[Fsf-friends] Vista DRM Cracked on Launch Day
V. Sasi Kumar
sasi.fsf@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Wed Jan 31 14:03:14 IST 2007
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:13 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced that putting Winduhs down is the right way to go
> about promoting freedom and/or free software. What does the list
> think?
While we need to stress on freedom, it may sometimes become necessary to
tell users of M$ Windows about the problems with their system too. In
that sense, it may be useful to know about the strengths and weaknesses
(or features) of other non-free OSes. In that sense, it may be useful to
know such things. The link you have sent is also very useful.
> Instead of harping on Winduhs' weaknesses, maybe we should be talking
> about how it takes freedom away and entraps users. I don't know if
> this ha already been posted to this list, but the definitive analysis
> of Fistula's various DRM capabilities and their impact on the end
> user is available at:
>
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
>
> Regards,
>
> - -- Raju
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> Raj Mathur raju at kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/
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V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf at gmail.com>
Free Software Foundation of India
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