http://www.newsforge.com/trends/04/01/30/0111257.shtml
Washington DC, January 31, 2014 -- Riot police have finally managed to beat back the milling throng of displaced Visual Basic programmers who attacked the courthouse after Judge Cotter Kathelly announced that Linux was not an illegal monopoly and that neither Linus Torvalds nor his company, Linux Development, Inc, owed damages to former employees and shareholders of now-bankrupt Microsoft or to any of its business partners.
Protestors have been a daily feature of this trial since it started early last year. A bald, bearded man wearing a poncho who identifies himself only as "Balls," but who some say is really former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been fingered by police as the ringleader, but so far their efforts to capture him have been fruitless. His appearances have been brief, and he has melted back into the crowd and disappeared after each one, while thousands of demonstrators carrying signs with "Flying Windows" logos on them have blocked police whenever they tried to pursue the fleeing figure.
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We tried to interview some of the other interested parties attending the trial, both in and out of the courthouse, but most of them were weeping so hard that it was impossible to understand their words. One former Microsoft developer said (in between tears), "We thought proprietary software would go on forever. We believed all those studies that showed Windows was better and more secure than Linux. Now that we know Microsoft paid for all of them, we feel betrayed. I lost my house, my wife and kids, my Maserati, even my 80' yacht. I worked for stock options alone after the company ran out of money to pay employees. Now I don't know what I'm going to do. I only know how to program with .Net, and .Net is dead. Maybe I can get a job at Burger King -- probably in Bangalore, now that India's population is so rich from writing Linux software that none of them will do grunt work and they're recruiting labor here in America."
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- Sandip
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