Re: LinuxWorld

[Paul Nathan Puri <publisher@ompages.com>]

I was able to shoot down to SJ to make the last 2 hours of the exhibits.
The RedHat, LinuxCare, and Compaq booths were all very flashy and cool.

I was gawking at this really cool Compaq display, when I realized the
crowd was not for the servers, but for Linus.  Very Cool.  I didn't get an
autograph because I'm not comfortable idolizing people.  But it was great
to see him there.  

Rob Malda struck me as being a little full of himself, but I guess he has
a right to be since slashdot is what it is.  I asked him how much he's
selling the T-Shirts for, and he said he doesn't handle marketing.
OK-then....  Whatever, I saw the much cooler Debian guys there, Wichert is
a real stand up cat... 

I was excited about Wordmarc, a unix based console word processor wp clone
thing.  The guy said their going to overhaul the license, I think that
their gonna GPL it (I hope).  Abi-Word by Abi-Source is looking good too;
the guy said a debian cat is going to package it... cool...

I had to run back to Sacramento and write a paper for tomarrow, but it was
a really really cool deal... Later...

NatePuri
Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
publisher@ompages.com
http://ompages.com

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> Had a really cool funny at Linux World ... met Linus at the end of the
> aisle signing stuff for people. My friend digs around in his pocket
> for something and whips out a CD for Linus to autograph. He hands it over
> and laughter rips through the crowd. My friend's face grows red as he
> realised that he just gave Linus Torvalds a SCO UnixWare CDROM to sign.
> Linus takes it all in stride and signs it "I hope you get better". I had
> to drag my friend back down the aisle to the Debian booth to "touch the
> MAC" for redemption (don't ask ... you just had to be there).
> 
> It was really great seeing a lot of the Debian folks there along with such
> folks as the Slashdot crew in the booth next door. Even finally getting to
> talk with people from other distros that I had email contact with (such as
> some of the people from Red Hat) was a real gas.  I can't wait until the
> reprise in August.
> 
> Linus gave a great speach and the party in Exhibit Hall 3 is probably
> still going on. The Linux community is really a great bunch of people. I
> heard vendors commenting that they were really amazed at the crowd. The
> quality of the questions they were being asked, the level of technical
> expertise and the fact that they were speaking with people that REALLY
> understood the technologies of this stuff was really a refreshing change
> to them.
> 
> I am proud to associate myself with this community of computer users and
> with the Debian community in particular.  Nice job to all. I think it is a
> really great show.
> 
> 
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