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."

argh

[Anonymous Coward]

damn hippies

A valuable lesson learned today.

[FSWKU]

The software may be free. Enough computing power for the software to handle a slashdotting, however, is NOT free...

Powell's colon

[Tablizer]

John SuGnuGnu said only a Gnu could love a Gnu.

Activist is an old Indian word....

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Windows 8 downgrades security?

[Call Me Black Cloud]

Citation needed.

You must be gnu here...

Nice beard.

[Haxagon]

"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.

Re:Worthless

[VAElynx]

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.

Re:only Windows 8?

[Fishchip]

Shh, this is a Windows-bashing article. There'll be an OSX one in a little while.

Re:So it wasn't a real, live Gnu...

[Zocalo]

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.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Not a gnu

[Anonymous Coward]

Richard Stallman just hasn't shaved in awhile.

Re:Crashing, huh?

[Intrepid imaginaut]

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

Re:It was funny in 1995

[Anonymous Coward]

The very existence of the Gallician language is controversial. It's spoken only in the northwest corner of Spain, which would be part of Portugal if borders were drawn by actual cultural boundaries. (The Portugese language originated there.) But it's unpatriotic to refer to Gallician as a dialect of Portugese, so they have to pretend have their own language, mainly distinguished by the fact that Gallicia refuses to participate in efforts to reform Portugese spelling.

Huh. Portugal has hipsters, too.

So, when folks ask them where they're from and what's their native tongue, they say in their Gallician accent, "It's so cool, you've never heard of it."

Re:Worthless

[VAElynx]

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.

Re:Worthless

[wonkey_monkey]

What truly pathetic depths Slashdot has sank to.

They let you in for a start.

Re:OS/2 crashing

[icebraining]

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

Re:Worthless

[SuperMooCow]

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

Re:Worthless

[Fjandr]

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