Meeting Notes: SLUG / 8 Oct / InkScape

Jon 'maddog' Hall maddog at li.org
Wed Oct 10 19:20:17 EDT 2007


> Loan?  Heh heh heh.  To whom, and where, did he return said "loaned"
> products to ? ;)

Linus asked me if he would ever have to return the system.  I looked him
straight in the eye and said that in all the years I had worked with
Loan-of-products I had never heard of a system coming back.  Some
systems may have come back, I just had not heard of it.

David Mossberger, an early Alpha Linux developer who did a lot of work
on the libraries and other things, also got a "loan of products" of a
system in 1995.  In 2001 he wanted to return the system.  Since he then
worked for HP, and HP had just announced the purchase of Compaq, I told
him to just hold onto the system and it would soon be "returned".

As to the Linus visit to UNH, it could well have been either later or
earlier that the FSF conference happened, and we all went to the ball
game.  It was probably in May of 1995, which would still be cool enough
for Linus and Tove to be wearing jackets in the shadows of Fenway.  For
two people born in Helsinki, Finland, they REALLY hate the cold.

On the other hand, there was definitely a working Alpha at the UNH event
from DCG, and that could not have happened before the release of the Red
Hat distribution (November 1995).  So it looks like we are zeroing in on
January, 1996 for the UNH meeting.  The issue is that I doubt that I
would have gotten Linus to come to New England just to do UNH, so I am
wracking my brain trying to think what else was going on in the area
if the FSF conference was in May of 1995 and USENIX was in June of 1994.
As much as I love and respect UNH, there must have been some other
conference or draw of some type.

I had the bulldog temporary tattoos made up (created by one of the
Digital Unix documentation people) and that was early-on after the
release...so the January, 1996 date fits for UNH.  I only made up one
run of the Bulldog...later we replaced it with the Extreme Linux
tattoos "Its hot, and its cool".

Wow, trying to remember this stuff makes my head hurt.

md



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