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Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event

New submitter Atticus Rex writes "Reporters and security guards at the Windows 8 launch event weren't sure how to react when they were greeted by a real, live gnu. The gnu — which, on closer inspection, was an activist in a gnu suit — had come for some early trick-or-treating. But instead of candy, she had free software for the eager journalists. The gnu and the Free Software Foundation campaigns team handed out dozens of copies of Trisquel, a fully free GNU/Linux distribution, along with press releases and stickers. Once they got over their confusion, the reporters were happy to see us and hear our message — that Windows 8 is a downgrade, not an upgrade, because it steals users' freedom, security and privacy."

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  1. Powell's colon by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    John SuGnuGnu said only a Gnu could love a Gnu.

  2. Activist is an old Indian word.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that translates roughly to "Doesn't have a real job.'

  3. Re:Windows 8 downgrades security? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Citation needed.

    You must be gnu here...

  4. Nice beard. by Haxagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The gnu — which, on closer inspection, was an activist in a gnu suit"
    It's hard to tell the two apart sans suit, sometimes.

    Said as a GNU/Linux enthusiast.

  5. Re:Worthless by VAElynx · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you think the purpose of a demonstration/event is "nude tits for the onlookers", you're a moron whose thought centre has moved from cranium to crotch.

  6. Re:So it wasn't a real, live Gnu... by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Microsoft came into a Gnu event it would be bashed as them crashing a party.

    Of course it would. Chances are it would also be csh'ed, ksh'ed and zsh'ed (amongst others) as well.

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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
  7. Re:Sounds like a plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    No {GNUs,news} is good {GNUs,news}.

  8. Not a gnu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Richard Stallman just hasn't shaved in awhile.

  9. Re:Crashing, huh? by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good thing it wasn't dark, they would have been likely to have been eaten by the GNU.

  10. Re:Worthless by VAElynx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think a reasonable person's choice of operating system is determined by the presence of human mammary glands. Otherwise Apple would be selling the iTit.

  11. Re:Worthless by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    What truly pathetic depths Slashdot has sank to.

    They let you in for a start.

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  12. Re:OS/2 crashing by icebraining · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nothing. Windows 98 crashed its own show.

  13. Re:Worthless by SuperMooCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use a 3D printer to print bitcoins to pay for Windows 8, you say? What a great idea!

  14. Re:Worthless by Fjandr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only people who already support their cause are supposed to look at them naked in public. It's in the EULA somewhere.