Open source -- non computer topics

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat May 4 14:38:17 2002

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, James B. DiGriz wrote:

> kept between the lines. Kinda hard to do that when people single you out
> for public comments about your personal hygiene.

Oh come on, if I sat there and picked my nose and ate my boogers in front
of the assembled VCF crowd, you'd be sure to hear comments about it.

Hell, I'D bring that up if it was not me doing it.

> A lot of people *don't*, or maybe don't want to understand all this and
> see any intransigence that can be portrayed as irrelevant or anti-social
> in some way as a sign of compulsive, fascistic, control-freak tendencies
> and ego problems. There are people in the open-source movement even who

All I remember is that when I met Stallman at Linux World in San Jose a
couple years ago, he was a complete dick, whereas Eric Raymond was way
cool, and Linus Torvalds, even though he seemed a bit agitated because he
probably had a very busy schedule and had his wife and two kids at his
side to tend to, still took the time to pose with me for a picture.

http://www.siconic.com/crap/sellam_and_richard.jpg
http://www.siconic.com/crap/eric_and_sellam.jpg
http://www.siconic.com/crap/sellam_and_linus.jpg

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