With that in mind, the crowd seemed to be on their best behaviour and there wasn't a hint of anything untoward from them.
But the Frenchman - whose most notable contribution to the night was falling over while completely unmarked to good-natured cheers from the crowd - did not seem to mind.
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But the Slim crowd had more than business on its collective mind.
In the meantime, Swindle doesn't mind being the lone voice in the crowd.
Even as thousands cheered the dignitaries arriving at the Nairobi sports stadium, some in the crowd had Kenya's past violence on their mind.
There is a discussion about how the younger generation has less resistance to strong collaboration than the over-35 crowd does, but there is no doubt in my mind that fear is holding back collaboration at every company.
Sitting on a panel here yesterday at the ISPCon trade show with the Red Hat CEO, his new investor friends, a local TV anchorwoman and a devoted crowd singing his praises, Torvalds certainly didn't mind the attention, nodding playfully at suggestions that he was approaching "God-like" status among developers.
Even then Nokia have captured the mind share and the plaudits of the Windows Phone 8 crowd.
"You can't be giving out awards and not have the success of American Idol in mind, and all its attendant buzzwords like democratization and crowd-sourcing, " he says.
The coastal cliffs are home to a mind-boggling array of seabirds, including the ultimate crowd-pleasers: the divinely comedic puffins that arrive for the breeding season in April and depart for warmer climes in mid-August.
Never mind the morality of what brought the parties to court, the law-and-economics crowd said: The courts are a mechanism for shoving the costs on the parties best suited to pay them.
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