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FSF Launches "BadVista" Campaign
FrankNFurter writes to note the launch yesterday of the FSF's BadVista campaign against Microsoft's new operating system. BadVista's aim is to inform users about the alleged harms inflicted by Vista on the user and about free software alternatives. Quoting program administrator John Sullivan: "Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows is already proprietary and very restrictive, and well worth rejecting. But the new 'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse to smuggle in even more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they work, how to resist them, and why people should care."
Looks like they did:
- Vista is a Microsoft product
- Vista is bad
Well, they just launched the site yesterday, so I guess it's a work in progress. I guess they'll be posting things as they think of them.
The only thing more pathetic than a PC user is a PC user trying to be a Mac user. We have a name for you people: switcheurs.
There's a good reason for your vexation at the release history of OS X and Apple's record of antipathy towards Trusted Computing: You don't speak its language. Remember that the Mac was designed by artists, for artists, be they poets, musicians, or avant-garde mathematicians. A shiny new Mac can introduce your frathouse hovel to a modicum of good taste, but it can't make Mac users out of dweebs and squares like you.
So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that suits your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.
Its so bad.
God spoke to me.
What is Linux without GNU! It's GNU/Linux/GNU, you insensitive clod!
- St. Ignucious (aka RMS)
Kind of reminds me of the jews that ran to the USSR in WWII... why can't they just be told to use Mandrake or Ubuntu? Better then getting them locked into someone else, who is actualy worse as far as DRM goes then MS. At least MS doens't have hardware control.
Wow, your analogy is as inappropriate as screwing a puppy in church.
That's right. The best way to attract costumers is with fun costume parties around the end of October and during Mardi Gras.
Vista is Bad. Use Linux. Use GPL software.
Forget Linux, I'm waiting for GNU/HURD. Any day now...
There is also no doubt - you click "I agree" and the rights are gone...
my 14 year old daughter finished all installs and clicks all EULA agreements. I dont havethat problem as a minor cant enter into a contract so MSFT is fucked in my regard.
I give up nothing. but then I dont ever plan on buying Vista... I may try the pirated verson after all the restrictions and problems are removed by the warez guys.
I must of entered the twilight zone..
I never thought I'd see so many rabid slashdotters ATTACKING the FSF and DEFENDING Microsoft.
It's the beginning of the end!!!
And like Google's "Upgrade to IE7" page!
An issue that has received little to no press is Vista's environmental impact. If Microsoft succeeds in convincing users to upgrade to powerful graphics cards to handle its new Aero user interface, power consumption will dramatically increase on hundreds of millions of computers around the planet.
It is ironic that the Gates foundation has been performing such good works in Africa while at the same time, Microsoft is on the verge of releasing a disastrous contribution to global warming.
"Seems to me people are flocking to be 'a tenant in a system where someone else retains ultimate control'."
Just because there are not free alternatives for everything, yet, or that some people will choose to give up their freedoms for extra features does NOT mean that the FSF fighting for freedom or trying to inform people isn't a worthy cause.
So let the other people 'flock' towards systems where others are in control, if they do not put a premium on their freedom then that is their choice - the best anyone can do is try to inform people of the short comings of non-free software, and the alternatives, which is exactly what BadVista is doing.
"No, if it was launched yesterday then it should have been finished some time before then."
They are modeling the site's schedule after Vista. Vista was suppose to be finished years ago too.
9. Storage Space: With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Hardly relevant, any hard drive sold within the last few years will allow > 100GB.
Yes, everyone knows that every laptop sold in the last few years had a >100GB, wicked-fast drive in it.
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Yesterday? When it's on Slashdot? That website must have been up for a couple of months!
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
``Well, they just launched the site yesterday, so I guess it's a work in progress. I guess they'll be posting things as they think of them.''
Alright. I guess I'll wait for the dupe, then.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
``A sticker does not enable some magic compatibility.''
And here I was thinking that "Designed for Windows $version" meant "We threw in the crap winmodems that won't work with anything else".
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
So it can store The Microsoft Sound in all its symphonic glory with the bitrate it deserves.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Fuck seeing the beauty. Fix the fucking sound.