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1. Kat Walsh Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

   @fontana @bkuhn proposed title: "Waiting for GNU"

   Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:17:53 UTC from web at Herndon, Virginia, United States
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     lnxwalt (lnxwalt280) Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

     @fontana @bkuhn Indeed. Educational, thought-provoking and interesting.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 04:02:47 UTC
   • joshix Richard Fontana

     @fontana Some fans would like change of sparring partners as in that match you punch way below your weight. No, it's not a self-nomination.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 04:12:47 UTC
   • Clacke Moved to Unlimited Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana , lnxwalt (lnxwalt280)

     @lnxwalt280 +1 @bkuhn @fontana

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 04:36:54 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn disturbing , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, I like how @mindspillage is calling them the "bkuhn & fontana dialogues". That is seriously feeding my ego in a !disturbing way.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 14:51:29 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn Rather "@bkuhn and @fontana TROLLops" :D

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 14:54:15 UTC
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   • Justin Washu O'Brien Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn will it be novel-a-tized... will there be a movie. who will kevin bacon play?

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 14:58:48 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Justin Washu O'Brien , Peter Cannon , Jono Bacon

     @threethirty Kevin Bacon will of course play @jonobacon, Patrick Steward will play @dickturpin.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 15:00:49 UTC
   • Tekk Has Moved Fabian Scherschel

     @fabsh identica: the movie?

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 15:02:50 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, I was fantasizing more re: idea of Free Software entusiasts hundreds of years from now reenacting the famous Fontana/Kuhn debates.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:12:43 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, it was that fantastical idea that led me to realize @mindspillage's comment sent my ego momentarily out of control.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:15:14 UTC
   • x1101 Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

     @bkuhn hundreds of years from now, there wont be Free Software enthusiasts, because all software will be free #optimism /cc @fontana

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:15:35 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @mindspillage, it's uncanny you say that, b/c I dreamed last night @fontana & I were trying to outdo each other quoting "Waiting for Godot".

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:19:48 UTC
   • x1101 Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn makes me want to setup 2 different festival voices, record them, and run it as a podcast!

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:20:42 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , Richard Stallman Political Notes , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, I agree. In fact, any !FaiF software name, other than @rms', being remembered in 100 years is highly unlikely. I'd bet 80-to-1.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:21:05 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, as for "no one" remembering RMS/Gosling debates,I admit I don't *remember* them (as in,I didn't read in real time),but I read them

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:22:18 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , Richard Fontana

     @fontana,but,when you lament !FaiF sw-historically-important events that ppl don't know,I must chastise you for procrastinating on our book.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:23:51 UTC
   • Kat Walsh Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn obviously, your subconscious is leaking information. You should make more of an effort to secure it.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:27:00 UTC
   • Windigo X11R5 , x1101

     @x1101 Sounds like the @x11r5 podcast.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:30:42 UTC
   • Simon Phipps Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Gosling's side of the story is interesting & enlightening & I encourage you to interview him.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:32:05 UTC
   • Rahul Sundaram Richard Fontana

     @fontana I suspect, a coherent story that connects the fact is what would be appealing about such a book. Not the facts themselves

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:32:31 UTC
   • Simon Phipps Richard Fontana

     @fontana They aren't even mentioned in the FaiF book. Author did not approach Gosling AFAIK.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 17:34:13 UTC
   • Lars Wirzenius Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn what are these rms/gosling debates? url?

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 20:17:55 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , Richard Stallman Political Notes , Simon Phipps , Richard Fontana

     @webmink, honestly the !FaiF biography of @rms was poorly researched. @fontana & I had discussed more general history of free software.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 21:37:08 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, not just my memory. Most all of the relevant people are still alive. We can interview them & write an amazing history book.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 21:38:52 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana , Osama Khalid

     @fontana, I would presume the Temporal Prime Directive means that even if @osamak is from the future, he can't tell us about that timeline.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 21:53:05 UTC
   • Fabian Scherschel Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn You're such a geek! LOL! :D

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 21:56:24 UTC
   • Simon Phipps Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn A friend and I have been considering a similar book (Java & Sun & stuff, don't worry!) Maybe we should pool research?

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 22:18:48 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Simon Phipps , Richard Fontana

     @webmink, we wouldn't be worried, as I somewhat feel @fontana's procrastination will keep us from starting. I'll let you know when we start.

     Monday, 13-Jun-11 22:20:57 UTC
   • Lars Wirzenius Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn people in computing have too little understanding of history -- I support the idea of a free software history book!

     Tuesday, 14-Jun-11 08:13:54 UTC
   • Clacke Moved to Unlimited Bradley M. Kuhn

     @ Are you saying @bkuhn is having @mindspillage?

     Monday, 20-Jun-11 02:24:34 UTC