FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign 926
CWmike writes "The Free Software Foundation today launched a campaign against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, calling it 'treacherous computing' that stealthily takes away rights from users. At the Web site Windows7Sins.org, the Boston-based FSF lists the seven 'sins' that proprietary software such as Windows 7 commits against computer users. They include: Poisoning education, locking in users, abusing standards such as OpenDocument Format (ODF), leveraging monopolistic behavior, threatening user security, enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy, and invading privacy. 'Windows, for some time now, has really been a DRM platform, restricting you from making copies of digital files,' said executive director Peter Brown. And if Microsoft's Trusted Computing technology were fully implemented the way the company would like, the vendor would have 'malicious and really complete control over your computer.'"
don't forget sloth (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks Microsoft.. I hope Win7 is as successful as Vista.
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:5, Funny)
Sure there has. I hear Steve threw some chairs around again.
sins, eh? (Score:4, Funny)
Windows may be guilty of 7 sins, but its main competitor on the desktop is derived from an OS with a daemonic mascot.
Re:These people are delusional. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh the irony,
The 90s called... (Score:5, Funny)
Is that a BLINK tag I am looking at? Just that makes FSF or whoever else uses it E.V.I.L. (c)
Re:"Teach a man to fish" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The 90s called... (Score:5, Funny)
They probably wrote it using a combination of Emacs macros and LaTex.
we want nakedness (Score:3, Funny)
this is anti-competitive and discriminates unfairly against Naked Computers
Re:These people are delusional. (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. You made a portmanteau of the words 'free' and 'retard'. Well, thats me converted. I'm going to format my Linux box, spend a few hundred on Windows and install it today!
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:1, Funny)
American history teaches that Hitler had huge popular support both before and during the war. Modern-day documentaries broadcast on American television agree. I've only ever heard two sources claiming otherwise: 1) Germans (excluding history teachers) 2) Movies starring Tom Cruise
Re:Slogan time (Score:5, Funny)
"The all-new Windows 7! What's in the box? "
Disappointment.
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. Those which often cry "freedom" often forget that my freedom includes the freedom of choosing the choices they dislike. I have chosen Windows 7, and I'm damn happy I did so.
Oh, you rebel you!
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:5, Funny)
Miley Cyrus has double-Ds?
Hot damn, I need to pay more attention to pop culture.
Re:These people are delusional. (Score:3, Funny)
It's just that it's anything but shocking. I mean, if you saw a corrupt politician on TV, wouldn't you do anything but mutter "meh" before changing the channel to something else?
Well, I might throw up a campaign that takes about ten minutes to organize and write onto my webpage against said politician, if that's what you mean.
Re:FSF is not very truthful in this campaign (Score:3, Funny)
thereby driving Itunes.com out of business.
That made my day, thank you.
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And we should attack the FSF... (Score:3, Funny)