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FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign
CWmike writes "The Free Software Foundation today launched a campaign against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, calling it 'treacherous computing' that stealthily takes away rights from users. At the Web site Windows7Sins.org, the Boston-based FSF lists the seven 'sins' that proprietary software such as Windows 7 commits against computer users. They include: Poisoning education, locking in users, abusing standards such as OpenDocument Format (ODF), leveraging monopolistic behavior, threatening user security, enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy, and invading privacy. 'Windows, for some time now, has really been a DRM platform, restricting you from making copies of digital files,' said executive director Peter Brown. And if Microsoft's Trusted Computing technology were fully implemented the way the company would like, the vendor would have 'malicious and really complete control over your computer.'"
The argument from the freetards runs probably in the direction that you need to be current on software assurance to go from XP to 7, but going from Debian 2.x to Debian 3.x is free.
I'd imagine it's impossible for the average user of a Windows machine to avoid automatic downloading of updates, which can also automatically reboot your machine even if you're in the middle of work but happen to have left the machine alone a bit.
At the risk of being yelled at for a Godwin, remember that Hitler was bought to power in an election as legitimate as some recent US ones.
Point is not that MS are Nazis (Such comparisons diminish the horrors of Nazism), but that certain free choices diminish choice further down the line. The FSF aren't telling people Windows 7 ought to be banned; they are trying to warn people that choosing Windows 7 will impact on their choices further down the line.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
A modern PC can be used to do that, which makes you a lying sack of shit. If you can only make some petty jibe by completely misrepresenting my point, you've lost the argument already.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Again, lying sack of shit. I didn't enumerate the alternative (modern PCs running free software) because to anybody with a functioning brain it was obvious from the context of the article.
So you just come along with some ridiculous bullshit about wanting to push obselete hardware on schools. You are truly pathetic.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?