To: nylug-talk@barley.electriclichen.com Subject: [nylug-talk] Informal blurt about Refund Day Monday 15 February 1999 in New YorkCity From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:55:29 -0500 (EST) cc: chris@netmonger.net, jgleason@electriclichen.com, Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com> Sender: owner-nylug-talk@electriclichen.com We are going to assemble at noon on Monday at the Eighth Avenue entrance of the building at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue which houses Microsoft's NYC headquarters. Who knows what we will do, but we will do something there. We have a room at the Day's Hotel across the street and from noon until 6:00 pm we shall be available to reporters and we shall be taking delivery of three computers and recording carefully the first bootings, the removals of all bits of Microsoft OSes from the hard disks, the swearings of the affidavits, and the mailings to the OEMS of our requests for a refund. After that we'll install various free OSes on the three machines and explain the advantages, fair advantages, which free OSes have over source secret single vendor OSes, and we'll explain the unfair advantages the source secret OSes have amongst the 85% of computer buyers who are not sophisticates with regard to computers. We expect some interested observers from various consumer groups, government agencies, etc., and we hope that Microsoft sends over a spokesmodel^spokesperson so they get a chance to tell their side of the story. Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org PS. A more formal notice will go out tonight and also be placed on the website: http://www.netmonger.net/~onr/ny/welcome.html
To: nylug-talk@barley.electriclichen.com Subject: [nylug-talk] What is Needed on Refund Day Monday 15 February 1999 in New YorkCity From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:25:40 -0500 (EST) cc: jgleason@electriclichen.com, chris@netmoner.net, Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com> Sender: owner-nylug-talk@electriclichen.com We have need of the following: 1. a standard external modem 2. standard power cords, power strips, extension cords, a surge protector 3. standard telephone extension cords, various mating devices, and a toolkit for dealing with these things 4. CDs of various free OSes, with boot disks, if possible 5. as many boot/root/rescue kits as possible 6. blank floppies 7. magic markers and large sheets of paper. We are pretty sure we have enough laptops, but more are always welcome. If you do not bring any of the above come anyway! You are welcome just as you are! Reminder: Some will assemble at noon at the entrance of the building, 825 Eighth Avenue, which is between 50th and 49th Streets. All afternoon, others will come to that site, and also to the Day's Hotel, at 790 Eighth Avenue, between 49th and 48th Streets. Ask for the room of LXNY. This event is an all afternoon event, and we will be in the room from noon until 6:00 pm. Three Official Buyers will take delivery of their machines, and demonstrate that end users need not pay for what they do not want and will not use. All this will be carefully recorded and published. Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org