From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 2 18:41:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A16737BDA1 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 18:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA08359; Wed, 3 May 2000 11:12:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:12:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad PR for the Linux camp Message-ID: <20000503111226.B8284@freebie.lemis.com> References: <390F23C8.B0C40C5@asme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <390F23C8.B0C40C5@asme.org> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message