Pictures from Windows Refund Day: New York, 2/15/99
Special thanks to Nick Williams who took these shots. - Jim
Jim Gleason, President of The New York Linux Users Group, with the self-evident
placard.
Amy Harmon from the New York Times at the hotel observing the installation of a
free operating system.
Microsoft security outside World View Plaza tell us no.
Jim with Jay Sulzberg, LXNY secretary and winner of the Linus Torvalds World Community
award, wait in the cold for a response.
On the phone outside Microsoft headquarters trying to get a refund.
Microsoft reps come down to hand us pre-prepared responses.
Holding the pre-prepared response which basically says - call your OEM, refunds
of Windows software are not Microsoft's responsibility.
Jim asks for a copy of the software license. (Note: the license is inside the shrink-wrapped
package Jim is holding, but if he opens the shrink-wrap, he ruins his chance to
get a refund.)
Jason Perlow of ZDNet trys to make sense of the irony.
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