[Sosfbay-discuss] Vi$ta = More Micro$oft's Bull$hit; a human rights issue; BadVista; Forced software upgrades can add up for Vista users

[Tian Harter]

JamBoi wrote:

>Check out http://badvista.fsf.org/
>
>BadVista.org: Stopping Vista adoption by promoting free software
>by John Sullivan — last modified 2007-02-08 17:41
>The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users,
>opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in
>freedom) software alternatives.
>  
>
For some reason that all reminds me of the time back in the '80s
when Apple gave me a T shirt that said "LET'S FUD SAA". I didn't
get it until a coworker explained to me that FUD was a strategy
acronym that stood for "Fear Uncertainty & Doubt", and that SAA
was some IBM based TLA for "System (IforgetThisWord) Archatecture".
Then I realized it boiled down to "dis the competition." At least the art
on the shirt was good. Nicely printed to. Apple always made nice shirts.

I dislike negative politics. Because of that, I'm going to ignore this
campaign. I'm just going to use my linux box, and anybody that
scrolls to the bottom of my website is free to see the "made with Mozilla"
logo that I made myself and put there. I could easily put a "GIMP" logo
next to it, but I'm not sure what the logo for GIMP is. At this point I've
processed many photos in GIMP and I enjoy using it quite a bit.
I've also added many pages with Mozilla, and also think it's okay.

Seems to me that putting that kind of logo on sites made with this
software is just giving credit where credit is due.

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