The Free Software Foundation’s Deadly Sins

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Article Source InformationWeek’s Open Source Weblog
August 28, 2009, 9:04 am

After giving Vista a pummeling, the Free Software Foundation has turned to Windows 7’s “sins” against computer users. And like their previous anti-Windows campaign, it misses the point. You can’t improve your own lot by lowering everyone else’s.

The seven points in the campaign are essentially clones of every anti-Windows talking point that have circulated for some time now. There’s nothing in them that is inherently a problem with Windows alone, though; they’re anti-Microsoft broadsides, and as such they are tiresomely predictable…

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