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TheOpenCD Launches First Edition

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-a-new-grid dept.

Emil fra Loeneberg writes with welcome news from TheOpenCD. "This article on NewsForge describes a project which plans to distribute Open Source Software (OSS) widely to Windows users. You can download a CD image from a mirror site and start spreading the OSS message. It's basically an OSS distro for Windows. This project was also mentioned on Slashdot back in April and now they are ready with a first release. Any first reviews?"

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  1. gnu/Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think microsoft will be very happy with stallman for trying to call it gnu/Windows

  2. I have an idea by Ezubaric · · Score: 5, Funny


    Let's call it America's Open Library (AOL) and send it out in bulk mailings on cheap blue CDs. This has gotta be effective, right?

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  3. nozilla! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It dosent have mozilla, this is crap (oh wait, mozilla is so bloated it needs to be released on the openDVD)

  4. Open Source Coasters by MeanMF · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there somebody out there who is going to collect 1,000,000 of these and deliver them to Richard Stallman? If so, sign me up!!

  5. The "Gateway Drug" by The+Monster · · Score: 3, Funny
    Linux can do that, and more, and with more freedom
    For the Kansas City Linux User Group booth at ITEC a few months ago, we threw together our own Free (at least as in speech - mostly GPL but some other licenses too) Software for Windows CD, and handed it out alongside our Linux offerings (inxluding Demo Linux, which allowed people to get used ). I called this the 'gateway drug', explaining to people that once they got a taste of what free software could do on a closed-source OS, the next step is to see what it could do when it's completely free. Our collection included a lot of things the Open CD people didn't - we had things like Apache and Ethereal on ours, but Open Office and the GIMP were probably the ones that most people would find helpful.
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  6. Re:This is great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Saying that free software and proprietary software must never, ever co-exist on the same machine is like saying that your stove can only cook fish dishes, not meat

    Yeah it's called JEWISH.

  7. Re:This is great by MonTemplar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah it's called JEWISH.

    You know what, you're right! D'oh!

    I shall resist the urge to any religion / OS comparisons...

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