FSF Launches "BadVista" Campaign 607
FrankNFurter writes to note the launch yesterday of the FSF's BadVista campaign against Microsoft's new operating system. BadVista's aim is to inform users about the alleged harms inflicted by Vista on the user and about free software alternatives. Quoting program administrator John Sullivan: "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."
Re:Would've been nice if... (Score:4, Funny)
- Vista is a Microsoft product
- Vista is bad
Re:Would've been nice if... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All I have to say is... (Score:0, Funny)
The only thing more pathetic than a PC user is a PC user trying to be a Mac user. We have a name for you people: switcheurs.
There's a good reason for your vexation at the release history of OS X and Apple's record of antipathy towards Trusted Computing: You don't speak its language. Remember that the Mac was designed by artists [atspace.com], for artists [atspace.com], be they poets [atspace.com], musicians [atspace.com], or avant-garde mathematicians [atspace.com]. A shiny new Mac can introduce your frathouse hovel to a modicum of good taste, but it can't make Mac users out of dweebs [atspace.com] and squares [atspace.com] like you.
So don't force what doesn't come naturally. You'll be much happier if you stick to an OS that suits your personality. And you'll be doing the rest of us a favor, too; you leave Macs to Mac users, and we'll leave beige to you.
I love Vista (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Vista is Bad. Use Linux. Use GPL software. (Score:1, Funny)
- St. Ignucious (aka RMS)
Re:FUD??!! (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, your analogy is as inappropriate as screwing a puppy in church.
Re:"Treacherous Computing" "Genuine upgrade promle (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Vista is Bad. Use Linux. Use GPL software. (Score:5, Funny)
Forget Linux, I'm waiting for GNU/HURD. Any day now...
Re:FUD??!! (Score:1, Funny)
my 14 year old daughter finished all installs and clicks all EULA agreements. I dont havethat problem as a minor cant enter into a contract so MSFT is fucked in my regard.
I give up nothing. but then I dont ever plan on buying Vista... I may try the pirated verson after all the restrictions and problems are removed by the warez guys.
twilight zone (Score:2, Funny)
I never thought I'd see so many rabid slashdotters ATTACKING the FSF and DEFENDING Microsoft.
It's the beginning of the end!!!
Re:Would've been nice if... (Score:2, Funny)
Vista and Global Warming (Score:2, Funny)
An issue that has received little to no press is Vista's environmental impact. If Microsoft succeeds in convincing users to upgrade to powerful graphics cards to handle its new Aero user interface [wikipedia.org], power consumption will dramatically increase on hundreds of millions of computers around the planet.
It is ironic that the Gates foundation has been performing such good works in Africa while at the same time, Microsoft is on the verge of releasing a disastrous contribution to global warming.
Let people flock - we are free flock to freedom (Score:3, Funny)
Just because there are not free alternatives for everything, yet, or that some people will choose to give up their freedoms for extra features does NOT mean that the FSF fighting for freedom or trying to inform people isn't a worthy cause.
So let the other people 'flock' towards systems where others are in control, if they do not put a premium on their freedom then that is their choice - the best anyone can do is try to inform people of the short comings of non-free software, and the alternatives, which is exactly what BadVista is doing.
Re:Would've been nice if... (Score:3, Funny)
They are modeling the site's schedule after Vista. Vista was suppose to be finished years ago too.
Re:Speculations and guesswork (Score:3, Funny)
9. Storage Space: With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Hardly relevant, any hard drive sold within the last few years will allow > 100GB.
Yes, everyone knows that every laptop sold in the last few years had a >100GB, wicked-fast drive in it.
Vista stands for: (Score:3, Funny)
Intruders
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
Re:Speculations and guesswork (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Would've been nice if... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Would've been nice if... (Score:3, Funny)
Alright. I guess I'll wait for the dupe, then.
Re:Speculations and guesswork (Score:3, Funny)
And here I was thinking that "Designed for Windows $version" meant "We threw in the crap winmodems that won't work with anything else".
Re:That Big? (Score:3, Funny)
So it can store The Microsoft Sound in all its symphonic glory with the bitrate it deserves.
Re:More detail (Re:"Treacherous Computing" "Genuin (Score:1, Funny)