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Free software body points finger at 'Bad Vista' | |
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| Time: 06:02 EST/11:02 GMT | News Source: TechWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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As Windows Vista begins rolling out to business customers, the Free Software Foundation has launched a website devoted to taking Microsoft's latest operating system down a peg. The "Bad Vista" site promises to expose the ways Vista imposes more controls on users via anti-piracy measures, content copy protection and other new technologies - aspects that have already raised concerns in the industry. "Whilst Microsoft embarks upon its largest-ever product launch, its marketing dollars will be spent in an effort to fool the media and user community about the goals of Vista," said FSF executive director Peter Brown on the site. "We aim to demonstrate that technologists can be social activists, because we know the harm that Vista will cause." | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at 12/19/2006 10:21:15 AM |
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When users get upset with a product they move to another one. Windows Vista, in general, works great. It has a long way to go to really piss off the average user.
Last week, for the first time, I had a customer ask me to install Linux on his PC to dual boot with Windows, so he can "play" with it. I installed Xandros. He said he only uses his PC for web browsing, e-mail, word processing and other basic functions where Linux is capable. His new camera, and other peripherals that he owns, all have Linux drivers available. If Vista’s “features” really annoy people, a very unlikely scenario, then MS will pay the price, eventually. People will learn that Windows is not the computer, but only an OS that software runs on. I believe that MS is far too smart of a company to see that happen without responding in the marketplace. |
| #2 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 12/19/2006 10:27:20 AM |
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Software Taliban
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36429 "FREEDOM. IT'S ALL ABOUT FREEDOM, apparently. Nasty old Microsoft must be stopped at all costs and the lovely kitten and fluffy bunny-friendly open source alternatives must be adopted instead. This is the latest proclamation from Grand Ayatollah John Sullivan of the extremist Free Software Foundation, adding that Microsoft eats babies and has evil plans to stop people stealing music and videos. Leaving aside for a moment that the FSF is largely comprised of sad loners of questionable hygiene who still live with their mothers, surely freedom to choose an OS means you can use any one you fancy, not just the ones that aren't on the FSF's List Of Death™? Like all fundamentalists, the FSF fervently believes that if you ain't with 'em, you're agin 'em. What they believe is right and everyone else is wrong. You are free to choose as long as you choose to agree with them. For people like this to bleat about freedom is disingenuous in the extreme. The software Taliban want to impose their will on you because it's for your own good. They are the way, the truth and the light. No you're not, guys. You're a bunch of people who should get out more. No normal person gives a rat's ass about operating systems. They just want to get on with their jobs. No one else cares if the software has a window or a penguin on it, as long as it works. I already have freedom of choice in what operating system I use and I choose Microsoft. " This post was edited by NotParker on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 10:27. |
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