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1. Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

   @fontana, So, I sought my 1st comp.os.linux posts: ur1.ca/4xj0l & ur1.ca/4xj0o . I'd clearly recently given up Coherent: http://ur1.ca/4xj0v

   Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:30:40 UTC from web
   • Osama Khalid Richard Fontana

     @fontana, thanks for live-denting!

     Wednesday, 17-Aug-11 23:28:03 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn IBM Group , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, unfortunately, #OIN is in bed with one of those companies: !IBM. People forget it's the biggest #swpats troll there is.

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:04:24 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, hmm, that sounds like a fundraising pitch for lawyers wrapped in the trappings of a political statement. I'm #dubious.

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:05:19 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, how did that come up? Anyway,that's rather late, no? After all, if one was on #Usenet reading comp.*, Linux was old news by 1993.

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:08:56 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Linux , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, I'm surprised these folks on the panel learned about !Linux so late. I'd have thought maddog was involved earlier than that.

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:13:55 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana,my 1st programming job was working w/my father. His username: kuhn. Mine: bkuhn. Other devs called me "b": the diff btw me & my dad

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:39:57 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana,I used to regret nickname never stuck,honestly;I wasn't even bothered when people pointed out me it sounded like woman's name "Bea"

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:40:55 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software & Culture Group , disturbing , Richard Fontana

     @fontana,also,apparently,I made an early call for stable release distributions. !Disturbing that I confused !FaiF w/commercial: ur1.ca/4xja3

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:46:31 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     @jargon, interestingly, it was the only time in my career I worked on a software project in close physical proximity to the other developers

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 00:54:07 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     @jargon, don't think that way! I thought that way for years & it kept me intimidated from submitting patches to projects. Just try it!

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 01:00:08 UTC
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   • Rahul Sundaram

     @jargon That is undoubtedly not true. There must be a few things you can help out with any large software project.

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 01:18:56 UTC
   • Marjolein Katsma

     @jargon agree with @bkuhn: just do it!

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 04:48:12 UTC
   • Michael Dexter

     @bkuhn I used #Coherent for awhile on a 386 that a friend literally found in the street. #geezer

     Thursday, 18-Aug-11 08:10:16 UTC