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Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year

jfruh writes "Sam Muirhead, a New Zealand filmmaker living Berlin, will, on the 1st of August, begin an experiment in living an open source life for a year. But this is going way beyond just trading in his Mac for a Linux machine and Final Cut Pro for Novacut. He's also going to live in a house based on an open source design, and he notes that trying to develop and use some form of open source toilet paper will be an "interesting and possibly painful process.""

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  1. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But... but... hasn't Stallman been doing this for years already?

    1. Re:But... by binarylarry · · Score: 2, Funny

      LOL Stallman would turn over in his grave if he heard you suggest he's living the open source lifestyle!

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    2. Re:But... by macraig · · Score: 4, Funny

      RMS has been doing fine without razors and toothbrushes and combs and toilet paper for decades. He's practicing open source hygiene.

    3. Re:But... by geekmux · · Score: 4, Funny

      RMS has been doing fine without razors and toothbrushes and combs and toilet paper for decades. He's practicing open source hygiene.

      Under those conditions, I believe it would be called open sores hygiene.

    4. Re:But... by binarylarry · · Score: 2, Funny

      BOOOMSHAKALAKA!

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    5. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You forget. He is dead already, but came back to life to liberate all the softwares! He's the modern day messiah of computer software! He will return to his grave specifically to roll over in it because of statements like him being open source.

    6. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      BOOOMSHAKALAKA!

      Are you alright in the head?

    7. Re:But... by ifiwereasculptor · · Score: 3, Funny

      -1 redundant. Who doesn't know that already? It's like not knowing how to use the three seashells.

  2. Re:Open source... by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Funny

    You do realize that "Open Source Women" are the one with the pretty old professional skill set???

    Perhaps, but men are the retards that keep paying for a free product.

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  3. Re:While you're at it... by hawguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if you try, why not go a year without DRM?

    If you think that's hard, try to go a year without DRAM

  4. Re:While you're at it... by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, uh, think you linked to the wrong article.

    Or else you already tried living without dynamic random-access memory, and your computer randomly linked to the wiki article on poverty as a result.

  5. Re:no woman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "he'll have trouble keeping the girls away."

    And when the girls do come a running Open source condoms therefore are going to be a much more "interesting and possibly painful process." I suspect.

    I think in this case, I'd choose closed source condoms lest i get open sores.

  6. Re:In other news by million_monkeys · · Score: 4, Funny

    I took a dump today.. Seriously this is just attention seeking, link bait. If I didn't know better I'd think it was a paid /. add.

    Was it an open source dump? If not, we don't want to hear about your proprietary shit.

  7. Re:food? by frup · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like he lives on the street.

  8. Re:Er, wait, what? by girlintraining · · Score: 3, Funny

    never used Adobe Premiere?

    He said toilet paper, not sodomy with six feet of iron wrought fencing and no lube.

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  9. Re:While you're at it... by nitehawk214 · · Score: 4, Funny

    WHOOOSH!

    WHOOSH!

    Actually the open source toilet makes a GNUOOSH sound.

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