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Windows Refund Day - When Linux Users Demanded Their Money Back
In 1999, groups of open source software users staged an international protest against Microsoft. They demanded a refund for something they didn't want, but were forced to pay for: Microsoft Windows 98. Today's video examines one of these protests, which occurred in California's Silicon Valley, and the battle that these users fought to get their money back.
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I remember this and started following Linux news on line. The Lindows(later changed to Linspire) pissing contest really got me interested..Then XP did some astoundingly stupid stuff..I got the Linspire disk (with KDE.3 whatever) and ran it live for three days..Fell in love and installed Linspire. Still using Linux distros after all these years.(Ubuntu MATE).