Thursday, October 08, 2009

Free software group asks NGOs to boycott Windows 7...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is to write to the leaders of 500 of the most influential non-governmental organisations (NGOs) worldwide to urge them to refuse Windows 7.

The letters will outline the seven areas where the FSF says Microsoft and the commercial software market is damaging: invading privacy, poisoning education, locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behaviour, enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and threatening user security.

"The dependency of organisations working for social change and improvement on software owned and exclusively controlled by Microsoft is leading society into an era of digital restrictions, threatening and limiting our freedoms,” said FSF executive director Peter Brown. More...

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