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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2006-01-24
if the moderators will simply ban all the baseless slandering such as 'microsoft is evil', 'fsf is a cult', 'windows users are morons', 'fanatic', 'religion', 'zelot' etc, then we will get rid of the extremists/trolls and could actually have a discussion here.
though I've been on OSNews but a short time, I've found that the level of discussion has really deteriorated from when I first joined.
any voices of reason and rationale gets drowned in a neverending stream of insults and name calling.
you don't like Microsoft or FSF, GPL or Propriety software? point out why and back it up with facts and/or rationale, else it's just verbal vomit.
what happens now is that one extremist points at one extremist on the other side and says, "look, this is how they all are!", and then the insults ensue.
it's time for the moderators to actually moderate.