Crazed Hungarian eggs Steve Ballmer
Some may find this funny, but I felt sick to my stomach watching this clip. Ballmer was in Hungary talking to an audience that seems to be students and professors at a University, when this crazed idiot gets up shouting in an un-understandable accent (allegedly the language he was speaking was english), and asks for ‘the hungarian taxpayers’ money’ back. What the hell? Use friggin’ Linux if you want to, egg carrying crazy man. Go waste your life figuring out how to get Linux drivers for your wireless card to work! Nobody forced the Hungarian taxpayers to buy Windows, so just cut the crap. All in all, this incident is so damn indecent, it’s just shocking.
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And what’s more shocking is that after the egg chucking craziness, the ass just walks himself out WITHOUT A SINGLE PERSON in the audience intervening (i.e. pinning him to the floor). He’s just shown his way out with no physical contact. Any reasonably organized event that has the CEO of the world’s largest software company on stage would have SOME security. Why didn’t this guy get his behind glued to the deck, eggs and all?
I don’t know whether there was any criminal action against the egg wielding anarchist, but until there is, Microsoft execs should absolutely boycott the institution/city where this happened. According to the CIA World Fact Book, Hungary’s total government revenues are around $62BN, which is about the same as Microsoft’s 2008 revenue expectation of $58BN. For an economy Hungary’s size, a company like Microsoft could be a huge help; an investor, an enabler and a promoter of Hungarian businesses. They’ve done that in other countries regardless of the propaganda against them. A single egg-wielding crazy has jeopardized the potential goodwill towards the country. How ridiculous!
And by the way, I’ve admired Ballmer’s tenacity for many years. This just gives me another opportunity to see how the big man deals with a situation that would ruffle lesser mortals. He just says, “Well, that was a friendly interruption” at the end of it, and within a few seconds is back to his speech. TechLahore salutes you, Steve! Good luck to you!

