snowraven

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Nope it's me that doesn't care more about this than you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The world is such a sad place to live. This comes from USA, just think about all the third world countries, it's not any better but worse sadly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wow that article was a ride. I feel so happy to not have used windows in the past 5 or so years.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"I was at house eating dorito when phone ring"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you could link a credible source it's hard to accept this as anything more than a mere opinion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.

But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here "history is written by victors". The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

To be fair more people died from the diseases brought by the settlers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the songs from "the hobbit". Ah the nostalgia!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this an online quiz? I wanna take it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Plot twist: you elder brother has been the lead KDE propagandist all along.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's totally not a worse death.

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I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don't know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too.

Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.

 

I am a big history enthusiast and would greatly love to read more about history and big events in the world of linux or FOSS in general. Here's one example: on Feb 15, 1999, the windows refund day event happened, I am interested to read more about such events in detail. Is there a decent book or resource that covers all this in detail?

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