Linus' visit, was: InkScape

[Ted Roche]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> After some announcements, suitable heckling, and the obligatory
>>> protector fussing
>> It strikes me that the obligatory protector fussing ...
> 
>   Next time you make a typo, you're going *down*.  Payback's a bitch.  ;-)
> 
>>> In the tradition of holiday re-runs, this will be a showing of a
>>> video recording of Linus's talk at UNH, circa 1996/1997.
>> I think this was either 94 or 95.
> 
>   It wasn't any earlier than 1995, because I was still an undergrad,
> and I didn't begin at UNH until Fall 1995.  I think it was 1996, but
> couldn't swear to it.
> 
>   Unless Linus came to UNH more than once??
> 

Our web-based source of misunderstandings, the TWiki, claims it was
31-Jan-1996, doubtful, rather late (or early) for baseball. The BLU
records a visit to Boston by Linux in May of 1995:

http://www.blu.org/meetings/1995/05/meeting_report.html

http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PastEvents

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