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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:38 PM
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Torvalds for President
Who's with me?
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oviedodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:39 PM
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1. Yeah! OSS & NIX for all!
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:41 PM
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2. Hear hear!
:)
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:41 PM
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3. Can't.... just like Arnie, not a natural-born citizen...
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:45 PM
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4. Yeah, yeah. Amend the Constitution
If he can handle the Kernel mailing list, he can handle Congress. We'll make Theo VP and Lessig AG.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:46 PM
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5. If nothing else, press conferences would be must-see TV
He'd piss off half the country one day, the other half the next. Dude's not one for tempering his opinions.
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Lithos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:46 PM
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6. What about ERS and Stallman?
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andym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 03:47 PM
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7. Torvalds
Smart, experienced, lived in foreign lands, outsider (Finnish), great manager-- knows how to build consensus and yet has a strong opinion of what is right (at least for the kernel).
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-11-08 04:08 PM
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8. Only with Richard Stallman as VP. nt
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