[NTLUG:Discuss] Where is Bruce Perens? (Was: Toy Story 2 - Is 'Wheezy' really Tux?)

Kurt Watkins kurtw at ticnet.com
Mon Dec 13 18:34:20 CST 1999


On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Kendall Clark wrote:
> >>>>> "jms" == Johnie Stafford <jms at pobox.com> writes:
> 
>     >>>> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:26:23 -0600 (CST), Kendall Clark
>     >>>> <kclark at ntlug.org> said:
>     >>>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> writes:
>     Steve> So does anyone have any contacts at Pixar?
> 
>     Steve> There has been some debate about whether the Penguin in Toy
>     Steve> Story 2 is intended to be Tux or not - and if so, what is
>     Steve> the intended symbolism?
> 
>     kc> Ask Dan Lyke, he'll know for sure. He works at Pixar and is a
>     kc> wily Unix hacker. I think he's got credits in both TS and TS2.
> 
>     kc> danlyke at flutterby.com
> 
>     jms> So does/did Bruce Perens of Debian. I'm not sure if he's
>     jms> still there, but I remember way back in the olden days of
>     jms> Linux, before the Debian project got going, seeing mail from
>     jms> bruce at pixar.com on the Linux mailing lists.
> 
> 
> Bruce is gone from Pixar, afaict. I don't know how long though. He
> just became the CEO of Linux Capital Group, a VC firm to fund Linux
> startups. Apparently their first funding will go to Ian Murdoch, of
> Debian fame, to start a company to create a commercial version of
> Debian.
> 
> <Kendall/>

You can find Bruce at the imaginative address bruce at perens.com.

K.




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