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Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero"
christian.einfeldt writes "James Burgett of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center calls himself a 'tattooed freak' and a recovering drug addict, but CNN is calling him a hero (video) for diverting tons of computers from landfills, installing Ubuntu Linux on them, and giving them out to schools, non-profits, and poor people. Burgett's filmed interview is currently leading a CNN contest among videos of 'ordinary people' whom CNN considers everyday heroes, narrowly edging out the video of a man who is saving gorillas from extinction. In his interview, Burgett points out that the people working for him are also recovering drug addicts or recovering mental illness patients." Update: 10/02 23:46 GMT by KD : Reader stefanlasiewski posted a journal article describing how, bewilderingly, the state of California is threatening to shut down Burgett's ACCRC.
...when he found himself in a public washroom installing Vista for $20.
(just kidding...keep up the great work!).
Wow, think of all the PC hardware and Windows sales he's thwarted.
Ron
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
You don't have to be crazy to install Linux
but it helps!
sorry... old joke...couldn't resist
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
You can't take the sky from me...
Get the gorrillas to start using linux. That would surely win the top prize then.
Shortly after this announcement, a James Burgett was found at a local Denny's dead from appearent posioned grit inhalation.
You read that right. Inhalation. He did not chew.
Heroe? Oh... I understand... his name was robert paulson, his name was robert paulson, his name was robert paulson
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
How do you figure protecting half the world's mountain gorillas, at constant risk of being killed himself, is "useful"?
Noble? yes.
Useful? What use do you plan to put these gorillas to? Personally, whatever you have in mind, I think it is wrong. These gorillas should be allowed to live in peace instead of being enslaved or turned into fashionable yet durable manufactured goods. You are a bad person.
This guy really is heroic!! James, you have my vote!
Is that so? I dare you to put your young one (if you have one) next to a starved gorilla and observe the result.
Most of them are asking you to vote for the gorillas.
"In his interview, Burgett points out that the people working for him are also recovering drug addicts or recovering mental illness patients"
Or as we call them on Slashdot, 'Linux System Administrators'.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
I don't think this is a gorilla vs. Linux question -- both are benefiting from the publicity.
hear hear... and you can bet your ass someone at gorilladot.org just learned what Ubuntu is!
Walk with Music;
What use do you plan to put thousands of new Linux users to? At least no one is outsourcing gorillas.
(Yet, anyway. I suppose if the Rwandan economy continues to pick up, they might get undercut by orangutans.)
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Maybe Ubuntu will find some way to show their appreciation to the runner up in their "Gracious Gorilla" release.
Or as they were called on usenet, members of the Scary Devil Monastery.
If J.K.R wrote Windows: Puteulanus fenestra mortalis!
In the name of the father (Linus) and of the son (Tux) and of the holy Gecko I smite this AC to an eternity of using Windows Vista
Make SELinux enforcing again!
This isn't a dis on Windows, but why the heck are you proud of doing the same thing that 90% of everyone else does?
You're missing the important part. 90% of everyone is working with Windows, but GP has made the rare accomplishment of being happy while doing so.
Fuck humans. What have they ever done except fuck the planet six ways to Sunday?
i bet he turned to linux after finding his feminine side in prison.
Not to forget that Linux can produce daemons at will..
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
Steve, is that you?
Now I am sad.
Fine by me. For starters, fuck you.
- Francis Ocoma
Please wait while Sig Request is being processed...
Hell, alcohol IS recovery... can you recover from recovery?
Bah... recovery recursion... headache... need scotch.
So god is just another marketer...
Mod Parent +1 Insightful rather than funny. Us "intelligent" humans have done exactly what the parent has said...we have screwed the planet (and ourselves at times) 6 ways to Sunday.
To Alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
He said gorillas, not chimps.
Oh, and this is my favorite pic of the bunch. It reminds me of me in the morning after a long night of drinking, wild drugs and some coyote love.
Lol, true dat. Alcohol is a solvent.
How about saving gorillas so they can install Linux... After all, if a "Standard End User" can do it, then it's a cinch for a gorilla!
He was a man who didn't know the meaning of the word "fear"; or the meaning of many other words longer than 3 letters
You sed it!
"It ain't a war against drugs.it's a war against personal freedom" --Bill Hicks