Comment Little Red Box (Score 1) 131
The Chinese Communist Party has called on all loyal cadre to "email bombard the headquarters and push the revisionist Microsoft roaders into the sea". Beijing announced Friday that it will be replacing all Microsoft technology with that of the open source Linux operating system. Party officials ordered all comrades to burn Mao's "Little Red Book" and replace it with "little red boxes".
In Tienanmen Square enormous statues of penguins appeared and the old slogans were replaced by the new;
"An Application is not a Dinner Party"
"All Power Comes Out of The Keyboard of a Geek"
"Let a Thousand Operating Systems Bloom"
George W. Bush weighed in on the announcement from a campain stop in Silicon Valley; "I knew when I heard about that RED Hat Linux company that that was something totally uncool. Any computer type thing where you can actually go in and see the code for how the thing works and stuff-that's just un-American! Those commie Red Hats probably stole the Los Alamos disks too!"
In kicking out Microsoft, officials for the Communist Party stated that there simply was only room for one Monopolistic power in China - the Communist Party. Chen Chong, a deputy minister of information industries stated; "Adopting Linux as the most favored operating system of China will free us from dependence on Microsoft and put us on the fast track to automating the whole country into one big prison labor factory." He went on to denounce the following privately registered domain names as examples of the excesses of bourgeoise decadence and counter revolutionary activity:
http://www.Marxist-Linuxist.com
http://www.RedChineseLinux.com
http://www.CommunistLinux.com
