Richard was here (universitat autrnoma de Barcelona) last Monday
http://www.uab.es/anycomputacio/
I went to his "talk", just out of curiousity.
It was interesting. Not what he said, which was the old same story
(and he dared to do it in Spanish, which made everything worse -my
English is way muuuuch better).
I say it was interesting because gnu/linux was the first thing I
discovered, when I left windows, some... 10? years ago (I was "using"
windows 3.11 last time I did) and I found incredible that you could
tell your computer to do something _you_ wanted.
I found everything amazing, and I became a fanboy of gnu/linux. Later
I saw The Light ;)
Well.. listening to Richard talking about the freedom of code etc, in
the way he did it: arriving 15 minutes later and making ~200 people
wait, burping and belching many times, because he had drunk two
teapots, and he also interrupted the talk asking aloud for a cloakroom
and explicitly asking a prof. to take him to it, not taking into
account that he had talked for more than two hours with long breaks
due to his insufficient expertise in Spanish etc etc... made me
thought of those years when I was a teenager.
I would very probably have loved "his way" (and I have to admit that
it's fine to be a bit rude from time to time to big bosses in general,
if you can afford it, but not to the students). But this time I
didn't.
(gnu)Linux is something like a teenager. It lacks maturity. That
"talk" was a wonderful metaphor of it.
I wonder... probably a bit of publicity of the like (a public talk,
but in a proper way) wouldn't hurt much to OpenBSD. I am almost sure
that it should not be a problem to invite somebody to give such a talk
and I, personally, would be very happy to see it happening...
anyway...
By the way, I love the small butts the nurses that are carrying the madgnu
wear
(in the last panel of the comic strip)
Pau Amaro Seoane
