[dundee] M$-hoo bad for FOSS

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my goodness.. Mr Februarys a bit of alright.

:p

On Feb 4, 2008 10:24 PM, gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com> wrote:

> You are right and this is how it happened from our undercover FOSS
> reporter.
>
> Seemingly Michael Dell has got Ubuntu on his laptop, he went to party
> in Switzerland over a week ago, it was held in Billy Boy's honour with
> Bono and Tony Blair attending as well. It went like this:
>
> Mikey - Hey Billy Boy seem my new, cool laptop with spinning cube.
> Billy - Hey that's swell what is that?
> Mikey - Ubuntu, an O.S. for human beings.
> Billy - Can I buy the company?
> Mikey - No it is Linux, but I could put it on your laptop.
> Billy - Sure, but don't tell anyone. For human beings?, Steve can't have
> this.
> Mikey - I will put a Windows Vista background on it and nobody will know.
> Bono - Cool, can I make up a passionate song about this and give the
> proceeds to Africa?
> Mikey - Sure, Ubuntu is an African word and it rhymes with U2.
> Tony - Can I give a talk about it for £100,000 and give the money to my
> wife?
> Mikey - Yeah, as long as you mention Dell is shipping with this on our
> laptops.
> Billy -  Please Mikey put it on now for me so I can play with it!
> Mikey - Sure Bill, but this is supposed to be your party.
> Billy - I don't care, I think I am in love.
>
> These events cannot be verified without revealing the mystery identity
> of the undercover FOSS reporter, just take my word for it.
>
> Gordon
>
>
>
> On 04/02/2008, Arron M Finnon <afinnon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > PS I hear Billy Boy Gates uses Ubuntu, he just luv's compiz i suppose
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