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."

Comments

The wisdom of crowds

[The Bungi]

This is probably going to be a massive "M$ IS TEH SUX" and "Windoze crashes every five minutes, use Linux instead" religious FUD campaign, except that now it will be officially sanctioned by the FSF. I'm guessing they figure what worked for the browser (GET FIREFOX OR YOU WILL DIE!!!) will work for the operating system as well.

Be careful what you wish for, Moglen, Stallman et.al. You just might get it.

hating microsoft is so 90s

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't this joker realize that hating microsoft is such a 90s thing to do?

Here in the 00s we hate on google instead.

Re:Most important aspect?

[flyneye]

So you might as well run Win98 then,eh?

Oops, bad links

[The Bungi]

Do you still have bad things to say about Bruce Perens?

I'm not sure twitter. Do you still have bad things to say about "Ali Baba" or whatever the hell you were trying to do with this post?

BTW, I'm delighted that you saved one of my posts for future reference. Me, I filed this one away once. Always comes in handy when you try to be clever.

Re:More detail (Re:"Treacherous Computing" "Genuin

[rtb61]

One minor point, so you are saying that you are smarter than all those investors, who invest in properties and rent them out, gee they must all be pretty stupid, perhaps you should advise them of the folly of property ownership.