Windows95Man to represent Finland in Eurovision. Linus Torvalds must be so disappointed
Windows95Man to represent Finland in Eurovision. Linus Torvalds must be so disappointed
Context: the creator of Linux is from Finland
He won't be allowed to perform at Eurovision with the Windows 95 name/trademark/logo, so it would be hilarious if he switches to a name like Linuxman during it.
It's still unclear if he's allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) "Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed"
But EBU might have a different stance ofc
ReactOSman
But Linux is a registered trademark, too.
just dress up as john hodgman instead
Linus gets that this is a joke, just like Windows.
You may not like it, but this is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
Someone needs to crash it dressed as 90's Linus
Windows 95 is quite capable of crashing itself.
It showed a blue screen when you ejected a CD with the button on the CD drive, while it was reading from the CD. (At the same time, Linux would just disable the button until the CD was not in use aka unmounted)
On the day he won, he was accused for being a right-wing advocate on front page, but for some unknown reason those articles disappeared in just couple of hours.
I know I'm late but do you remember what those accusations were about?
En kyllä todellakaan jaksanu lukea sitä :D menin iltalehden etusivulle ja ensimmäisenä vastassa otsikko jotakuinkin "huomasitko viisufinaalissa? Windows95Man ja äärioikeistolainen symboliikka" Ei sanasta sanaan noin, mutta noita sanoja käyttäen.
Pari tuntia myöhemmim yritin etsiä uutista näyttääkseni sen kaverille mutta ei löytynyt enää mistään.
Plot Twist: Windows95man is Linus Torvalds. Have you seen him lately? Maybe that's his thing now.
Never seen them both in the same room
For a slightly better chance against Linux he should have called himself windows XP man. 95 was shit if I remember correctly.
95 was amazeballs for what it did at the time to personal computing.
But there was a reason it got replaced with NT.
I think Windows has been shit since it was an app that sat on top of dos. It's gotten a lot better now in countless ways, but overall, it's gotten worse than better. There was a time where I couldn't/wouldn't consider an alternative as a daily driver from 95 through to the end of 7 support really.
The enshitification of windows got worse with 10 (11 is another order of magnitude) and the oncoming eos, drove me off again about 18 months ago and I've been happier for it.
Every Windows version was shit when it came out, then became good through updates by the time the next version came out.
Except for Windows ME and 8, which were just shit.
they came in second last year and couldn't handle it so they have to go back being last.
Kärjää was so fun. Far and away the televote favorite, too.
Jury votes
Sweden 340
Israel 177 (seriously?)
Italy 176
Finland 150
Televote
Finland 376
Sweden 243
Norway 216
Ukraine 189
The jury system is bullshit and needs to go.
That performance was peak Eurovision though! I have never been so entertained by an entry before!
I'm a bit partial to Spain's performance this year with their Bitch ("zorra") song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZqlQZ0_us