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Fairfax IT: Windows refund day gets poor show

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 17, 1999

Thanks to Matthew Wright for this link.

“Windows refund day passed by with barely a murmur in Australia
yesterday with only faint activity in the United States courtesy of
a handful of orthodox geeks according to Microsoft Australia
officials.”

“The protesters carried penguins and shrink-wrapped software.
The corporate leaders served lemonade and iced tea. No effigies
were burned.”

“`How many rounds of Catch-22 do we have to go through?’ asked
Eric Raymond, a self-described `Linux theorist,’ who came to the
demonstration dressed like Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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