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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
