I just finished watching the two-disc set of Revolution OS. If you enjoy history (especially history you can relate to), I highly recommend it. It has interviews with a lot of the early Linux pioneers, such as Linus, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens and many others. I believe I got my disc set from amazon.
There's a segment in there where they are taping at LinuxWorld ('92, I think) and they present Stallman with the Linus Torvalds award. That in itself is something, given some of the clashes through time. But the most "interesting part is Stallman accepts the award from Linus, then Linus slides away from the podium. While Stallman is talking, Linus walks behind him to back stage and retrieves his oldest daughter, then takes her past the podium and sits in an easy chair. Someone hoists Linus' younger daughter up on stage so they both can sit with him. Well what struck me as odd was the fact that the cameras ALL pulled off Stallman leaving him as simply a voice in the background, then they all focused on Linus and girls.
That itself makes me wonder if it was something to bother Stallman and even if it wasn't, if it DID bother him.
Craig.
Idaho / Mac OS X Snow Leopard / a plethora of old and new Mandrake
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