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Linus Torvalds and the Linux Force Field
Last week I had the honor of hearing Linus Torvalds speak. He said he didn’t like to speak in public, but did a great job anyway. He spoke bluntly and passionately. I was at a work-related meeting, so the only camera I had was my little point and shoot. You can see the crappy picture it took. Dirk, Dave, and others had their nice DSLRs out. Guess that will teach me not to bring the camera. Turns out I brought it the next day, but that’s another blog post.
The meeting was an open source meeting. It’s interesting hanging out with some of the more passionate open source folks. Some of them live in their own little world, protected by the open source force field. I’m just glad the force field appears to have a door or two 
