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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 11:12:26 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bad PR for the Linux camp
Message-ID:  <20000503111226.B8284@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <390F23C8.B0C40C5@asme.org>
References:  <390F23C8.B0C40C5@asme.org>

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On Tuesday,  2 May 2000 at 13:51:53 -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Some students here were preparing an event to celebrate the birthday of
> their University. These students contacted Linus Torvalds and invited
> him to be the main guest of the event.
>
> Some FreeBSD users were tempted to go. I had completely forgotten the
> event, but the newspaper commented today that Linus never arrived.
>
> No details were known, but this kind of accidents don't open new space
> for "Opensource". It's also a shame because bigger local Universities
> will think twice before inviting him.

Did he in fact accept the invitation?

Greg
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