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Introducing Linux to Joe Average

Posted by michael on Saturday January 31, 2004 @11:53PM from the frenetic dept.

eco2geek writes "The local "alternative newspaper" is running a cover story titled 'The Rebel Alliance: An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution.' I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything, but the article does give the average reader a good introduction to what Linux is, why it's important, and some of the politics surrounding it. (The article also mentions 'the frenetic Slashdot.org.' :-)"

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Re:So many funny quotes by tomcrick · 2004-02-01 00:13 · Score: 1, Redundant

Surely this has to rank as one of the biggies:

"Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire,'" Torvalds told The New York Times last year. "I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

Oh well, never mind, move on etc....
repeat story by flyingdisc · 2004-02-01 00:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

Isn't this a repeat of a story put up a month or so ago? I had a quick look on the old articles and couldn't find it but I have a strong sense of deja vu.
Ground Zero by InvaderSkooge · 2004-02-01 03:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well, Portland is Ground Zero for a lot of rain.

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