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I confess, I'm mostly doing this because Billby is a LINUX aficionado who can't watch or doesn't like videos.
Windows Refund Day was a protest in the late 1990s that brought attention to the fact that anyone who wanted to use LINUX still had to pay money to Microsoft for a Windows license fee. Microsoft gave the standard answer "Hey, you can get a refund from the computer manufacturer" which of course allowed the protesters to point out that if you attempt to do so, the manufacturers all tell you to go to Microsoft for the refund, a catch-22 that leaves you stuck with paying the Windows license fee even if you never use Windows on a given machine.
This helped to raise awareness of Microsoft's sleazy business practices while simultaneously raising awareness of LINUX and other competing open source operating systems.
So the LINUX community we have today was not created by these protests, but it is certainly stronger and bigger today because of those protests.
I confess, I'm mostly doing this because Billby is a LINUX aficionado who can't watch or doesn't like videos.
Windows Refund Day was a protest in the late 1990s that brought attention to the fact that anyone who wanted to use LINUX still had to pay money to Microsoft for a Windows license fee. Microsoft gave the standard answer "Hey, you can get a refund from the computer manufacturer" which of course allowed the protesters to point out that if you attempt to do so, the manufacturers all tell you to go to Microsoft for the refund, a catch-22 that leaves you stuck with paying the Windows license fee even if you never use Windows on a given machine.
This helped to raise awareness of Microsoft's sleazy business practices while simultaneously raising awareness of LINUX and other competing open source operating systems.
So the LINUX community we have today was not created by these protests, but it is certainly stronger and bigger today because of those protests.