Trolled by Microsoft's Lennart Poettering and Bought by Wintel

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-10-04 00:41:44 UTC
Modified: 2022-10-04 10:02:43 UTC

Torvalds pointing

Torvals award

Summary: Last week's public appearance by Torvalds seemed reluctant and a tad embarrassing (the media pointed out the awkwardness, too); whose idea was that, the Linux Foundation's?

Used for marketing by Intel last week:

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Trolling by Microsoft's Lennart Poettering a decade ago:

Video download link | md5sum 39c71c961410d5ff77c6d2e547b01df4 Lennart Poettering versus backward compatibility or API stability Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

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