> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ira Abramov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:46 PM
> To: What do you want to do tommorow?; Israeli Group of Linux Users
> Subject: Re: Celebrities talk
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> > for other newbies out there, here's a list of other people and
> > characters in this ongoing saga you "should" all know, these are the
> > people at the media, Free Software, Open Source and linux community
> > focus...
> >
>
> people I forgot in that list:
>
> Patrick Volkerding
> Ian Murdock
> Tim Sailer
>
> there are ofcourse lots of other names, but I'll stop here :-)
Tom christiansen
Randal Schwartz
Guido Van Rossum
Tim Peters (the only windows programmer demi-god)
K&R
Donald Knuth
Ken Thompson
Rob Malda et al.
I wasn't aware we have so many celebreties!
BTW. a totally unrelated comment:
Niven & Pournell wrote a pretty nifty book called "fallen angles" as a
tribute to the Fandom community.
Its a bit hard to read if you don't know the jargon, but there is a fun
reference there:
"I'm not the only hacker in fandom, there's Ted Marshals, and then there's
RMS..."
"who's RMS?"
"you know EMACS?"
"The programmers text editor? sure I use it"
"He wrote it. no one knows anything about him except he's initials... he's
been wanted since the invantion of the computers... hackers will do whatever
he tells them"
<Wide Grin>
I think I enjoy this off-topic conversation too much :-)
You are right Ira, I am a geek (geekette). I actually called the FSF the
other day (the answer the phone saying "Free software" to ask how much will
I have to donate if I want a t-shirt with RMS signature. (I cann't afford
it, but if someone here have 10,000$ to spare... :-)
Chen Shapira
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