Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Dec 2006 21:12 UTC
"The FSF today launched 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. "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", said FSF program administrator John Sullivan."
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2006-01-04
Why doesn't the FOSS world use OpenXML.
Because of the restriction on sublicensing that means it's not compatible with FOSS.
I think there are about 500 times more people using Office than OpenOffice.
I suspect that the number may be even larger than that.
Why not join with the rest of the world and use the best office suite.
Which group do you want to abandon their platform of choice? Are their reasons [on either side] invalid for the choice they made? If so, please be explicit as to why they are wrong.
Or at least the document format being used by the best office suite.
Now is this the office suite being used by largest number of folks or the suite just released with OOXML in it? Perhaps if you had made this a little more clear and used correct examples...
Never mind! What was I thinking?