Context: the creator of Linux is from Finland

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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.

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67 points

Windows95man in the streets, Linuxman in the sheets.

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45 points

He’ll resolve all your dependencies

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12 points

Version requirements? No rules!

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5 points

Now that’s actually arousing.

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But if you piss him off, he’ll turn right back into Windows95man and send you into DLL-hell.

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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

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19 points

ReactOSman

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16 points

But Linux is a registered trademark, too.

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3 points

just dress up as john hodgman instead

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31 points

You may not like it, but this is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

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30 points

Linus gets that this is a joke, just like Windows.

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25 points

Someone needs to crash it dressed as 90’s Linus

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62 points

Windows 95 is quite capable of crashing itself.

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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)

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20 points

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.

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I know I’m late but do you remember what those accusations were about?

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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.

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No höh, ei löytynyt mitään kun etsiskelin. Varmaan mennyt peukkua näyttämään tai jotain yhtä dramaattista ja se sitten ylitulkittu.

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