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Posted by michael from the man-is-born-free-and-everywhere-he-is-in-chains dept.
An unknown reader points us to the Windependence Day contest sponsored by DesktopLinux. Cute idea, and I'm sure some people have exciting stories of battling the talking paperclip...
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  • Good thing he doesn't work under CrossOver Office...

    Stupid paperclip.
  • I don't depend on windows
    wnidows depends on me

  • July 14th: The Storming of Redmond (Score:4, Funny)

    by boa13 ( 548222 ) on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:24PM (#3733910) Homepage Journal
    And on July 14th, join us as we storm the Redmond stronghold and cut the head of the evil king of the Microsoft Kingdom. The storming of Redmond will symbolize, for all citizens of Linuxdom, liberty, democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression!

  • Uhh.... (Score:2, Troll)

    by smoondog ( 85133 )
    I battle word, excel, powerpoint and window 2000 everyday. Does this mean I'm finally going to win?

    -Sean

    • Re:Uhh.... (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Use your secret weapon: fdisk. Windows has no defense.

      "...crush the Rebellion with one swift stroke!"

    • Re:Uhh.... (Score:3, Funny)

      by flewp ( 458359 )
      Actually, speaking of battling the paperclip bastard....
      About a year ago, doing a freelance job, I had to work a lot with Frontpage2000. Not too bad, since I was able to use Dreamweaver at home, but I also had to use Word a lot when I was in the office. It was mostly for conversions of data to be put into HTML. Since I was working on a machine that someone else used, and they were the primary user, I opted not to really change anything around. Anyway, one day when working with Word, the paperprick bastard kept popping up. I got so mad (mostly from being hungover) I took the box of paperclips at the desk and proceeded and to simply bend probably around 20-25 until they broke. Man, that was great. Not only did I kill the minions of the paperclip army, I killed enough time to the point that I chilled out and got back to work. Anyone else have a similiar pathetic story?

      (yeah, yeah, I eventually turned the helper off, but whatever.)

  • Misnomer (Score:5, Interesting)

    by ObviousGuy ( 578567 ) <ObviousGuy@hotmail.com> on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:25PM (#3733914) Homepage Journal
    What about a Sundependence Day? Or a Vaxdependence Day? Or a Aixdependence Day?

    More systems are leaving traditional Unix for Linux than are leaving Windows for Linux.
    • Or Inteldence Day? Throw out you intel cpu and get a motorola! So much prettier.
      • Or Inteldence Day? Throw out you intel cpu and get a motorola! So much prettier.

        For all the beauty of Apple cases, I don't think the cpu itself looks all that much better.

    • UNIX on VAX? When did this happen?

      • Re:Misnomer (Score:1, Informative)

        by Anonymous Coward
        DEC had a nice Unix on VAX 15 years ago. I don't know if it's been maintained by Compaq.

        • Are you thinking of ULTRIX? As far as I can tell, it was pretty much phased out about the time that the Alpha processor launched. It was replaced by OSF/1, aka Digital UNIX, aka Tru64, which itself has now been retired in favor of HP/UX.

      • It happened shortly after the VAX was introduced in 1977, when DARPA contracted with the Computer Sciences Research Group to port their version of UNIX from the PDP-11.

        • Also, I nearly forgot about ULTRIX, which was a DEC product introduced somewhat later. It was a heavily VMS influenced version of UNIX for VAX, but I don't know if it has any relationship with the forementioned UNIX port.



    • More systems are leaving traditional Unix for Linux than are leaving Windows for Linux.

      Yea. I've heard that theory too. Though I haven't seen any good data on it - got a reference?


      One concept to consider is a loss for Solaris or AIX to Linux is still a loss for Microsoft.


      I used to administer a lab of Unix (Solaris, HP/UX) workstations used for engineering applications. The apps were often also available for the Windows NT environment. Thus, Management was constantly being courted by vendors who offered Windows NT engineering workstation solutions - the draw was the cheaper, commodity hardware. But the engineers largely preferred the Unix workstations after experiencing WinNT during training seminars. None the less, the promise of cheaper hardware was always tempting.


      These applications are now largely available for Linux. Thus Linux competes with Windows for the market of those who are seeking a way to run these applications on commodity hardware. When a shop migrates away from, say, Solaris it may be a loss for Solaris. But when the shift is to Linux, it is likely to be at the expense of a move to Windows.

    • It's a considerably sad thing to say considering other Unixes are fighting Microsoft the current problem.

      But it's true.... and more sad to admit they had it comming.

      Ma Bell liccensed source code. No binarys no support just source.
      Unix admin came to expect source code.

      But with the Ma Bell break up and shrink wrap liccenses Unix drifted farther and farther away from that philosophy.

      GNU/Linux fills the void left by this...

      Sun offers Solarus source code for a hefty liccens fee I believe.
  • All we need is a tea party in Seattle.

    or public burnings of Bill Gates in Effigy or something.

    Should get his attention.

  • How about a overly paitiotic story about flying a jet fighter being flown into the big glowing heart of redmond and the whole place blowing up.....

    or is that a little too insensitive these days??

  • Switchers? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by tbo ( 35008 )
    To help celebrate wIndependence Day (or, perhaps more accurately, WinDependence Day), do we have just not be Windows users, or do we have to use Linux? If it's just about not using Linux, then somebody [apple.com] has already started promoting a similar idea.

    Maybe Apple would team up with the Linux community on this one if the event was a little more inclusive. On the other hand, I think OS X and Linux are serious competitors, at least in the PPC world. I know my interest in Linux on PPC died when I saw the terminal in OS X and XDarwin...
    • To help celebrate wIndependence Day (or, perhaps more accurately, WinDependence Day), do we have just not be Windows users, or do we have to use Linux? If it's just about not using Linux, then somebody [apple.com] has already started promoting a similar idea.

      First, you need to rephrase your question.

      As stated, no, you don't have to use GNU/Linux, but you do have to use a Free Operating System (Free as in Freedom). This rules out Apple, Sun, etc. Replacing one set of masters with another set of masters doesn't by you an ounce of freedom or independence, which is what "Windependence" is all about.

      So, if you had phrased your question "...do we have just not be Windows users, or do we have to use Free Software" then the answere would be, if you wish to be free and independent, then yes, you have to use free software. If you do not care that a corporate vendor has veto power over your ability to use your PC, then Apple, Microsoft, or any number of other proprietary vendors will likely serve your purposes just fine.

      Ok, maybe not Microsoft based on their track record for the last 10 years vis-a-vis reliability, security, and forced obsolescence...but don't kid yourself: Sun and Apple are just failed Microsoft wannabe's, and if you switch to their product you may find, while you are breathing a sigh of relief to be free of Microsoft's stranglehold, that you have in fact only replaced one set of masters with another and are now firmly entrenched in Apple, or Sun's, stranglehold. It only becomes a question of time then, before you are looking for escape once more.
  • Except for a few months in 1996 when I had a NT box on loan from a customer (didn't care for it) my home and business have always been Windows-free (and Apple-free as well).

  • How about.... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by simetra ( 155655 ) on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:33PM (#3733955) Homepage Journal
    Focusing all this energy on creating replacements for the apps that keep us tied to Windows?

    For me to run Linux on my main PC at work, I need specific things: A Groupwise client, a Novell client, a pcAnywhere type thing to check on remote systems which cannot be replaced by Linux because of the apps that must run on them... ? These things would go a lot further than a doorprize, though free stuff is always good.
    • pcAnywhere type thing? You haven't looked very hard if you haven't run across VNC, look it up.

    • Re:How about.... (Score:3, Informative)

      by Scutter ( 18425 )
      A Groupwise client, a Novell client, a pcAnywhere type thing to check on remote systems which cannot be replaced by Linux because of the apps that must run on them... ?

      You mean like this [novell.com], this [darkrock.co.uk] (or this [novell.com]), and this [tightvnc.com]?

    • Re:How about.... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by pete-classic ( 75983 ) <hutnick@gmail.com> on Thursday June 20, 2002 @12:32AM (#3734179) Homepage Journal
      You are incorrect about what is tying you to Windows. It is your dependence on proprietary communication protocols and file formats.

      The only way to "kick the habit" and to bring any real competition back to the SW industry is to only use software that interchanges data in standard formats.

      In the mean time, many dedicated OSS developers are fighting the losing fight of trying to create reverse-engineered software for many of the more popular proprietary formats and protocols. God bless 'em.

      -Peter
    • For me to run Linux at work, I need Office. I can't even convince my project boss (1000 km away, more or less) to use FrameMaker for this project, despite its being the Right Tool for the Job.

      At home, however... Linux box here I come! (Just moved; computers et al in pieces!)

      ?!
    • For me to run Linux on my main PC at work, I need specific things: A Groupwise client, a Novell client...

      Can't help with GroupWise, but back when I was playing with NetWare 5, I had Linux accessing shares on a NetWare server. It's been a while, but IIRC you need IPX and NCP support compiled into the kernel (NCP over TCP wasn't supported...maybe it is now). There might've been some additional software involved, but I can't remember offhand. (I set up a server on some spare hardware, got my CNS, and toasted my setup when some hardware went screwy...haven't bothered putting it back on a machine since Linux will do for me what NetWare does, and then some.)

  • One question though... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by The_Shadows ( 255371 ) <thelureofshadows ... minus physicist> on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:35PM (#3733962) Homepage
    If Indenpendence Day is ID4....
    Does that make Windependence Day WD-40?

  • Independence day allows us to look back on the sacrifices [alliance4lifemin.org] our forefathers made to keep America free. I don't appreciate seeing it trivialized to further some partisan hippy cause. "Free software" types are clearly, in many cases, not on the side of Freedom (except when it comes to smoking pot). We need only look at their response to the Microsoft "anti-trust" case, or the victim-control [216.239.51.100] mentality they exhibit so often on sites like this one. I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I'm even less of a fan of government intrusion. I recommend everybody read Atlas Shrugged [amazon.com] to see how Gates should have handled things, if he wasn't such a pansy.

    Bottomline: don't trivialize independence day.
    Take the opportunity to start working for real change: less government intrusion, less taxes, fewer regulations, more freedom. Those are your birthrights, secured with the blood of our ancestors. Don't let them down by falling for this hippy crap instead.
    • Dude, I agree with your sentiments whole-heartedly, however, as snopes2 can tell you, that page is rather a hoax. Some of the founding fathers did make extreme sacrifices, but not as bad as you think.

      http://www.snopes.com/glurge/declare.htm

      However, I whole-heartedly agree with your basic premise, in that this is distasteful of them, and Atlas Shrugged is a good read. Not likely to happen, ever, but an interesting perspective.
    • I don't agree with you, but I respect your opinion. I can't believe that you got modded down as troll.

      The reason I disagree is that monopolistic companies and organizations can take away our rights the same as any invader. Only we have a harder time fighting them. The MPAA/RIAA and their purchase of Senator Fritz come to mind. If the SSSCA had passed, we'd have lost some rights critical to creative work.

      I respectfully disagree with you, but modding you down as Troll was awful. There are moderators on Slashdot that could stand to learn the difference between stating an opinion and trying to rile people up.
      • The parent post was a troll, and I'll tell you why. (I was not a moderator today, but I may have modded this one down.) First, he refered to the subject as "some partisan hippy cause", which is misleading (is it Republican, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, or Whig?), and the language he uses is unkind. Second, he writes, ""Free software" types are...not on the side of Freedom (except when it comes to smoking pot)." Wow! Even if I agreed with the premise that this is an inappropriate day to hold such festivities, I am insulted. This is unnecessary, and turns me (and any other Linux user) away from his message immediately. Finally, he calls Bill Gates a pansy, which should turn off any Microsoft fans. Who is left? Apple? Be? Vax?

        The poster is making an important point, but the point is lost amid the insults. People will respond not to the ideas but the language. For that reason, it is a troll.

        I have re-written the parent, removing all insults, thus making a more effective post:

        Independence day allows us to look back on the sacrifices our forefathers made to keep America free. I don't appreciate seeing it trivialized.

        Take the opportunity to start working for real change: less government intrusion, less taxes, fewer regulations, more freedom. Those are your birthrights, secured with the blood of our ancestors. Don't let them down!

      • Doesn't surprise me. Last week I got modded "Flamebait" for daring to suggest that if coders want respect from beta testers, maybe they should respect beta testers in return. Makes me long for a return of the Great Blackout, when all the morons went away for a week.

        On to the topic, I think you're both right, in that the line between gov't and business has become so blurred that it's often impossible to tell just who is controlling what. Yet all too often, the opposing forces (frex, opensource advocates) are indeed more like hippies than patriots. (Of course, most folk here weren't yet born during the hippie era, and have no idea what the parent post is talking about.)

        But the situation at present is actually FAR beyond the abuses that led to the American War for Independence (it was called the Revolutionary War on the *other* side of the ditch). Frex, did you know that the horribly extortionate Tea Tax, which led to the "Boston Tea Party", was a whopping ONE PERCENT?!!

        Yet now we put up with half our income being stripped by taxes, another chunk being pried out of our wallet by business interests like M$ and the RIAA, and effectively no representation working against these primary and secondary levies.

        Yeah, this rambles a bit, so flame me. :)

    • Re:Truly outrageous (Score:3, Insightful)

      by guttentag ( 313541 )
      ...fewer regulations, more freedom...
      The prospect of "fewer regulations" is not a uniformly "good thing." There may be regulations that [are|seem to be] overzealous and overbearing, but many regulations are designed to protect you.

      The pharmaceutical industry would like fewer regulations so it could lower its costs, but the regulations set quality requirements for your safety. You can walk into any drug store and the generic drugs are just as high quality as the name brands. Without the regulations, you'd be betting your health on the abilities of a corporation's marketing team.

      The airline industry would like fewer regulations so it could lower the cost of maintaining and flying planes, but the regulations require certain maintenance procedures for your safety. The pilots and mechanics of the airline may not want to cut corners, but executives are forever pushing for that extra dollar of profit. Without the regulations, planes would be falling out of the sky because some exec who knows nothing about aviation pushed too far.

      Peter Pan may get away without regulations in Never Land, but in the real world regulations serve a purpose.

      Bottom line: If you're going to criticize regulations that serve specific interests (as opposed to the whole of society), fine, but don't trivialize regulations.

      • The prospect of "fewer regulations" is not a uniformly "good thing." There may be regulations that [are|seem to be] overzealous and overbearing, but many regulations are designed to protect you.

        Well...when you go to the store to buy an iron or a hair dryer, is it the government that protects you? No...but the Underwriters Laboratories approval tag is almost certainly on the appliance you buy. UL is not a governmental body.

    • damn, too bad Microsoft isn't a british company
      cuz then i'd stop drinking this horrible tea and get my gun..

      microsoft is coming! microsoft is coming!

      don't you love how history repeats itself?

  • Lycoris (Score:3, Insightful)

    by rob-fu ( 564277 ) on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:41PM (#3733985)
    If Lindows was an infringement upon the Windows name, then Lycoris has to be basically identical to WinXP (based on the screenshots). Look:

    here [lycoris.org]
    here [lycoris.org]
    and here [lycoris.org]

    Perhaps MS can sue them for 'theft of look and feel.'
    • Hey, check out the user and password icon...that looks like a tweaked up version of the MSN Messanger icon that I get on my mac when it starts. Like...they put hair on them, and put a lock in front of them
    • Actually there's a precedent, that you cannot sue over "look and feel" -- had to do with the Lotus menu system, back in the dark ages of DOS. Someone who cares can probably look up the legal references.

  • Definition? (Score:5, Funny)

    by sheepab ( 461960 ) on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:41PM (#3733988) Homepage
    Windependance day - The day hoards of slashdotters and Linux fans alike gathered to battle that EVIL paper clip. And what did they do? Well, heh, Ill tell you what they did, but it wasnt pretty. When they got ahold of the paper clip, they grabbed ahold of him at each and...and they....they....STRAIGHTENED HIM!!!

    • Re:Definition? (Score:3, Funny)

      by Skevin ( 16048 )
      ...and they....they....STRAIGHTENED HIM!!!

      What? the Office Assistant isn't straight?
    • "Windependance day - The day hoards of slashdotters and Linux fans alike gathered to battle that EVIL paper clip. And what did they do? Well, heh, Ill tell you what they did, but it wasnt pretty. When they got ahold of the paper clip, they grabbed ahold of him at each and...and they....they....STRAIGHTENED HIM!!!"

      For those who are fighting a battle against the office clippy, you can easily neuter it by renaming the directory \program files\microsoft office\office\actors. It's like the clippy is not installed. This information should be most useful to people on corporate machines where they cannot get a hold of the Office CD to run setup.exe to uninstall it.

      • I never understood this. Why do people come up with such complicated, convoluted solutions to getting rid of clippy, instead of just, like, not installing it? As in, go to "custom install" and like, uncheck the box?

  • Why July 4? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by ross.w ( 87751 )
    Lets see, we could have done this on:

    July 14th (France)
    May 1st (Russia)
    October 1st (China)
    July 1st (Hong Kong)
    June 12th (Phillippines)
    March 1st (South Korea)
    April 30th (Vietnam)

    Why is 4th July so special?
    • "Why is 4th July so special?"

      July 4th is the USian independence day. If we don't let them have their way, expect to see your country join the "axis of evil" and get bombed in a couple weeks.

    • Scandinavian independence day. If it weren't for Scandinavians, we wouldn't even be thinking about this.

  • ironic? (Score:2, Troll)

    by ross.w ( 87751 )
    Doesn't anyone find it ironic that people hate Microsoft for much the same reasons that people from Microsoft's own country hated England?

    • Re:ironic? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by ceejayoz ( 567949 )
      Microsoft is quartering their troops in peoples' homes and taxing without representation? Wait, how'd I miss that?

      • Re:ironic? (Score:3, Insightful)

        by ross.w ( 87751 )
        So Microsoft's Corporate licencing isn't a tax without representation?
        • No. A companies product that you make a very free choice to purchase is not a tax. Next please.
          • the operative word here is "free choice". Most Corporate users don't have that (yet).

            Especially those with licences that require them to pay Microsoft for every PC they own regardless of whether it has Windows on it.

            Ever tried to return your OEM MS Windows for the refund promised by the EULA?

            Yes there are alternatives. (I use one of them), but to most people, especially businesses, the Microsoft tax (and the Autodesk tax, for that matter) is a fact of doing business.
      • and sending the BSA cronies to do audits without warrants isn't as bad as quartering troops in our homes?
        • You have the choice not to buy MS products and thus not give them an excuse to do an audit.

          Anyways, has there even been a single actual audit? I would think /. would have covered it if one had happened, but I can't find any info. Seems to me it's just a paper tiger.
          • of course WE have the choice, but most of corporate America is so clueless they don't realize it, and collectively lock themselves into using M$ tripe.

            Yes, there have been plenty of audits. None that have effected me, but I've read about them...
            • Then corporate America will either wise up and go Linux (hreh... heh heh heh...), or it's not as big of a deal to them as Slashdot zealotry would have you believe.
    • The English colonies in North America decided they wanted independence. But England didn't want them to be independent. When the colonists declared their independence, England waged war. By war, I mean bullets, bloodshed, gangrene, evisceration, hangings, rapes, burning of homes and crops, enslavement of children, etc.

      Now contrast this with the average Microsoft user and Microsoft. Said user wants to be independent of Microsoft products. Microsoft doesn't want them to be. User erases Microsoft software and installs FreeBSD (or Linux for you folks in Rio Linda). Microsoft responds by ... nothing. They don't wage war. They don't fire bullets. They don't kill, rape, pillage or burn.

      If you can't understand the difference between Microsoft under King Bill and England under King George, you need to get out into the sun a bit more often.

  • exciting stories? (Score:3, Funny)

    by bilbobuggins ( 535860 ) <`moc.tnujtnuj' `ta' `snigguboblib'> on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:56PM (#3734056)
    I'm sure some people have exciting stories of battling the talking paperclip...

    LMAO.

    'It was a dark and stormy night. My nervous grip on my trusty Xconfigurator tightened as I heard the 'BOOIIING!' from the distance. Only one thing in this world made that sound. And that thing was Bob...'

    • "I'm sure some people have exciting stories of battling the talking paperclip... "

      I started typing a swashbuckling tale about my battles on my work machine (where I'm not allowed to install anything) against the clippy, but then I remembered that I'm at work.

  • On the next Celebrity Boxing... (Score:3, Funny)

    by shmuc ( 70684 ) on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:57PM (#3734060) Journal
    Paperclip vs. Penguin

  • I can see the filk now... (Score:3, Funny)

    by jejones ( 115979 ) on Wednesday June 19, 2002 @11:57PM (#3734061) Journal
    Let freedom ring/Let the penguin sing...

    (Apologies to Martina McBride.)

  • ...why not celebrate it on the day the courts finally dole out MS's punishment? I mean, it's gonna happen sooner or later, right?

  • Windependence Day, my story. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20, 2002 @12:19AM (#3734139)

    I recently switched. Just my laptop, for now...

    My company volunteered for a BSA audit some months ago.

    We were short some licenses; we rectified the situation before sending our report back to the BSA, indicating while we had been short some licenses, we were currently in compliance...

    This overage involved approximately 10% of our client machines...

    We relaxed, thinking we'd done good ethically and morally, by owing up to our discretion and paying for it...

    Then we were sued...

    Not for the the 10% of our clients that were out of license...

    For a sum equal to the entire -retail- value of all BSA represented software at our organization...

    Paid for yesterday, or three years ago, or five, or more...

    Essentially, they want us to pay for every piece of BSA software (we currently use) twice...

    My Windependence day happened a month ago...

    Just my laptop...

    25 machines on our network use mission critical MS-only systems...

    That's less that 3%...

    Last month MS lost 1 customer...

    Just my laptop...

    The other 900+ systems on our network...

    Well...

    They're good for now...
  • Hmmm... Wonder if a "Rebel against Linux Day" story would make front page? Microsoft's struggle to battle the communist open sourcers.

    Sure my comment's troll flame-bait, but no more than that story is.
    • Hmmm... Wonder if a "Rebel against Linux Day" story would make front page? Microsoft's struggle to battle the communist open sourcers.

      We could call it Lindependence Day.

      *rotfl* these crappy-ass puns just kill me.
  • I considered switching my desktop to Linux for a while and have been looking closely at it for the last five years. Unfortunately, there's not much progress in sight. Installing a simple game is an exercice in patience. Why can't I just click on Next - Complete Install and then click on Finish and start the game just like in Windows?

    The already bundled software with the Linux distribution works fine but its when I want to install new software that the problems occur (ie. missing libraries, permissions, drivers, graphics, etc.)
    • Based on your argument why not switch to Mac. No install required just click on the icon on the CD and viola! you are playing. If you wish to install it on your system just drag and drop it where you want it.


      What gets me with Windows is that when you have something that you know works but that you have to keep reinstalling the software or to keep thing simple save your stuff on another system and reinstall. You do not know what is being installed and you have to take great care to insure that the system is running well. If you ever had a test system where you constantly install...test...deinstall you would have a hard time keeping this system running properly without problems for a year.


      Now on linux you have the dependencies. It may require a couple of minutes more to install but in the end you never have to reinstall the OS to keep the stability. This also applies to FreeBSD and such.

      • Well I have yet to reinstall Windows XP since its release. Pretty stable and no crashes as of yet.

        Yes I considered Macs but the problem is that they're pretty expensive. If I buy a Mac, it'll be an iBook. There laptops are decently priced for once.
  • A special black OPs agent, known as the BOFH, has already made his way into the stronghold. Using unencrypted satellites, he's beamed back his assault on Clippy. View the gruesome archive:

    http://www.salmondays.tv/downloads/paper_clip.mp g

  • Windependance != Freedom, it seems (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Phil Hands ( 2365 ) on Thursday June 20, 2002 @08:15AM (#3735213) Homepage
    I think it's a shame that most of the prizes are partly or completely non-free software.

    It brings to mind what I believe is a translated polish proverb:

    A change of leaders is the joy of fools.

    To exchange one set of proprietary terms & conditions for another, even if the new ones are a lot less aggravating, when one could instead have grasped Freedom in perpetuity, is a wasted opportunity in my opinion.

    • I think it's a shame that most of the prizes are partly or completely non-free software.

      That was so well said that I'll give you 10 free Apache licenses and another 10 free OpenOffice licenses!

    • It brings to mind what I believe is a translated polish proverb:

      A change of leaders is the joy of fools.

      Yeah, we have a proverb like that in English too:

      Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

      I chuckled when I heard the bad guy saying this in "The Sum Of All Fears" but I didn't know just how deeply Pete Townshend's line had worked itself into the linguistic landscape until I did this search. [google.com]
  • Windows-alike interfaces aren't that special. Let's start doing something revolutionary, like paying attention to UI research results.

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