I think it's high time we started lightining the overall mood in /General!

• Richard Stallman
• Linus Torvalds
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Patrick Volkerding(sp?)

What would you do if you met any one of these people, be it at some kind of convention/gathering, or just bumping into one of them on the street one day?

If you have met one of these people (as in actually walked up to them and said hello or whatever, not just seen them), please share your experiences!

I was thinking of making a famous scientists list, but I decided against it since it would probably just devolve into yet another science/religion flamewar. Plus which, I don't know of very many "high-profile"/"celebrity" scientists out there*.

Also, I apologize if this kind of thread has been done before. Please merge it with the other one if it has.

(* - When I say "out there", I mean currently. I wouldn't include people like Einstein, etc.)

I have VERY BRIEFLY talked to RMS (2-3 minutes). It was before his lecture in London a few months ago. I congratulated him on Emacs (I genuinely like it and use it quite a lot) and asked about his book that I then bought from him. That was it.

Nothing. They aren't that interesting. Now, john carmack would be another story.

I met Stallman in 2001 I was 14 years old and I told him that I'm developping softwares. He asked me if I've already hacked the kernel, I said no so he told me "You're not a developper !" lol

spring logout

+1 to that.

• Richard Stallman

Hello.

• Linus Torvalds

Hello

• Mark Shuttleworth

Hello

• Patrick Volkerding(sp?)

Praise Bob!

Hello, Richard/Linus/Mark/Patrick! It's an honour for you to meet me. WTF are you doing in Oldham?

Surely it'd be something more along the lines "Awreet mon, 'ow's thisel'?"

You can take the man out of Lancashire, but you can't take Lancashire out the man!!

Aye, thas reet thur, lad. Ah ad tuh put it in proper English fur all them as arn't sophisticated like as what I am. Dust see?

Aye, ah see wha yuz dun now; thas a clever sod thee.

Aye, thas reet agin. As me old mam used tuh say:"Eee, ahr Brian, if brains was dynamite, thas not gor enough tuh blow thi cap off!"

[offtopic]
/ˈæl.aʊ/, /wʌt.sɔlˈðɪs/ /ɛn/?


[/offtopic]

(Disclaimer: I don't really know very much IPA. I probably screwed this up majorly)

• Richard Stallman

"Nice GNU, emacs, hurd..." etc

• Linus Torvalds

"Nice kernel..." etc

• Mark Shuttleworth

"Nice space suit..." etc

• Patrick Volkerding(sp?)

"Nice distro..." etc

Ask him, can you donate me some money please,
I need a DSLR, and a macro lens too.

Eh?
I can't be bothered working out what that says. Translation, please?