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28.04.03 ACOS: an anti-capitalist operating system.
This is "user friendly" even in its name. The 'Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC)' (TWCDC) collective has made an operating system really for the users, as opposed to a view of software as a proprietary item. The collective states that, by building one's own operating system, it's possible to hack and defeat capitalism. The proof is ACOS, whose interface resembles Windows, but provides tools and contents much more "personalized", to infiltrate the power and overturn it. It sports the same icons, files and folders of Windows but, once the user starts clicking, it behaves very differently. ACOS version 2.0, copyleft of course, offers a new interface, new programs, a new control panel, new background images. The best features of this system can be found among the programs: Will Work, Bed-In For Peace, The Guerrilla Tea Room, Citibank Global Domination. Will Work is a program to find a job in the capitalist society without being a capitalist; Bed-In For Peace is an action conceived by Yoko Ono and John Lennon to protest against the Vietnam war: today, staying in bed, the user can participate to a 48 hours long debate on war, video-conferencing with other people from Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, USA, Korea, United Kingdom and Australia; Guerrilla Tea Room is a prototype of a program to manage a franchising enterprise of anarchistic tea rooms in the whole world; Citibank Global Domination proposes the use of bank profits to support environmental protection programmes. The makers of ACOS are: Amy Berk, theorist and feminist pop-artist; Andy Cox, civil engineer, artist and activist; Gabriel Guzman, film and video editor; Stephen Hartzog, artist, web programmer and teacher; David LAwrence, artist and iconoclastic media activist; Lluis Vall, theatre artist; Megan Wilson, artist and consultant for no-profit organizations.