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:The Register: Linux Hater/Traitor Turns to Windows
The Register: Linux Hater/Traitor Turns to Windows
May 4, 2006, 01 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (8969 reads)

(Other stories by Mark Ballard)

"Internet satirist Shelley the Republican has embraced Microsoft Windows, barely 10 days since publishing a tongue-in-cheek diatribe that painted the open source community as a bunch of communist hackers.

"Shelley side kick Tristan wrote a weblog that asserted the free, open source operating system Linux, a rival to the omnipresent operating system sold by US behemoth Microsoft, was the product of a communist plot to overthrow American capitalism and had been gleefully exploited by terrorist-at-large Osama Bin Laden..."

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...geddit?  ...   It's the Register...   
Jeffrey Rollin
May 4, 2006, 01:12:03
 
As characterised in her blog, by her own ...   Good Riddance   
Ursus Orribilus
May 4, 2006, 02:01:16
 
Um, I hate to point this out, but this,  ...   Re: Good Riddance   
scott_R
May 4, 2006, 03:37:46
 
Hey, what's with the Shelley the Rep ...   I resemble that   
jp
May 4, 2006, 04:35:26
 
you know what they say about empty cans  ...   Shelley the Republi-can's okay -   
Mjinga Wawa
May 4, 2006, 12:16:44
 
Ursus OrribilusI never would have though ...   Re: Good Riddance   
I R A Darth Aggie
May 4, 2006, 12:43:06
 
IF "Shelley the Republican" is a troll-s ...   I am "bearly" amused   
Ursus Orribilus
May 4, 2006, 16:18:31
 
> I'm desperately hoping she'll  ...   Re: Shelley the Republi-can's okay -   
Ken Jennings
May 4, 2006, 18:43:49
 
I sent the URL to some friends days ago. ...   No one told ZDnet it was a joke   
Sid Boyce
May 4, 2006, 22:35:45
 
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