Re: Linux's 5th birthday

Robert Ellis (re2@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:15:16 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 msmith@quix.robins.af.mil wrote:

> > > > Just to remind everyone. Today, Sept 17, is Linux's 5th birthday. So
> > > > happy birthday to all on the list. Thanks go out to Linus and all the
> > > > other hard-working maintainers for 5 wonderful fast paced years!
> >
> > > In America we have a tradition, birthday licks (better known as spanking).
> > > Soooo.., Linus? Quick, someone grab him, I'll get the paddle!!
> >
> > Take it to alt.sex.bondage, guys.
>
> Gack, you guys are pulling me into the gutter. :P
>
> Ok, let me clarify that this was not the "American tradition" that
> I was referring to. I hope my harmless post doesn't turn into headlines:
>
> "In other news, a little known programmer was charged with a sexual
> harassment suit by the genius kernel hacker, Linus Torvalds. This
> is the first known example of ICSA (Inter-Continental Sexual Harassment).
> Bill Gates comments, '" This is the sort of thing that proves freeware
> OS hacking is deteriorating our moral fiber, if Linus had been using
> the Microsoft Network this would not have happened...."'"
>
>
> Melvin
>
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