Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year

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Man Tries To Live an Open Source Life For a Year

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 12, 2012 @02:57PM from the living-free dept.

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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But... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-12 15:02 · Score: 5, Funny

But... but... hasn't Stallman been doing this for years already?
1. Re:But... by macraig · 2012-07-12 15:29 · 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.
2. Re:But... by geekmux · 2012-07-12 16:02 · 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.
Re:Open source... by girlintraining · 2012-07-12 15:12 · 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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Re:While you're at it... by hawguy · 2012-07-12 15:38 · 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
Re:While you're at it... by interkin3tic · 2012-07-12 16:23 · 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.
Re:In other news by million_monkeys · 2012-07-12 17:39 · 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.
Re:food? by frup · 2012-07-12 17:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Sounds like he lives on the street.
Re:While you're at it... by nitehawk214 · 2012-07-13 01:46 · Score: 4, Funny

WHOOOSH!
WHOOSH!
Actually the open source toilet makes a GNUOOSH sound.

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