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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. Uhh.... by smoondog · · Score: 2, Troll

    I battle word, excel, powerpoint and window 2000 everyday. Does this mean I'm finally going to win?

    -Sean

  2. Truly outrageous by none2222 · · Score: 1, Troll


    Independence day allows us to look back on the sacrifices our forefathers made to keep America free. I don't appreciate seeing it trivialized to further some partisan hippy cause. "Free software" types are clearly, in many cases, not on the side of Freedom (except when it comes to smoking pot). We need only look at their response to the Microsoft "anti-trust" case, or the victim-control mentality they exhibit so often on sites like this one. I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I'm even less of a fan of government intrusion. I recommend everybody read Atlas Shrugged to see how Gates should have handled things, if he wasn't such a pansy.

    Bottomline: don't trivialize independence day.
    Take the opportunity to start working for real change: less government intrusion, less taxes, fewer regulations, more freedom. Those are your birthrights, secured with the blood of our ancestors. Don't let them down by falling for this hippy crap instead.

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  3. ironic? by ross.w · · Score: 2, Troll

    Doesn't anyone find it ironic that people hate Microsoft for much the same reasons that people from Microsoft's own country hated England?

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