LinuxWorld and linux.conf.au wrapups
In all the booths, there was a different tone of communication. The magicians and campy actors who had once populated the demo areas were replaced with business presenters earnestly communicating the advantages of their respective corporations."
Leon Brooks, meanwhile, has posted "A Triumphal
Wrapup" from linux.conf.au. "A penguin ambled out on-stage at
the opening session, and then off again. After a few minutes, Rusty
appeared with a penguin head under his arm. 'Ha, ha' said everyone, very
funny, Rusty wore a penguin suit, yay. Then when everyone was thoroughly
disarmed, Linus came back on in his usual casual way, wearing the headless
suit. It took a minute or two for the penny to drop for quite a few people,
but the cheers came.
"
Posted Jan 27, 2003 17:34 UTC (Mon)
by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
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Anyway - the love must have been flowing. I just wonder if the author will regret this paragraph in the morning!
The linux.conf.au wrapup: Reality distortion field alert
There are important messages in this: attack Linus, says the fine print, and Linux will thunder on regardless but you? You will have millions of people around the world on your case. Linux is everybody, not just Linus. Perhaps this is a reason why the Torvalds family can act like the nice people they are, not cordoned off behind press agents and security people. Linus is one hacker among a loose brotherhood of equals, a common elite, the kind of relationship with many religions and political systems have striven for and fallen short of.
This takes the cake for aggrandizement and succinctly demonstrates the "warp factor" of these kind of conferences. The LKML is a brotherhood composed of a common elite succeding where religion and politics have failed? (: