Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 07:14:34 -0800 | From | David Miller <> | Subject | misconstrued statements and an apology |
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I want to public apologize for calling Linus a "pinhead" on the list.
Just two or three years ago, the group here on this list still was of the size that everyone understood the healthy nicknaming between fellow hackers on the team.
This is not the case anymore, and I suppose I can't talk in this way when thousands of people are reading. So once again, I apologize personally to Linus, and to others here.
For those of you curious, yes, back in the day we did grow a penchant to refer to each other as "pinhead" in a friendly manner on the list from time to time. And in fact the joke became so out of control that to be called a pinhead was like being given Excalibur in the Linux community. Times have changed... Linux is getting so big that I almost can't be myself in public anymore.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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