Apologies if this site seems to be becoming more about clothing/baggage than about IT!
This T-shirt is a fairly recent acquisition, from the Energex/SPARQ TCE Project that I have written about before:
This one is a lot older:
It was given to me by one of the Enhydra guys in December 1999 at the Linux/Open Source Bazaar, Jacob K. Javits Centre, New York. I was presenting a 2-day tutorial session on Linux (RedHat 5.2).
My “body clock” was exactly 12 hours out of alignment but it was a lot of fun. For example: the organisers arranged for us to have free, unfettered access to the famous FAO Schwartz Toy Store for a night…the perfect entertainment for a bunch of geeks! Another choice moment: watching the audience practically boo Corel CEO Michael Cowpland (I think; might have been RedHat CEO Bob Young….my jet-lagged memory is a little hazy here but it keeps pushing a fedora at me…) offstage for daring to suggest that Linux would eventually have to be commercialised and become a money-making product before it could actually “rule the world.” Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond were practically having fits, as were many of the faithful in the audience. How times have changed…
This was pretty much the first ‘real’ Transentia engagement, so this T-shirt really does bring back a favourite memory.
