linux" they don't know that there is such a thing as a Kernel. They consider him 'the father of windows' just like Bill Gates is 'the father of DOS.' They have no idea that there are different components. Attributing the body of work of literally hundreds of thousands of developers to a single person is NOT ok.
Which "average person"s are you referring to?
I strongly suspect that Taco is aware of the Linux vs. GNU naming controversy. In fact, I strongly suspect that almost everyone on Slashdot is aware.
Whether or not "average people" understand the role of a kernel in an OS is entirely irrelevant to whether or not Linus Torvalds is the originator of the Linux kernel.
So here's a radical idea: rather than try to browbeat other geeks to whom few people listen into using your preferred nomenclature, why don't you try putting that nomenclature out into general use? The people who already know what you have to say are not only unlikely to care and likely to find you annoying, but almost completely irrelevant. The bar on promotion to the general populace is extremely low, so it really shouldn't be tough for the GNUbies to clear if they really want to make a meaningful contribution.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...
That's an odd response to what I said. I'm not Hollywood's biggest talent agent.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, the people who are nice get more work. Its pretty obvious when Directors are always casting the same actors in all their movies. How many Tim Burton Movies don't have Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham-Carter? How many Ridley Scott movies have Russel Crowe in them? On the other side, how many Steven Speilberg movies have Julia Roberts? Only one, because Speilberg Didn't get along well with Roberts.
Yeah if you're a big name Actor you'll still get work even if you're an asshole, but there will be some big name directors that will refuse to work with you. And thats not helping your career much.
No, GNU-slash-Linux is not a distinction...it is a moniker he asks people to use because he rightfully wants the GNU Project to get the recognition it deserves. When people colloquially refer to "Linux", they are referring to a complete operating system (i.e. GNU-slash-Linux). The entire concept of a free-as-in-speech operating system was pioneered by Stallman. The GPL was created by Stallman. Linux (the kernel) would not have been free if the GPL hadn't come first. People (except the Debian folks) drop the GNU/ because it doesn't roll off the tounge quite so well as just saying "Linux". And others, such as our friends at Canonical, drop the word "Linux" altogether. None of this changes the reality of what Stallman created.
the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people
From the blog:
Everybody seemed to take [us walking up to familiar looking people and asking them who they were] in good cheer. We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis (that's what Tove says, I was oblivious - it's those famous geek social graces again. I told her I'm sure I'd have noticed Natalie Portman and that she can't possibly have been there, but whatever), and Tove pissed off Warren Beatty by asking his name not just once, but twice.
So. Who is this, Linux Torvalds anyway?
No, I mean, who is this Linux Torvalds anyway?
You can't handle the truth.
That is of course the word in the MIT staffroom when RMS was asked "how is Hurd going lately" which is why we had the stupid LiGnuX and GNU/Linux naming storms in a teacup. It's petty academic politics that escaped into the real world.
Most of the twisted definition of an OS used in the GNU/Linux idea came from the definition of an OS the Judge threw out in the Microsoft vs Netscape case.
If you are going to use the stupid "father" idea you are going to have to make RMS the father of every project that uses the GPL because that's really been the main contribution.
Yup yup. For some time now, we've grown accustomed to sloppily calling the whole OS "Linux", and maybe we should let language evolve how it evolves and accept that the common usage is what defines it.
It has led to the funny situation that we hear that Android is not *really* Linux (as in GNU/X11/Linux), while it technically does have the kernel underneath.
Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
Free food, man; probably very well prepared. Free booze, too; probably including grand scotch whiskys that I can't afford.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
"It doesn't roll off the tongue quite so well" is quite an understatement. I do realize the FSF stance on the issue (although, where do you draw the line - should my disrtibution be GNU/Linux/x.org/KDE?), but seeing "Revolution OS" was quite enlightening - people actually pronounce it as "GNU-slash-Linux", which is really, really retarded. Marketing has always been an issue with free software, and while "Linux" might not be the sexiest term out there, it's certainly easier to sell than "GNU-slash-Linux".
What? I thought everyone had a Charlie Sheen in them...?
This is blinging
My point was that startups are, for the most part, unproven and unprofitable, so people working for them overcompensate by being a bit egotistical. I say this as someone who's been kicking around the "Silicon Alley" startup culture for a while; I've seen it a few times.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein