{"id":3318,"date":"2009-08-27T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2009-08-27T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T14:00:56","slug":"fsf-microsofts-windows-7-deadly-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/08\/27\/fsf-microsofts-windows-7-deadly-sins\/","title":{"rendered":"FSF: Microsoft’s Windows 7 Deadly Sins"},"content":{"rendered":"

No! It is not FFS. It’s FSF<\/a>. It stands for Free Software Foundation.<\/p>\n

It’s “Free” as in Liberty, noat as in free beer.<\/p>\n

As much as I believe that there are a lot of Hippies out there involved in the Free Software Foundation, I still wonder why I’m making this very statement.<\/p>\n

Let’s get to the main story. As I read an RSS item from Slashdot<\/a> (lots of Hippies are frequenting this site), one really caught my short attention span<\/strong>. Well because it is on the top of the RSS feed<\/a> and the only unread items at that moment. I was previously offended by the troll-behavior of Microsoft P.R. team (Paul Thurrott, Ed Bott and\u00a0 Mary Jo Foley with the addition of Randall C. Kennedy) as described by Tom Reetsman<\/a>. By the way, Reetsman (via The Small Wave<\/a>) just posted his take on Thurrott’s rants against anything that is not Microsoft<\/a>; specifically Apple. Well, at least Thurrott has one loyal supporter<\/a> (an accomplice *cough*) defending everything Thurrot said and attacking the non-Microsoft company (namely Apple in this article).<\/p>\n

Oh where was I? I told you my attention span was short.<\/p>\n

Free Software Foundation, Inc. has created a site titled “Windows 7 Sins – The case against Microsoft and proprietary software<\/a>.”
\nhttp:\/\/windows7sins.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t worry Apple haters, they mentioned “proprietary software.” Apple does make proprietary software, therefore guilty by association. I bet that Thurrott is trying hard to make himself look neutral by attacking other companies that make “proprietary softwares.” We all know that Thurrott lives off Microsoft’s business model.<\/p>\n

I prefer to slack than copying and pasting the arguments brought up by FSF<\/a>. I get the message, but I do not blindly agree to every single point they make. I do take advantage of many things the Open Source Community have to offer in the past and present. I am pretty sure that it will be a similar situation in the future. I do also believe that propriety was born out of necessity. I don’t mind proprietary software as long as we have other alternatives. I’m pretty sure that\u00a0 Google<\/a> has some kind of proprietary software. I still use Google as my main search engine; Microsoft can Bing<\/a> themselves.<\/p>\n

OK, I opted not to slack as much by echoing FSF’s argument points:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Poisoning education<\/li>\n
  2. Invading privacy<\/li>\n
  3. Monopoly behavior<\/li>\n
  4. Lock-in<\/li>\n
  5. Abusing standards<\/li>\n
  6. Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)<\/li>\n
  7. Threatening user security<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you feel compelled to say that there are other companies also guilty of the sins, then feel free to tell FSF<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n

    To loosely quote MacBreak Weekly<\/a> panel, Apple and Steve Jobs would be worse than Microsoft if they had the monopoly.<\/p>\n

    Well, I definitely need to get some sleep, no wonder this turns into a rant.<\/p>\n

    P.S. EFF<\/a> – I just feel like saying it at this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    No! It is not FFS. It’s FSF. It stands for Free Software Foundation. It’s “Free” as in Liberty, noat as in free beer. As much as I believe that there are a lot of Hippies out there involved in the Free Software Foundation, I still wonder why I’m making this very statement. Let’s get to … <\/p>\n

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