Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 27, 2012 @05:40AM 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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Re:It was funny in 1995 by unixisc · 2012-10-27 07:52 · Score: 0, Troll

Or better still, use the term 'Software Liberation' with or without scare quotes. It avoids perverting the meaning of 'freedom', and instead focusses on what the agenda of Stallman really is - getting rid of software development as a profession that one can depend on alone to support one's livelihood.
Re:Sounds like a plan by UnknownSoldier · 2012-10-27 11:03 · Score: 1, Troll

When _you_ write a C compiler and text editor then you can name after yourself.
Are you unable to acknowledge all the good the GNU foundation has done?