Personally, the most interesting thing about that event was groklaw. (http://www.groklaw.net/index.php) It is hard now to reconstruct the experience of having a website dedicated to something I cared passionately about. Groklaw is an example, in my opinion, of what the internet could be, should be and isn't. A website that provided a community for people with a common cause.

I don't mean to diminish the importance of Linux at all.