The CodeWeavers Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge
This is one of those things that makes mac developers soooo much cooler than windows devs.
The CEO of codeweavers, a company that creates virtualization software (it lets you install windows apps and games on a mac or linux without installing windows) laid down a silly challenge that seemed more PR stunt than genuine. It said that if POTUS (president of the united states) managed to meet one of four goals:
- Reduce the Price of Gas: Gas costs about $3.79 a gallon in the Twin Cities, a full buck more than this time last year. If the average price here drops below $2.79 per gallon, this goal is met.
- Reduce the Price of Food: With the rise of fuel prices has come a similar rise in food prices. A gallon of milk is about $5 these days. It was $3.50 a year ago. If the average price of a gallon of milk comes down to $3.50 gallon in the Twin Cities metro, this goal is met.
- Create More Jobs: We started the year with 138,002,000 people in the U.S. working non-farm jobs. Since then, total non-farm employment has decreased by 366,000. If so much as a single job can be created this calendar year - meaning if employment can be at least 138,002,001, this goal is met.
- Rejuvenate the Housing Market: Median home values in the Twin Cities have fallen 12 percent year over year - from $233,000 to $205,000. If that median returns to $233,000, this goal is met.
- Bring Osama Bin-Laden to Justice: Every American would like to see Osama Bin-Laden captured or terminated. We won’t be picky about how President Bush gets him. If it happens, this goal is met.
Codeweavers would give away their software for one day. Well Global economies have tanked and oil dropped and though it might not be the fault or doing of one George W. Bush Codeweaver is true to their word. So have it Tuesday oct 28th only.
