[Gllug] Re: linux on the Desktop

[Christopher Currie]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:44:44 +0000 John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> 
wrote:
[snip]
> <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
> > Dylan wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Christopher Currie wrote:
> > >> fenestracide
> > >
> > > The act of removing Windows from a computer? Or is that
> > > defenestration?
> >
> > One original Microsoft Windows install CD (I forget exactly which
> > Windows variant) showed someone jumping out of a window.
> >
> > http://www.hinterlands.org/winicide.jpg
>
> I was going to make some sort of pedantic comment that defenestration
> strictly refers to being thrown out of a window, rather than jumping,
> but, on close inspection of the image, the man may well have been
> thrown by someone not visible from the viewer's angle.
>
> Is he an allegorical figure, representing common sense, or sanity, or
> something similar?

No. He's surely Jan Masaryk, representing Freedom (as in Software).

Christopher
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