Whats all this about “Linuxs coming-out party” being LinuxWorld Expo?
“This is Linux’s coming-out party” — Mark Jarvis of Oracle, in his keynote “This is Linux’s coming-out party” — Linus Torvalds, in his keynote “What, is it gay?” — Rick Moen, during Linus’s keynote You may have heard talk that Linux was “outed” by the radically queer activist *BSDs, who felt that Linux was doing a disservice to other gay operating systems by acting as if it is “shameful” or “wrong” for an OS to be gay. There was talk that Linux wasn’t providing a strong gay role model to younger gay operating systems. This is distinctly untrue. The *BSDs have been very supportive of Linux during this difficult time, providing Linux with pamphlets and other resources as well as an open socket at the other end of the Ethernet cable when Linux was going through some kernel panics late at night trying to deal with these confusing new emotions. True, they were particularly emphatic in encouraging Linux to “come out,” but there was no threat or force involved. Linux first started understa
