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Free Geek Robbed
Ellen Wilson writes, "Portland, Oregon, non-profit Free Geek, which turns old PCs into Linux boxen, has been robbed of about $4500 worth of hardware. Portlanders are asked to keep an eye out for suspicious sales of Ubuntu laptops." This blog post has some details of labeling that could help to spot the stolen laptops. BoingBoing picked up the story and added that another local outfit, the Independent Publishing Resource Center, which supports Portland's zine scene, had been hit on the previous night.
Hardware just wants to be free.
But the computers wanted to be free. I hope whoever it was gets caught so they can be given a medal for liberating those poor computers from people who thought they could be "owned".
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Oh, please. Who in their right mind would buy a Ubuntu laptop? They're probably already formatted and running Windows XP. Hell, considering that Ubuntu (and the other Linuxes) literally cannot GIVE their product away, what moron would pay for it?
For real. Why the fuck would anybody buy a five-year-old Ubuntu laptop, much less steal one. That's like stealing an old diesel VW bus converted to run on vegetable oil.