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Mega-Geek March?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hurd-of-geeks-coming-through dept.

hammerm writes " According to an article on infoworld.com, 'A group of open source and free software developers is planning to lead a march on San Francisco's City Hall next week in an effort to promote the use of freely available software by California's government offices,' and it goes on to say 'it aims to bring attention to proposed legislation that would require California's government offices to use software with freely available source code rather than products from proprietary vendors such as Microsoft Corp.'"

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  1. Please don't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the one hand, this is persuasive. OTOH, the persuasion that occurs when hordes of smelly, pasty geeks all simultaneously shouting about guhnew this and kernel spinlock that and all staring at the secretaries tits is going to be "these guys really ARE menaces to society that should be locked away".

    1. Re:Please don't by Coffee+Warlord · · Score: 2, Funny

      And in other news...several thousand Bay Area computer professionals spontaneously combusted during their march. Experts speculate cause of death due to direct exposure to sunlight.

      One San Fransisco man noted, "I could not believe it. It was like they had never seen the sun before. There was this god forsaken hiss of pain, then they all just started melting!"

  2. This could be a trap... by LordZardoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps the motive is just to get a bunch of lazy programmers out from in front of their computers and walking around for exercise?

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  3. Geek March As Art by marko123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We could represent our method of writing software by walking just like Microsoft would, but more jerkily and occasionally falling over.

    Alternatively, we can march in two different directions, to simulate KDE and GNOME. Then the walkers in each direction can break into two directions, one for Free Software, and one for Open Source. Eventually, we will all be outside the city, separated, unable to hear each other, and blaming Microsoft for the situation :)

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  4. hrmm... by acehole · · Score: 2, Funny

    just dont do what I did, turned up to the wrong march and ended up marching for gay rights (not that there's anything wrong with that).

    Its hard to get across the message of open source when you're wearing drag....

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  5. Mega-Geek March by s20451 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that 10^6 geeks, or 2^20 geeks? Or some hybrid, like (10^3)*(2^10)?

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  6. KDE & Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The KDE guys start off first, but the Gnome group complains that the KDE people started off on their left foot, and they should have started on their right. So the Gnome people start off, and both groups are going in the same general direction. Occasionally, the two groups bump into each other, and for a little while it looks like they may march together, as one group. Eventually, though, they start stepping on each others toes, and the Gnome people complain that the KDE people are "walking wrong". So they split off into two groups again.

    Towards the end of the march, the KDE guys keep breaking into a sudden sprint, which leaves the Gnome people puffing to keep up.

    The Emacs & Vi people simply gun each other down at the start of the march, saving everyone a lot of trouble along the way.

  7. Re:How many will show up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I'm guessing more like 6 show up. The same 6 who boycotted Warcraft 3.

  8. Re:How many will show up? by Golias · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah. If hundreds show up, people will just assume it's the early line for Star Wars: Episode III.

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