Aka Arjen's head ;-)
So this was at the conference dinner of Linux.conf.au 2009 in
Hobart Tasmania. There's always at least one auction, and for
some reason it has become tradition to a) bundle in extras with
the original auction item and b) for some of those extras to
involve removal of facial hair.
As described earlier, my hair was a package deal with Bdale
Garbee's beard, and it was later bundled with Linus Torvalds
turning into a barber for the day. So here's the fun in
action...
I think
Linus did a great job, having practiced previously only on his
dog (who did not like it). The organic kernel hack appears
bug-free, there was no bleeding, and I even have both my ears
still.
In this case it was all even fairly appropriate in "shave for a
cure" context, since the target …
Open Source is global in nature. You can develop a database in, say, Finland or Sweden, and become known in, say, Ukraine or the United States.
This would imply that Open Source knows no borders.
In practice, borders hamper Open Source work a lot. I have been familiar with the hassle involving MySQLers in Russia and the Ukraine trying to get Schengen (European Union) and US visas for meetings. And I have myself gone through a lot of hassle travelling to Russia and once even (out of my own stupidity and carelessness, though) been denied entry to India when I already was on Indira Gandhi airport in New Delhi.
But now, I’ve experienced what I had expected the least:
Several Sun Microsystems Inc employees, especially related to the Database Group, have been denied short stay business visas to Australia, over the last few months, …
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