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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. How about the EFF? by routerwhore · · Score: 5, Informative
    Somehow in this day and age of big brother paranoia (and RMS lunacy), the EFF seems to be a more appropriate place to donate.

    EFF
    Attn: MS Voucher
    454 Shotwell St.
    San Francisco, CA 94110

  2. Re:Try begging while i give it to the EFF by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Something tangible like 273 software packages? Little items like Glibc, GCC, Bash, and the GIMP.

    Note that these are GNU packages, meaning that they are provided by the FSF. There are thousands more packages that are merely distributed under the terms of the GPL/LGPL.

    -Peter

  3. Morals by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 5, Informative
    Well, let's see. During the anti-trust trial in the U.S. one of Microsoft's executives testified under oath that Microsoft's code was so full of holes it would be a threat to national security to open it up. Then the company turns around and offers code to China. So was it treason or perjury? I don't see an in-between there. Neither strikes me as ethical or moral.

    Ok how about just perjury alone. Forged video evidence was also presented in the anti-trust trial in the U.S.

    Ok how about the court's decision, upheld on appeal, that the company used illegal methods to maintain a desktop monopoly?

    There are also the false and misleading advertising, against palm, novell, and regarding MS-Passport. MS-Passport cannot be secure even in theory, so any claims were clearly known to be falsehoods. And since MS-Office 2003 is tied into that, expect more legal action.

    Then there have been a series of fines regarding patent infringements. The most recent being from SPX.

    Where I come from, all that's called lying or stealing.

    --
    Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.