Windows Phone 7: The Best Choice For Patent Trolls
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, October 8th, 2010 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today issued a warning to consumers over Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 Phone Series. The software release is backed by a reported 400 to 500 million dollar marketing campaign that aims to distract consumers from its history of abusive behavior, and recent actions as a patent troll: attacking free software based phones like Android.
FSF is advising citizens to help increase awareness for the threat that Microsoft posses to computer user freedom, providing details at:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/windows-phone-7-the-best-choice-for-patent-trolls
“Software patents are the most important anticompetitive, anti-software-developer tool available. And right now they are being used by Microsoft in an attempt to crush computer users’ freedom. Proprietary software like Windows 7 Phone are designed to keep users divided and powerless and must be rejected” said Peter Brown, FSF executive director.
“Windows 7 Phone Series is another cookie-cutter example of Microsoft’s bumbling maliciousness to everything it does.”, said Matt Lee, FSF campaigns manager, “Microsoft’s damaging approach to software freedom, coupled with their utter contempt for customers and developers alike, has produced yet-another-platform of systematic control. This is a platform designed only to appease its shareholders and help the folks at the MPAAs and RIAAs of the world feel better about the chaos they seek to foster surrounding digital restrictions and other technical folly imposed on computer users.”
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, October 8th, 2010 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today issued a warning to consumers over Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 Phone Series. The software release is backed by a reported 400 to 500 million dollar marketing campaign that aims to distract consumers from its history of abusive behavior, and recent actions as a patent troll: attacking free software based phones like Android.
FSF is advising citizens to help increase awareness for the threat that Microsoft posses to computer user freedom, providing details at:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/windows-phone-7-the-best-choice-for-patent-trolls
“Software patents are the most important anticompetitive, anti-software-developer tool available. And right now they are being used by Microsoft in an attempt to crush computer users’ freedom. Proprietary software like Windows 7 Phone are designed to keep users divided and powerless and must be rejected” said Peter Brown, FSF executive director.
“Windows 7 Phone Series is another cookie-cutter example of Microsoft’s bumbling maliciousness to everything it does.”, said Matt Lee, FSF campaigns manager, “Microsoft’s damaging approach to software freedom, coupled with their utter contempt for customers and developers alike, has produced yet-another-platform of systematic control. This is a platform designed only to appease its shareholders and help the folks at the MPAAs and RIAAs of the world feel better about the chaos they seek to foster surrounding digital restrictions and other technical folly imposed on computer users.”
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