From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: USENET Readership report for Feb 93 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 05:06:38 GMT
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>PS. I heard today that I had been nominated for the EFF (Electronic
>Frontier Foundation) Pioneer award. While I didn't get it (bummer), I
>appreciate the thought of whoever nominated me. Thanks.
On a related note, this article showed up in alt.folklore.computers
recently:
rogerj@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Diversion (Jeff Rogers)) writes:
>I'm sure this is a subject that has been discussed at great length, but
>since I missed all the posts on it (I presume), I bring it up:
>How many computer gods/demigods read usenet? By this, I mean people who have
>done major projects like designing programming languages, operating systems,
>major applications, etc. Two who I'm aware of are Linus Torvaldus (sp?)
>(author of Linux) and Bjarne Strousup (sp? again) (designer of C++).
Isn't this a thrill, Linus? Two years ago, you didn't even own a PC, and now
you are a God. Congrats....
Bernie