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Chinese protester pwned Bill Gates

Friday, 20. April 2007, 15:51:47

It's not often that you get a Chinese protester, actually in China, but when you see one, they certainly make an impact.



Earlier today the Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was at Peking University. While he handed out certificates to a line of students, one young man from the audience rushed the stage with a piece of paper daubed with “Free software Open source” in English, and shouting those words loudly, for good measure. Top-class pwnage!

Follow this link for the original news story (in Chinese) which also contains a clip of the young Chinese man's lil' demo. He is, officially, our hero of the day.

UPDATE: Here's a better-angled photo, showing Big Bill himself in the background, looking on with good humour.

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Anonymous 24. April 2007, 01:11

Anonymous writes:

Nice blog! I am new to here, and wondering whether u can read Chinese, if can't, how can u find all those links to stories in Chinese.

peoplesrepublicof 24. April 2007, 11:29

thanks for yr comment, mate. i can read some chinese, but not enough to understand a full story. often i find an english article about the chinese article, first. there are so many blogs these days, so news travels fast, even between languages!

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