[Fsf-friends] Vista DRM Cracked on Launch Day

[V. Sasi Kumar]

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
> - -- 
> 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