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FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-long-way-to-absolution dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:And we should attack the FSF... by CarpetShark · · Score: 4, Funny

    There has already been some uproar about this being a stupid campaign

    Sure there has. I hear Steve threw some chairs around again.

  2. sins, eh? by Trepidity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows may be guilty of 7 sins, but its main competitor on the desktop is derived from an OS with a daemonic mascot.

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  3. Re:These people are delusional. by dnaumov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Otherwise, stop the smear campaign.

    Oh the irony,

  4. The 90s called... by xtracto · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... They wanted their web-design pages back.

    Is that a BLINK tag I am looking at? Just that makes FSF or whoever else uses it E.V.I.L. (c)

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    1. Re:The 90s called... by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Funny

      They probably wrote it using a combination of Emacs macros and LaTex.

  5. Re:These people are delusional. by damburger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. You made a portmanteau of the words 'free' and 'retard'. Well, thats me converted. I'm going to format my Linux box, spend a few hundred on Windows and install it today!

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  6. Re:Slogan time by duguk · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The all-new Windows 7! What's in the box? "

    Disappointment.

  7. Re:And we should attack the FSF... by node+3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. Those which often cry "freedom" often forget that my freedom includes the freedom of choosing the choices they dislike. I have chosen Windows 7, and I'm damn happy I did so.

    Oh, you rebel you!

  8. Re:And we should attack the FSF... by LuvlyOvipositor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Miley Cyrus has double-Ds?

    Hot damn, I need to pay more attention to pop culture.

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