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Windependence Day

Posted by michael on from the man-is-born-free-and-everywhere-he-is-in-chains dept.

An unknown reader points us to the Windependence Day contest sponsored by DesktopLinux. Cute idea, and I'm sure some people have exciting stories of battling the talking paperclip...

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  1. Misnomer by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about a Sundependence Day? Or a Vaxdependence Day? Or a Aixdependence Day?

    More systems are leaving traditional Unix for Linux than are leaving Windows for Linux.

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  2. It Isn't Really All That Hard by John+Hasler · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Except for a few months in 1996 when I had a NT box on loan from a customer (didn't care for it) my home and business have always been Windows-free (and Apple-free as well).

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    Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
  3. Re:Windependance != Freedom, it seems by Our+Man+In+Redmond · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It brings to mind what I believe is a translated polish proverb:

    A change of leaders is the joy of fools.

    Yeah, we have a proverb like that in English too:

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    I chuckled when I heard the bad guy saying this in "The Sum Of All Fears" but I didn't know just how deeply Pete Townshend's line had worked itself into the linguistic landscape until I did this search.

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