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Checkout day started

Published on Sat 25 of Jun, 2005

So, there it is - last day of LinuxTag, time to leave came way faster than I thought.

Social event yesterday was great! That was the bunch of geeks hanging around. No wonder johann__ and his folks weren't there, they are definately not cool enough for such a party! ;)
We had a lengthy talk with a WINE guy and we will meet later on, so that he can explain me in detail about WINE/Cedega, etc.

With the guys of "Team Gentoo" I had some chat about Drobbins, the founder of Gentoo, going to Microsoft and some Gentoo-specifics. That was pretty interesting, especially to hear, that even they fear #emerge --depclean. ;)

The Drobbins story is very interesting. Everybody seems to be very ok with it. Yesterday I asked very carefully: "May I ask your hatequestion the first? Why did Drobbins go to Microsoft?" - "Naa, it's no hatequestion..." I was slightly surprised by this attitude and decided to try it with other people, too. So today I told what I asked the Gentoo people at the Mayflower booth and I couldn't end my sentence. They immediately kicked in: "Hey, that's normal! What would you do? You got a wife and children and then you get such a job offer! It doesn't change anything! Gentoo will stay free and Microsoft closed!"

But the best of this whole thing is to see how Open and Free FOSS-people are!

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Born, went to school, started hacking on free software, did some major high availability sysadmin work in between, now back to my original passion: managing knowledge. :) -- Long CV

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