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Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody-call-attenborough dept.

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. Sounds like a plan by colinrichardday · · Score: 5, Informative

    Way to spread the word!

    1. Re:Sounds like a plan by colinrichardday · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sure, why not? They annoy me with their Windows stuff.

  2. Really quite... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Pathetic.

  3. Re:It was funny in 1995 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The reason for promoting Trisquel is that it is one of the few Linux distributions on the FSF's approved list of completely free distributions. It's basically Ubuntu with a free kernel and without the option of installing Flash. Trisquel is one of the few distributions on the FSF's approved list which is quite user friendly. Personally, I'd rather they hand out a distribution with all the Linux firmware and drivers to provide better hardware support, but the FSF isn't about being practical, they are focused on software freedom.

  4. OS/2 crashing by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Back about 20 years ago, Steve Ballmer went to an IBM booth at an computer show, and tried to crash OS/2 there. So, I guess you reap what you sow.

    Eventually. Kinda sorta.

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  5. Re:I'd like to add a small change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's still there, albeit hard to find. Just use size:>10mb in the search bar

  6. Re:Crashing, huh? by donaggie03 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thanks for ruining the joke captain smartypants.

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