http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/ Engadget Comments for Open source protestor crashes Bill Gates' speech in China http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 21st 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/]]>Apr 20th 2007 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Actually, China Goverment is supporting Linux (Red Flag) ^^]]>Apr 22nd 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
I rank this the second best prank evah...with this being number one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Y3B_sCtSg]]>Apr 20th 2007 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 30th 2007 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 24th 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Enjoy Chinese prison, fool.]]>Apr 20th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
I do not understand why people think this crap affects anything at all.

It does amuse me to watch open source nerds to make idiots of themselves though, just like the Bad Vista guys made me laugh.]]>Apr 20th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Are those 5.25 inch floppy disks on the plaques they are holding?

That's innovation!]]>Apr 20th 2007 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/

Oh crap, I shouldnt have said that. If you dont hear from me plz come rescue me from beijing thankyou]]>Apr 20th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 22nd 2007 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 22nd 2007 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/I personally think Microsoft has been doing a lot of good work lately, Vista, Home Server and XBox 360, these are all really good products for me. If you choose not to use them, don't.]]>Apr 20th 2007 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Seriously Ubuntu is less than 3 years old and before it a different flavor of Linux was all the rage and before than another. What is touted as the strength of open source is also it's greatest impediment to adoption. There is no central source to keep it alive so next year Ubuntu may be gone entirely and another flavor will be the MS/Apple killer.

And the greatest argument open source format promoters have against companies like MS are also the greatest weakness of open source formats. They will argue that MS can end support for a format any time they like. But if there isn't a penny going toward keeping an open source format alive will it be supported next year or even next week?

Someone is going to trot out the argument that because the standard is open you can write your own software if none exists. Sorry but open source isn't the panacea its promoters would like it to be.

Oh and BTW, I use Unix about 50% of the time.]]>Apr 20th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Open Source software isn't having a hard time. What do the vast majority of webservers run on? How about DNS? What about FTP? I'm sure you really like Exchange, but I'd be willing to be the bulk of all email is handled by open sourced products. Hey, how many of you out there run Firefox?

Microsoft has a market domination for a few reasons, they were the first to come out with a product for the x86 architecture, Linux wasn't even thought of for another decade. To think that somehow Microsoft was the reason for the acceptance of the x86 architecture is naive. IBM opened that up to anyone who wanted it (hrmmmm does this sound vaguely like something else?) and there wasn't really anyone else who was doing as much R&D as IBM or who had the corporate clout to push a product out.

Also, lets face it, marketing works. In general we buy what we're told about.

]]>Apr 20th 2007 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Really? It looks like he's having a flashback to the Conan O'Brien demo.]]>Apr 20th 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/]]>Apr 20th 2007 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
But I must say I am not having a good time with Ubuntu 7.04. I am suffering from the common ATI bug where the resolution only goes up to 1024x768. I've followed several posted solutions like editing the xorg.conf but still no change. Well, in fact, I can't even boot into Ubuntu after following the official solution for the bug.

Back to Windows MCE 2005 for now.]]>Apr 20th 2007 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Feisty_Installation_Guide]]>Apr 21st 2007 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
I can pretty much guarantee it takes alot more than that to get disapeared.]]>Apr 20th 2007 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Meanwhile the average consumer is more likely to scratch their heads and wonder what the sign means. I can hear people asking "Is he demanding free software from Microsoft?"]]>Apr 20th 2007 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/6196/spil33tnr0.jpg]]>Apr 20th 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 20th 2007 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
89.14% support the guy in going against Microsoft's monopoly (10.86% against)

63.95% support the method the guy used to express his opinion (36.05% against).]]>Apr 20th 2007 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/

Eeeahkah. get real, start thinking. I hope you don't drive like that...]]>Apr 20th 2007 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
You probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It would either be a Gnome Desktop or a KDE Desktop, both of which would seem very familiar to anyone who has ever used a Mac or Windows PC.

Seriously, Linux distros aren't that different from one another, at least from a user's point of view.]]>Apr 21st 2007 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/Apr 21st 2007 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
I'm actually more surprised by the 63.95% number. I think he's a moron but I still support the method. Do open source zealots want him to shoot someone or plant a bomb instead?]]>Apr 20th 2007 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/open-source-protestor-crashes-bill-gates-speech-in-china/
Your bias against open-source is obvious (note the use of the term "open-source zealot"...), but really, isn't it a *good thing* for MS to have some real competition, for a change?]]>Apr 21st 2007 12:06AM