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I dunno, maybe I wanted a short summary in your own words

Then you would have received it eight hhours later. If you still prefer to read rather than watch, please allow me to quote another related essay:

"The education of children represents a major revenue stream for Microsoft, and a strategic opportunity to embed their products into the lives of future adults. [...] Where else do we see one corporation able to put their marketing and corporate branded materials in front of children as requirements in this way?" --Windows 7 Sins: Education

EA makes every day "Fuck You, You're Going To Buy Our Games Anyway" Day.

Exhibit A:

Best Sellers in PC-compatible Games

We begin with the Slashdot tradition of promoting an event on the day of the event.

There are four events scheduled, one in Bangladesh.

The FOSS Bangladesh are suspending their website (www.fossbd.org) with an image banner, focusing the Day Against DRM-2013 and its cruel effects on IT world, activated from today, 30 April, 2013. Join us on a roadside stands as a Human ties with banners, plackerds and festoons in front of the TSC area at "Raju Circle". As it to exposes the Day Aganists DRM and why we are against DRM and DRM on HTML5.

Day Against DRM - May 3rd, 2013

You cannot make this stuff up.

There will be the inevitable petitions to the W3C and handouts outside the Microsoft Store in Seattle and that is pretty much it.

I was pleased to discover that the EFF page for the International Day Against DRM links to 2009's Windows7 Sins. campaign.

Who can forget --- Windows 7 Sins --- The Video?

WARNING
The website you are about to visit, update.microsoft.com , may harm your computer.
Find out more
Get me out of here

Proceed to to update.microsoft.com

However you can't argue with his consistency.

Sure you can. He has made many speeches where he says that pirating copyright software is the right thing to do, because you're sticking it to the evil people who write such software, while he demands that his own copyright license (the GPL) be respected.

He's also a whack-job. His latest "campaign" is brain-dead Who in their right mind would think that writing a letter to, for example, IBM, offering to help them with open source, is anything but an insult and a waste of time? Or mailing it to Best Buy after the lawsuits? What a dope!

The fact is that he hasn't been able to write code in decades (the current gnu emacs is actually an import of the xemacs code, ditto for gcc being an import of egcs, because he totally screwed up both). So of course, he now makes his money bashing those who can.

His Steve Jobs remarks put him on the same level as Fred Phelps (perhaps even lower - I don't think even Phelps is going to eat his boogers and foot cheese in front of people because it's "finger-licking good", or tell women to "remove their spawn").

He's the guy putting "Open Sores" in open source.

The sad part is that FSF is agonizingly inefficient in its advocacy campaigns, even when their complaints do have merit (like in this case - Nintendo's language is absurd and offensive). I don't know who writes their campaign material - Stallman himself? - but more often than not it comes across as whiny and childish, and at times it's so cult-like that it's downright creepy.

For example, "Windows 7 Sins" - the creepiness starts right with the name. And then the very first paragraph - it's not about DRM, or monoculture, or any other points which can be reasonably argued. No, the biggest sin is that "it's proprietary software. Users are not permitted to share or modify the Windows software, or examine how it works inside". Because the users (whom this campaign is supposed to be targeted at) would care about this...

Don't forget the Windows 7 Sins which you have just GOT to love! If this isn't proof that RMS and pals sees F/OSS not as simply an alternative software model but a religion I don't know what does.

While personally I respected the reasons why RMS did what he did, such as writing the GPL because he couldn't modify a printer driver and believed that users should have a "fitness of purpose" right where if the software didn't do what was needed the user could modify or pay someone to modify said software until it was fit for purpose, I think he is starting to reach the PETA "Sea Kittens" phase of overboard crazy.

I mean what happened to the freedom to choose which license you wanted, and the users freedom to choose whether to accept it or not? it isn't like anyone is forcing those millions upon millions of users to use Google services. Lately it seems that "Its a Trap!" should be the catch phrase for RMS as he sees EVERYTHING that isn't 100% F/OSS as a trap.

I mean for the love of Pete the man uses some rare POS Loongson netbook because the fricking OLPC wasn't "free" enough for him because it had firmware in the wireless! There is such a thing as going overboard and hurting the cause, and I think RMS screaming "Trap!" to everything that doesn't follow his line is hurting more than it is helping the F/OSS movement by making it look like a bunch of extremists.

I am perfectly well informed about what FOSS and its philosophy is, what the implications are, etc. As a programmer, I see some relevance in it, but even then I also see that its applicability is rather narrow. As a user, it really concerns me very little in practice. It's not the only solution to DRM, for example, and even then I do not find all DRM to be worth fighting (over a hundred games in my Steam account and still buying more, for example...).

Childish stuff like this does not help at all, by the way.

And just an addendum, if we didn't use "loaded word usage" we would simply be ignored.

Do you have any evidence that it actually helps?

It's actually one remarkable difference between Open Source and Free Software propaganda campaigns - the latter are almost always received with derisive laughter from pretty much everyone but those participating in them, for their sheer stupitidy. Here would be one recent example of such. OSS guys at least talk about how and why their stuff is good, not about how teh evil proprietors are taking over the world.

Just because you think it is fine that the millions of FOSS users could not use YouTube/wikipedia(if they didn't make this stand), doesn't mean we agree.

Frankly, I would be extremely surprised if FOSS purists (which are people who wouldn't use anything non-FOSS, such as Flash) would number even in tens of thousands, much less millions, worldwide. Non-purists don't actually have the "can't use" problem - they'll use either the Flash version, or they'll use Chrome (which comes with a built-in licensed decoder), or they'll buy the GStreamer codec, or they'll just ignore the U.S. law and use ffmpeg or whatever.

http://windows7sins.org/

They make some good points.

I don't know about you, but any company that feels the only way they can sell their product is to basically slander their competitors isn't likely to get my attention.

hear, hear

*ducks*

P.S. just because the summary on /. uses the term "slander" doesn't mean they engaged in slander. It may be a smear campaign, or probably more appropriately: FUD, but slander has a very specific legal meaning and nothing in the back-and-forth 'interview' appears to be slanderous.

The bug is yet another Vista 7 failure due to M$'s inclusion of digital restrictions management. M$ has proved once again Windoze 7 is Vista Service Pack as this "bug" also affects Vista and Vista Server 2008, all of which comes at the cost to your freedom and security.

--
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Friends do assist M$ addicted friends in committing suicide.

Of course 90% of the people do not care too much about most of the questions shown at
http://windows7sins.org/

A lot of what's on that site is the sort of blatant hypocrisy that we've come to expect from the FSF, anywayz.

Poisoning education? I've got two words in response to that; #gnu-generation. Stallman isn't going to have any credibility accusing anyone else of engaging in mind control, until he stops doing it himself. I'm guessing that the response I get to this very post will likely prove my point on that score, as well.

I can tell you what this campaign does wrong. For starters, they could get a decent web designer to fix the crap that is their main page. First and foremost, this is the first site I see using <BLINK> (well, text-decoration: blink, to be pedantic) in a few years. This has been labeled a design choice ranking just below using orange text on red background sometime in 2001 or so.

The "Loading" progress bar is also both pointless (why, you need a progress bar for an HTML website?) and broken - it was sitting there for over a minute for me before disappearing, and I don't know what it was doing for all that time - scrolling down in the frame where it was displayed showed all content loaded just fine (and by the way, why can I even scroll that?).

The rest of the website looks like it was designed by a 14 year old learning the basics. If it was a plain simplistic mostly-text page (like most other FSF sites are), it would actually be fine. But it tries to pretend that it's something more, and fails utterly because it just makes it look too primitive.

On a side note, for all the rhetoric about choice, I wonder why it doesn't respect my browser font settings. The CSS has this wonderful bit:

body { font: 13px/1.231 arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; }

So, it ignores my font sizes, and specifies its size in pixels and not points (so it won't scale if I change DPI settings), and it prefers a specific font family rather than the generic sans-serif (which is configured to display the font that I like - and I hate Arial). Again, in stark contrast to most other FSF pages, which usually use dull but otherwise sane approach, and don't try to second-guess me.

"We call such limitations, antifeatures. An antifeature is functionality that a technology developer will charge users to not include"