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  • Microsoft Is a Bunch of Stealing Crooks (Actually, They Both Stole a Religious Symbol With Deep Cultural Meaning)

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Monday, July 16th, 2007

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    Apple knows Taoism. Their devices have a yin and a yang and the human isn’t dreaming it’s a laptop, it’s a laptop dreaming it’s a human, dig? That’s why their Universal symbol is a yin/yang. Trippy. So when Microsoft flips the symbol and slaps Vista and XPOffice logos on there, the fanbois go mad with frothing anger. I think Lao Tzu should actually be angry in this situation — after all, both companies are hijacking his teachings to flog software — but that dude has so much inner peace he makes Steven Seagal look like Gonzo.

    WTF?

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