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'Lame Duck challenge' met, so software is free
StarTribune ^
| 10/26/08
| Randy Salas
Posted on 10/26/2008 7:30:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
President Bush gets a lot of grief over the economic woes that have occurred under his watch, but now people can thank him for something spiffy: Free software. It comes courtesy of the Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge.
In July, St. Paul software developer CodeWeavers came up with the gimmick to make its products available free for a day if any one of five positive (but seemingly unlikely at the time) things happened during Bush's last six months in office: gas drops to $2.79 a gallon, milk drops to $3.50 a gallon, U.S. jobs exceed 138 million, the Twin Cities median home price returns to $233,000 or Osama bin Laden is captured.
Bingo on No. 1.
>>>SNIP<<<
So on Tuesday, all of CodeWeavers products, which allow Mac and Linux users to run Windows applications, can be downloaded for free -- instead of $40 each -- at the company's website, www.codeweavers.com.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Local News
KEYWORDS: free; freesoftware; lameduck; linux; mac; windows
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FYI....
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
10/26/2008 7:58:25 PM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(Visit my blog: Chronic Positivity - http://chronicpositivity.com)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Thanks! You’d better put us on ping list and remind us on Tuesday!!!
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posted on
10/26/2008 8:07:10 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: steve86
Be a good conservative and do for yourself....
;-)
(I couldn’t resist...)
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posted on
10/26/2008 8:09:42 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Read FR first.....THEN read Drudge.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Well - Yahoo! I use the code weavers product all the time - and a free upgrade sounds just wonderful.. I’ll be on the download wagon this Tuesday!
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posted on
10/26/2008 8:18:00 PM PDT
by
fremont_steve
(Milpitas - a great place to be FROM!)
To: fremont_steve
Presumably the free downloads won't be granted updates themselves -- or will they, according to the normal license. Anyway, I wonder if some of us will be back to Wine eventually. Not whining, mind you.
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posted on
10/26/2008 9:17:19 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ...
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posted on
10/27/2008 5:20:55 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Swordmaker; Born Conservative
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posted on
10/27/2008 6:51:12 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
10/27/2008 6:51:45 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(Why do we drive a on a Parkway but park on a Driveway)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
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posted on
10/27/2008 6:55:09 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(Why do we drive a on a Parkway but park on a Driveway)
To: 1234; 50mm; 6SJ7; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AmericanGirlRising; aristotleman; ...
Free Software... because Gas came down!!! Codeweavers' Crossover, that allows some Windows software to run on Macs
without Windows will be a free download on Tuesday! $40 savings ...PING!
Also free are Codeweavers' Windows applications. Codeweavers' Chromium browser for Mac and Linux is also free.
Mac Freebies Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
10/27/2008 8:18:34 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
This ties in nicely with the “Why are so many geeks liberal” thread the other day. It’ll be fun to take advantage of some of them.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten.
BTW, they’re a bunch of classy folks up there. This was, in essence, a protest, but they did it in a creative and patriotic way, and I appreciate that.
I wish them continued success in their business.
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posted on
10/27/2008 12:34:59 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
(I ain't your Daddy's Conservative, OK?)
To: steve86
On Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, any one visiting the CodeWeavers' Web site (www.codeweavers.com) will be given a deal code that will entitle them to one free copy of CodeWeavers' award-winning CrossOver software. Each copy comes complete with support.
The press release.
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posted on
10/27/2008 12:38:39 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
(I ain't your Daddy's Conservative, OK?)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Thanks for catching that.
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posted on
10/27/2008 6:23:11 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(Palin --- She who can shoot a moose can shoot a Russian bear.)
To: Sundog
I’m compiling a ping list for tomorrow to remind y’all....
Yer in...
;-)
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posted on
10/27/2008 6:37:57 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Read FR first.....THEN read Drudge.)
To: Swordmaker
Wow, what a deal! So, what's the link? :'D
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posted on
10/27/2008 7:24:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
To: ShadowAce; Born Conservative; steve86; fremont_steve; conservatism_IS_compassion; Swordmaker; ...
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posted on
10/27/2008 8:04:04 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Read FR first.....THEN read Drudge.)
To: Swordmaker
I’m relatively new to Macs, anything on here worth downloading?
Mac version of Photoshop?
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posted on
10/27/2008 8:29:56 PM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(Barack Obama is not your hip black friend)
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