badvista.fsf.org — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights.
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hyperhackerDec 16, 2006
You've got it backward. Go order some fast food, and you'll get a free plate and utensils. :-)
hyperhackerDec 16, 2006
iFanboys? Given iTunes' and iPod's DRM, I find that offensive. This is about stopping DRM, not Microsoft. It targets Vista because Vista is loaded with DRM.
xmilkyDec 16, 2006
@tokyopimp: MS Office is indeed the better office suite - it has a far more responsive GUI and many more features, and the menus or even help system often feel more intuitive. I'm however completely satisfied with OpenOffice (and MS doesn't run well on my platform anyhow). It suffices _for me_, and therefore I'd never though about wasting money on MS Office and unlike in the past or other people I no longer have to pirate software.Apart from price and features there are however other important value differences. For example try to open your MS Office files 10 years down the road... Or phone your vendor to get an annoying bug fixed - you'll be laughed at loudly on the pone, while I'd probably get my patchfix within a day, and for free or a beer.Sure, you get what you paid for. Free and open source software doesn't usually match up with commercial offerings, but it's certainly "good enough" for the majority of people. If we'd win enough open source users or could kill off piracy completey, this was the end for commercial software (or made it *extremely* expensive, due to a marginalized market).
venom8599Dec 16, 2006
@backasswardsWill you please get over the Linux vs. GNU\Linux crap too. Call it whatever you want, nobody really cares, especially if you want keep bitching like RMS himself.
excessiveDec 16, 2006
I will not support them until they increase the 8 character Nick limit on registration form.
mattleeDec 16, 2006
Free Software is about freedom, not price. Lots and lots of people have jobs writing free software, myself included.
rattelerDec 17, 2006
@cougaboy"Milton's Satan is almost admirable for his unwillingness to serve in Heaven and accepting his resulting role."The Microzelots who are probably paid by M$ to troll these boards and digg down comments against mother M$ are tireless in claiming that Vista will be the only choice because of market dominance and mainstream application support.My quote shows my willingness to do without the "good" elements that come from the Windows platform rather than submit to the rules of computings "god".The "hell" of the less supported GNU/Linux is preferable to being relegated to some one who is passively ALLOWED to use my own computer as I see fit.You can bow and scrape before you're lord high OS written for the media industry and government to control you. I choose not to, even if it means having less than I did before.It is better to rule in Hell, than to serve Vista.
hertarAug 18, 2007
Yeah - good luck to them with this initiative... Why some people just like to hate something for no specific reason?
coldkill3rOct 5, 2007
/win
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