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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:18:11 -0500
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux needs new leadership.
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:00:59PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <20020331225641.GA1653@werewolf.able.es>
> By author:    "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > So think on all non-anglo-saxon people reading the list....
> > I took me some time to associate 2002.04.01 with jokes...


> April Fool's Day (1 april) is quite popular in Scandinavia, for
> example.  At least in Sweden, even the so-called "legitimate news
> media" get into it, usually with exactly one fake story per
> publication/news program.  The day after the newspapers usually let
> you know which one it was, and what other newspapers did :)

	Linus seems to like to put that extra special effort into
his annual presentations.  I remember a couple years back when he
hit us with one from Finland (ok, several years back) that was just
a few SECONDS after midnight, his local time (GMT?).  It meant that
most of us here in the burbs (US) got caught before it was April 1,
our time.  It's that special touch that endears him to us and got him
threatened with bodily harm...  >;-/=/

	I don't recall that he ever did tell us if he sat up all night
hovering over the send key or if he lit off a cron (at) job to do his
dirty work...  With the proven reliability of his creation, I guess he
could have slept well that night and merely awoke to the havok he
triggered...

> 	-hpa

> -- 
> <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
> "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
> http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>

	Mike
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