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From: hafner@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: people you meet in the train ...
Date: 12 Sep 1995 07:28:58 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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Hi there,
just wanted to tell you a little story that happened to me yesterday on
my way back from work:
I was sitting in the train from Munich to Augsburg (trip of about half
an hour) reading a book. Then I noticed an American accompanied by a
German that looked like he guided him. The german looked slightly
familiar to me (Bernhard Schneck? Yes? No?).
Next thing I realized was, that the American probed a talk with his
guide as "audience". About computers, programmers (good/bad), operating
systems (good/bad), consultants (...) and so on. It was very
entertaining and I found that I shared most of his views. I had to grin
a few times widely what he surely saw. From then on he looked over to
me once and then.
Then he mentioned BSDI a few times and something like he doesn't run
around, telling everyone that he was peresident of an operating system
company. Oops, I thought to myself.
I leaned over to them, told him how I enjoyed his talk and asked him
after his name. Jup, it was Rob Kolstad, just as I thought. And he was
very kind, too. Even as I told him that I was a close friend of Thomas
Roell and what I think of the shared libs in BSD/OS 2.0, the reason I
switched to FreeBSD (Jup! I was very dissapointed of 2.0 after the
_great_ 1.1 version) :-)
He mentioned that they were on their way to the GUUG (German Unix User
Group) meeting in Wiesbaden, where Rob wanted to hold the talk he probed
in the train.
Bad thing was, that it was only 5 minutes left until Augsburg and I had
to leave. And today I have to work and can't visit the GUUG meeting. :-(
But I've heared most of his talk anyway. :-)
Funny, what people you meet in german trains ... at least I never had
thought of such a coincidence. :-)
Once again greetings to Rob Kolstad and the rest of the BSDI crew. Great
guys, I'm sure. If they only had a decent shared lib implementation
... ;-)
-Walter
PS: And a bow to the FreeBSD core team of course!
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