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happened in the jurisdiction of San Mateo,
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and if they told us they get lost, we'd say,
"Fine, we are going to Foster city. Bye."
1:13:10
It's sort of the Dukes of Hazzard method of
avoiding the cops, so...
1:13:16
Well actually, originally we marched
on the other side of this building.
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We marched around and up onto the parking
structure that's up there,
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and that's where Microsoft had a reception
laid out for us with
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drinks
and a big sign that said...
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"Microsoft Welcomes the Open Source Community".
1:13:34
and the local news cameras got shots of
Eric Raymond and Microsoft representative.
1:13:40
Microsoft's story seems to mostly be that...
1:13:44
...this was not an issue for Microsoft,
rather from the OEMs.
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So we all needed to go back to our
computer manufacturers and try yet again
1:13:53
to try and get refund from them.
1:13:56
We responded to them saying, you know,
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that we tried that and it's not possible,
we need Microsoft to take action at this point.
1:14:03
And they just repeated the tag line
over and over again...
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"you need to go to the OEMs and manufacturers
and get your refunds there."
1:14:10
We had about 150 people,
probably half of which had signs and such, so..
1:14:17
Well, we ended up actually right
in this courtyard here.
1:14:22
Basically we originally met, gathered outside,
1:14:26
various people sent groups in,
people from FreeBSD camp sent a couple of folks in.
1:14:32
We had Eric Raymond and Chris
actually tried to go up eventually.
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They had blocked the elevator off to us.
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[ Where are the offices? ]
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The offices are right up here on the 9th floor.
1:14:47
We got some really nice press out of it.
1:14:49
and we think as a result
1:14:51
Toshiba made it possible for you to buy
laptop without the operating system on it.
1:14:56
So, it's a small victory, but...
1:14:59
Well, even now, companies such as IBM and...