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FSF Wants Your Vouchers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the light-side-of-the-force dept.

Ridgelift writes "California residents can help support the Free Software Foundation by donating their Microsoft vouchers to the FSF. In turn, the FSF will be able to convert the vouchers into hardware. There's more information here at the FSF website. With 1.1 billion dollars in vouchers Microsoft is forced to pay through the recent anti-trust court case, it's satisfying to see some of those fortunes being spent to help create good software for a change."

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  1. Try begging while i give it to the EFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    oh wait i see you are
    sorry but i think the EFF is probably a better cause who do something tangible, not some pseudo organization who do not need to exist in order for people to give away their software for free

  2. Implicit assumption in the submission by ThePeeWeeMan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That only the FSF (and no other group!) can produce good software.

    Now, we know that MS, despite all the negative attention they get on /., doesn't always make terrible software, and that OSS doesn't always produce perfect or bug-free software.

    So I'm kinda surprised that the submitter (or editor?) thought they could get away with saying that MS software was bad.

  3. bleah =P by Bastian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Arright let's get the obligatory sentiments that come out every time the FSF is mentioned out of the way for everybody.

    RMS sucks, f0rK the FSF, what'd they ever do for me anyway, no more GNU software on my computer, I'm gonna go play with FreeBSD, now dammit where'd I put that compiler.

    Ok, now that I've said it for all of you please feel free to talk about something that hasn't been said a million times before.

  4. Re:Uh, good software? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your computer probably keeps crashing because you're an idiot. Which has nothing to do with Microsoft software.

  5. Re:I think... by Evil+Adrian · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why would a school want to spend money on a server platform like Linux? That's all Linux is good for at this point in time, because Linux, from a usability standpoint, is laughable. A newbie cannot use Linux without a ton of effort, as opposed to Windows or Mac OS X. The GUI's suck, and it's not very intuitive. That is why schools use Windows and Macintosh computers.

    Throwing even more money at free software doesn't mean it will "improve" from a school's standpoint (usability).

    The free software community has its priorities all wrong if it's actually trying to become accepted as a viable desktop platform. And it's not worth throwing money to the FSF unless some guarantees are made about where that money will go -- i.e., towards usability, where it could directly benefit education.

    --
    evil adrian