Day 4

Linus Torvalds Q and A.

Both Doc Searls and I brought minidisc recorders and tried to use them
to record the hours' worth of Q and A with Linus Torvalds. Only
difference was, mine worked and his did not. I talked with him briefly
about it and learned that while I had grabbed the instruction book and
carefully gone through it with the device, figuring out all of its
capabilities, he had promptly lost his instruction book and was not
even aware how to mark a track on his minidisc. This seems to me to be
an anthropological distinction between geeks and the rest of the world.

I shall attempt to make the recording I captured into an mp3, then
upload it to the web from here tomorrow afternoon or so with the help
of another conferee.  It looks
like this is a Do-able Thing.  

I spoke to Linus and he acknowledged his "Software is like sex.."
quote. He told me that the most damaging thing that he had heard was
when someone at the very first Linux conference had said in response
to him, "So. How do you know?".

Heh heh heh.