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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".

  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. 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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