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[Svnweb-commits] r701 - in windows7sins/trunk: . c widget |
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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:40:18 -0400 |
Author: mattl
Date: Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009
New Revision: 701
Log:
danny clark says 'oh yeah, it's getting full'
Added:
windows7sins/trunk/widget/
windows7sins/trunk/widget/index.php
Deleted:
windows7sins/trunk/footer.inc
Modified:
windows7sins/trunk/base.inc
windows7sins/trunk/c/print.css
windows7sins/trunk/c/sins.css
windows7sins/trunk/drm-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/drm.html
windows7sins/trunk/education-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/education.html
windows7sins/trunk/index.php
windows7sins/trunk/lockin-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/lockin.html
windows7sins/trunk/monopoly-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/monopoly.html
windows7sins/trunk/nav.inc
windows7sins/trunk/privacy-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/privacy.html
windows7sins/trunk/security-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/security.html
windows7sins/trunk/standards-more.html
windows7sins/trunk/standards.html
windows7sins/trunk/top.inc
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/base.inc
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/base.inc Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/base.inc Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
<p><a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/windows-7-sins";>FSF launches campaign
against Windows 7 and proprietary software</a></p>
<ul>
- <li class="tab1"><a class="current"
href="/education/">Education</a></li>
+ <li class="tab1"><a href="/education/">Education</a></li>
<li class="tab2"><a href="/drm/">DRM</a></li>
<li class="tab3"><a href="/security/">Security</a></li>
<li class="tab4"><a href="/monopoly/">Monopoly</a></li>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/c/print.css
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/c/print.css Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/c/print.css Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
/* ##### Main Copy ##### */
-#main-copy {
+#main-body {
text-align: justify;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
text-decoration: none;
}
-#main-copy a:after { /* Prints the links' URIs after the links' texts.
Doesn't work in MSIE */
+a:after { /* Prints the links' URIs after the links' texts. Doesn't work in
MSIE */
content: "<" attr(href) ">";
font-size: 90%;
padding-left: 1ex;
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/c/sins.css
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/c/sins.css Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/c/sins.css Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@
#stripNav0 li a { padding: 10px; color: #333 !important; text-decoration: none
!important; }
+#stripNav0 li a:hover{ background-color: #ccc !important;}
+
.current{ background-color: #d9f0fd;}
#main-body{ background-color: white !important; }
@@ -253,11 +255,11 @@
#intro-subtitle:hover{ background-color: #d9f0fd; }
-.signup-form{ text-align: center; padding: 6px; background-color: #ff5
!important; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; }
+#signup-form{ text-align: center; padding: 6px; background-color: #ff5
!important; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; }
-.signup-form h3{ font-size: 24px; padding: 6px; margin: 0; }
+#signup-form h3{ font-size: 24px; padding: 6px; margin: 0; }
-.signup-form input, .signup-form label { font-size: 20px; }
+#signup-form input, .signup-form label { font-size: 20px; }
#widget-link{ text-align: center; background-color: yellow; padding: 5px }
@@ -267,4 +269,6 @@
#resources ul{ padding: 0; margin: 0; }
-#resources li { display: inline; margin-right: 2em }
\ No newline at end of file
+#resources li { display: inline; margin-right: 2em }
+
+blockquote { font-size: 15px }
\ No newline at end of file
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/drm-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/drm-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/drm-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+<p>The <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monomaniacal";
+title="Fanatical, or obsessed with one cause or idea to the exclusion
+of other concerns.">monomaniacal</a> fear of <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media";>big media companies</a>
+is that people will share digital media with their friends, building a
+free public library of cultural works. Public libraries are wonderful
+institutions, and in a digital age they become almost miraculous: we
+can now provide universal access to human knowledge and
+culture—or at least anything that's been published—at
+little or no cost. The amazing thing is that it's almost automatic:
+once people can share freely with their friends over a global network,
+you get a digital public library. P2P networks are one example of a
+digital library, and the web is another. The value of these libraries
+to the public is historic and immeasurable. But media companies serve
+shareholders, not the public, and are therefore very ready to destroy
+in its infancy any public resource that might interfere with their
+profits. The personal computer is built from the ground up to make
+sharing information fast and easy, so for media companies to restrict
+sharing they need the full cooperation of software makers at the
+deepest level. Enter Microsoft.</p>
+
+<p>In order to completely prevent sharing, media companies needed
+Microsoft to do two things:</p>
+
+<ul> <li><p>First, they had to make sure that any outgoing digital
+signal is just as locked down as the DRM'ed music or movie
+file. Otherwise you could simply play a video on your computer out to
+another device (like your digital camera) and press record. So
+Windows, when playing a file with DRM, needs to constantly check to
+make sure any connected device is cooperating with the DRM scheme.
+This anti-feature is called <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path";>Protected
+Media Path</a>. Microsoft introduced it with Vista, and it continues
+in Windows 7.</p></li> <li><p>Second, media companies needed Microsoft
+to keep other programs from observing the playback process and
+intercepting the audio and video in unencrypted form. After all, it
+is still your computer, and (as much as media companies hate this) you
+can install and run whatever applications you want. Vista and Windows
+7 close this "loophole" by monitoring all the applications currently
+running whenever a media file with DRM is playing. If Vista or
+Windows 7 detects an unapproved application running in the background,
+your song or video will simply stop playing. In practice, the
+encryption on most popular DRM schemes (including DVD and Blu ray) has
+been cracked, and DRM-free copies of almost any piece of film or music
+are available on the internet. But users of Windows 7 and Vista still
+have code running on their computer—at all times—that is
+trying to limit their basic right to share media with each other and
+their power to build libraries.</p></li> </ul>
+
+<p>These restrictions have gone beyond what many would expect. For
+example, at the request of NBC, Microsoft <a
href="http://gizmodo.com/391642/microsoft-will-totally-bork-your-media-center-dvr-if-nbc-or-anyone-asks-it-to";>prevented
Windows Media
+Center users from recording television
+shows</a>
+that NBC would rather you didn't, even though this kind of recording
+is an included feature of Windows Media Center. They claimed that they
+were just following FCC regulations, though the Second Circuit Court
+of Appeals ruled that the FCC has no authority to make such
+regulations.</p>
+
+<p>Microsoft even adds DRM in contexts where media companies have largely
+given up on it. This year, after every major online music store went
+DRM-free, Microsoft <a
href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/245859/q-a-microsoft-defends-return-to-drm";>launched
a DRM-encumbered music store for mobile
+phones</a>
+— this music service has one particularly charming limitation:
+many people switch cellphones every 6 months to a year, but there is
+no way to transfer songs from one phone to the next. If you switch
+phones every 6 months, then you lose your music every six months. But
+more importantly, this is a level of DRM that music companies are no
+longer demanding, indicating that Microsoft has its own aim in
+promoting DRM: lock-in. Because DRM creates artificial
+incompatibility, it is the perfect tool for tying users of a service
+to a particular product. When people buy music from a Microsoft
+service, they cannot use any other music players (like the iPod, for
+example). Even when Microsoft launched its own "Zune" music player,
+<a
href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/09/microsofts-zune-wont-play-protected-windows-media";>the
Zune did not play tracks with Microsoft "Plays for Sure"
+DRM</a>
+sold by other music services (including the MTV URGE Music Service
+<em>built in</em> to Windows Media Player 11). Pressure from big media
+companies is not the only reason Microsoft pushes DRM; lock-in is
+central to Microsoft's business strategy and DRM is a great way to
+pursue it.</p>
+
+<p>Microsoft is not the only company guilty of this. Apple, via <a
href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/itunes-drm-free";>its
+iTunes software</a>,
+and its Macintosh, iPod, <a href="http://www.fsf.org/iphone";>iPhone</a> and
Apple
+TV devices also imposes DRM on users. Adobe and Sony also impose DRM
+on users. But Microsoft is a particularly aggressive user of DRM, and
+the integration of DRM at the deepest levels of Windows 7 is a key
+reason not to buy it.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Free software, by its very nature, does not support DRM — if
DRM
+ were added to free software, the users and developers would work
+ around it and remove it.</strong></p>
+
+<p>Further reading: <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html";>Opposing
+Digital Rights Management</a></p>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/drm.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/drm.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/drm.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
-<h2>the drms</h2>
+<h2>Microsoft loves DRM.</h2>
+
+<p>Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) are technology measures that
+restrict what people can do with their computers. <a
+href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257&from=rss";>DRM
+is built into the heart of Windows 7</a>, and <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure";>many</a> <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayReady";>Microsoft</a> <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Zune";>services</a> push
+DRM on users. In some cases, Microsoft has added these restrictions
+at the behest of <a
+href="http://gizmodo.com/391642/microsoft-will-totally-bork-your-media-center-dvr-if-nbc-or-anyone-asks-it-to";>TV
+companies</a>, Hollywood and the music industry. In other cases,
+Microsoft DRM <a
+href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9005047/Vista_and_More_Piecing_Together_Microsoft_s_DRM_Puzzle";>goes
+way beyond these companies' demands</a>, suggesting that Microsoft is
+using DRM simply to create lock-in. Whether Microsoft is merely a
+co-conspirator with big media companies or an advocate for DRM in
+their own right, the result for software users is the same...</p>
+
+
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ornare faucibus
est nec placerat. Nunc quis ante lacus, eget aliquam risus. Quisque id quam
felis, vitae scelerisque tellus. Vivamus magna odio, facilisis vel pharetra
mollis, sollicitudin ut leo. Fusce rhoncus elementum rhoncus. Nunc consectetur
cursus vestibulum. Integer leo eros, ultrices eget convallis quis, tincidunt
non leo. Nulla aliquet elementum consequat. Fusce cursus fermentum dui, quis
viverra odio sagittis at. Quisque id elementum dui. Sed rutrum interdum urna, a
accumsan massa rhoncus at.
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/education-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/education-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009
(r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/education-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009
(r701)
@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
-<p>The education of children represents a major revenue stream for Microsoft,
and a strategic opportunity to embed their products into the lives of future
adults. By enticing schools to teach their students using Windows and
associated software, Microsoft can also make parents feel obliged to provide
the same software at home. Where else do we see one corporation able to put
their marketing and corporate branded materials in front of children as
requirements in this way?</p>
+<p>The education of children represents a major revenue stream for
+Microsoft, and a strategic opportunity to embed their products into
+the lives of future adults. By enticing schools to teach their
+students using Windows and associated software, Microsoft can also
+make parents feel obliged to provide the same software at home. Where
+else do we see one corporation able to put their marketing and
+corporate branded materials in front of children as requirements in
+this way?</p>
<p>Many US states even boast about how they are cooperating with
Microsoft, either ignoring or not understanding the corrupting
influence that accepting freebies from this huge corporation has on
their government. Because Microsoft's software is proprietary, it is
-<strong>incompatible</strong> with education -- users are simply passive
consumers in
-their interactions with Windows, they are legally forbidden from
-adapting the software to solve a particular problem, or from
-satisfying an intellectual curiosity by examining its source code. An
-education using the power of computers should be a means to freedom
-and empowerment, not an avenue for one corporation to instill its
-monopoly through indoctrination. </p>
+<strong>incompatible</strong> with education — users are simply
+passive consumers in their interactions with Windows, they are legally
+forbidden from adapting the software to solve a particular problem, or
+from satisfying an intellectual curiosity by examining its source
+code. An education using the power of computers should be a means to
+freedom and empowerment, not an avenue for one corporation to instill
+its monopoly through indoctrination. </p>
<p>Free software, on the other hand, gives children a route to
empowerment, by encouraging them to explore and learn. Nowhere was the
@@ -21,17 +28,40 @@
combination of information technology and freedom. The project aimed
to produce low-cost devices (starting with one called the XO) so that
millions of children could have access to them, and free software, so
-they would <a href="http://laptop.org/en/vision/";>have the critical freedoms
to explore and share their
-software</a>. </p>
+they would <a href="http://laptop.org/en/vision/";>have the critical
+freedoms to explore and share their software</a>. </p>
-<p>Then <a
href="http://www.olpcnews.com/files/microsoft_emails_on_olpc.pdf";>under
pressure from Microsoft</a>, Negroponte backed the project away from
+<p>Then <a
+href="http://www.olpcnews.com/files/microsoft_emails_on_olpc.pdf";>under
+pressure from Microsoft</a>, Negroponte backed the project away from
its commitment to freedom and announced that the machine would also be
a platform for running the nonfree Windows XP operating system. </p>
-<p>Microsoft is not the only threat to education on Windows XP -- Adobe and
Apple are both firmly placed in education, even on Windows. Adobe's proprietary
Flash and Shockwave players and Apple's QuickTime and iTunes are widely used by
educational software.</p>
+<p>Microsoft is not the only threat to education — Adobe and
+Apple are both firmly placed in education, even on Windows. Adobe's
+proprietary Flash and Shockwave players and Apple's QuickTime and
+iTunes are widely used by educational software.</p>
+
+<p>Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in
+an attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It
+remains to be seen to what degree Microsoft will succeed. But with all
+of this pressure, Microsoft has harmed a project that has distributed
+more than 1 million laptops running free software, and has taken aim
+at the low-cost platform as a way to make poor children around the
+world dependent on its products. The OLPC threatens to become another
+example of the way Microsoft convinces governments around the world
+that an education involving computers must be synonymous with an
+education using Windows. In order to prevent this, it is vital that we
+work to raise global awareness of the harm Microsoft's involvement
+does to our children's education. A great way to do this is by
+downloading <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads";>Sugar</a>
+and helping a child in your local area experience free software.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How does free software stand up to this? Freedom 1: The
+freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do
+what you wish.</strong></p>
+
+<p>Further reading: <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html";>Why schools should
+exclusively use free software</a></p>
-<p>Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an
attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It remains to be
seen to what degree Microsoft will succeed. But with all of this pressure,
Microsoft has harmed a project that has distributed more than 1 million laptops
running free software, and has taken aim at the low-cost platform as a way to
make poor children around the world dependent on its products. The OLPC
threatens to become another example of the way Microsoft convinces governments
around the world that an education involving computers must be synonymous with
an education using Windows. In order to prevent this, it is vital that we work
to raise global awareness of the harm Microsoft's involvement does to our
children's education. A great way to do this is by downloading <a
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads";>Sugar</a> and helping a child in
your local area experience free software.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How does free software stand up to this? Freedom 1: The freedom to
study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you
wish.</strong></p>
-
-<p>Further reading: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html";>Why
schools should exclusively use free software</a></p>
\ No newline at end of file
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/education.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/education.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/education.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@
<p>Increasingly, computers are expected to be useful tools in our
children's education. But today, most children whose education
involves computers are being taught to use one company's product:
-Microsoft's -- Microsoft spends large sums of money on lobbyists and marketing
to
-procure the support of educational departments. </p>
-
+Microsoft's — Microsoft spends large sums of money on lobbyists
+and marketing to procure the support of educational departments. </p>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/index.php
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/index.php Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/index.php Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
<?php include('drm.html'); ?>
- <h3><a href="#drm-more" rel="facebox">How DRM restricts
your freedom</a></h3>
+ <h3><a href="#drm-more" rel="facebox">Using Windows 7,
you give control of your computer to the media.</a></h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
<?php include('lockin.html'); ?>
- <h3><a href="#lockin-more" rel="facebox">Microsoft and
proprietary software breeds a dependency on their secret software</a></h3>
+ <h3><a href="#lockin-more" rel="facebox">Microsoft breeds
a dependency on their secret software</a></h3>
</div>
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
</div><!-- .slider-wrap -->
</div>
- <div class="yui-g netscape4 signup-form">
+ <div class="yui-g netscape4" id="signup-form">
<form class="netscape4"
action="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/subscribe/windows7sins"; method="post">
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/lockin-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/lockin-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/lockin-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+<p>Microsoft <a
+href="http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+forced+upgrade";>regularly
+attempts to force upgrades</a> on its customers, by removing support
+for older versions of Windows and Office, whilst changing the file
+formats used by its desktop applications, leaving many businesses in a
+position where they are forced to upgrade to continue to use the
+software and document formats they've invested time in.</p>
+
+<p>By <a
+href="http://support.microsoft.com/?LN=en-us&scid=gp%3B[ln]%3Blifecycle&x=14&y=8#Service%20Pack%20Support";>removing
+support</a> from operating systems and other software, such as
+Microsoft Office, Microsoft leaves companies with no choice but to
+upgrade to later versions of its software. The later versions of the
+software have file formats which differ from the previous versions,
+forcing companies who exchange these documents to also
+upgrade. Additionally, some applications refuse to run on older
+versions of Microsoft Windows, forcing complete system upgrades for
+what is essentially a document exchange format.</p>
+
+<p>This behavior is not limited to Microsoft, but also to proprietary
+software companies producing products for Windows. Adobe <a
+href="http://www.h-online.com/security/Guessing-games-regarding-Adobe-Reader-update--/news/110080";>regularly
+updates its software</a> to patch flaws used to bypass restrictive
+measures in its PDF readers, and Apple used its <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_%28web_browser%29#Distribution_through_Apple_Software_Update";>Software
+Update application</a> on Windows to <a
+href="http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/03/21/apple-software-update/";>coerce
+users of iTunes to install the Safari web-browser</a>.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How free software defeats this problem: Everybody who uses
+the software has access to the source code, this creates three
+distinct options for providing support for the software beyond any
+support that may be offered by the developers of the software:
+Firstly, a subset of users of the software may decide to continue
+supporting the product with updates and bug fixes themselves -- a
+group called Fedora Legacy did this for Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 9, for
+several years after official updates ceased. Secondly, a new project
+may decide to continue the development of the software by itself,
+offering users an alternative upgrade option in the form of a new
+release or distribution of the software. Finally, the user can hire an
+independent software developer, or team of developers to continue to
+improve and maintain the software.</strong></p>
+
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/lockin.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/lockin.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/lockin.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
-<h2>the drms</h2>
+<h2>Microsoft's lock-in strategy</h2>
+
+<p><a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish";>"Embrace,
+extend and extinguish"</a> -- that's how Microsoft described its
+strategy for locking its users into proprietary extensions to
+standards. </p>
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ornare faucibus
est nec placerat. Nunc quis ante lacus, eget aliquam risus. Quisque id quam
felis, vitae scelerisque tellus. Vivamus magna odio, facilisis vel pharetra
mollis, sollicitudin ut leo. Fusce rhoncus elementum rhoncus. Nunc consectetur
cursus vestibulum. Integer leo eros, ultrices eget convallis quis, tincidunt
non leo. Nulla aliquet elementum consequat. Fusce cursus fermentum dui, quis
viverra odio sagittis at. Quisque id elementum dui. Sed rutrum interdum urna, a
accumsan massa rhoncus at.
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/monopoly-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/monopoly-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009
(r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/monopoly-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009
(r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+<p>Early versions of Windows 3.1, relying on an underlying version of
+the DOS operating system <a
+href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_incompatibility/";>would
+throw an error</a> if non-Microsoft DOS, such as Digital Research's
+DR-DOS, were detected. At one point, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, in an
+internal memo said "You never sent me a response on the question of
+what things an app would do that would make it run with MS-DOS and not
+run with DR-DOS. Is there [sic] feature they have that might get in
+our way?" with Microsoft Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg later
+sent another memo, stating: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel
+uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is
+DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS."</p>
+
+<p>Microsoft recently tried to sell a bunch of patents which would
+threaten GNU/Linux to patent-trolls, but the patents were <a
+href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/171589/open_source_group_buys_microsoft_patents_to_ward_off_patent_trolls.html";>eventually
+purchased by the Open Innovation Network</a>, a group with patents to
+protect free software.</p>
+
+<p>In recent months, we've seen Amazon.co.uk is starting to make <a
+href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/23/1855211";>Windows
+refunds quick and easy</a> for GNU/Linux users buying netbook
+computers. Whether this will become a growing trend, who knows?</p>
+
+<p>Worse, most PC manufacturers still do not offer you the opportunity
+to buy a machine without Windows. </p>
+
+<p>Traditionally, building your own machine was a way to get around the
+Windows tax. Microsoft has managed to hurt this, too. Sites such as
+NewEgg have many of their best deals tied to a purchase of an OEM copy
+of Windows, penalizing those who actively seek to avoid Microsoft and
+other proprietary software companies in the name of freedom.</p>
+
+<p>The monopoly of Windows isn't just limited to the direct influence
+of Microsoft's products: many computer manufacturers only ship
+machines with Windows, because of bundling deals with other software
+companies, loading up the machine with a variety of proprietary
+software, including trial offers for Internet providers and other
+junkware.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Free software doesn't have this problem: There cannot be a
+monopoly on free software, because everybody has the source code and
+everybody can change the software and distribute modified
+versions. While some major PC manufacturers are flirting with the idea
+of selling machines running GNU/Linux, all major PC manufacturers are
+still heavily advocating the use of proprietary software, by virtue of
+their relationship with Microsoft.</strong></p>
+
+<p>Further reading: <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust.html";>The
+Microsoft Antitrust Trial and Free Software</a></p>
+
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/monopoly.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/monopoly.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/monopoly.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
-<h2>the drms</h2>
+<h2>Microsoft's monopoly</h2>
+
+<p>Microsoft has been found guilty of monopolistic behavior all over
+the world. With Windows Vista, Microsoft worked with PC manufacturers
+to significantly increase the hardware specifications for the standard
+user-experience, causing people to require new computers to run the
+updated OS.</p>
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ornare faucibus
est nec placerat. Nunc quis ante lacus, eget aliquam risus. Quisque id quam
felis, vitae scelerisque tellus. Vivamus magna odio, facilisis vel pharetra
mollis, sollicitudin ut leo. Fusce rhoncus elementum rhoncus. Nunc consectetur
cursus vestibulum. Integer leo eros, ultrices eget convallis quis, tincidunt
non leo. Nulla aliquet elementum consequat. Fusce cursus fermentum dui, quis
viverra odio sagittis at. Quisque id elementum dui. Sed rutrum interdum urna, a
accumsan massa rhoncus at.
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/nav.inc
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/nav.inc Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/nav.inc Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<div class="slider-wrap yui-g">
<div id="stripNav0" class="stripNav" style="width: 649px;">
<ul>
- <li class="tab1"><a class="current"
href="/education/">Education</a></li>
+ <li class="tab1"><a href="/education/">Education</a></li>
<li class="tab2"><a href="/drm/">DRM</a></li>
<li class="tab3"><a href="/security/">Security</a></li>
<li class="tab4"><a href="/monopoly/">Monopoly</a></li>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/privacy-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/privacy-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009
(r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/privacy-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009
(r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<p>Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is Microsoft's system for remotely checking
your computer. WGA scans various parts of your hard drive to reassure
Microsoft that you are running an "approved" version of Windows. WGA is
mandatory monitoring system and if Microsoft decides you are not "approved"
they can disable your computer's functionality. Currently Microsoft confirms
that WGA checks:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Computer make and model</li>
+<li>BIOS</li>
+<li>MAC address</li>
+<li>A unique number assigned to your computer - Globally Unique Identifier or
GUID</li>
+<li>Hard drive serial number</li>
+<li>Region and language settings of the operating system</li>
+
+<li>Operating system version</li>
+<li>PC BIOS information (make, version, date)</li>
+<li>PC manufacturer</li>
+<li>User locale setting</li>
+<li>Validation and installation results.</li>
+<li>Windows or Office product key</li>
+<li>Windows XP product ID</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>WGA has caused a number privacy related problems, including deletion of
software. WGA gets automatically updated as part of Microsoft's critical
update procedures, giving users little choice but to accept changes to the
systems Microsoft can monitor. Many have claimed that WGA is spyware, and
although Microsoft have denied such intent, they retain the power to decide
what counts as an invasion of your privacy.</p>
+
+<p>For Windows 7 they are changing the name of the product to Windows 7
Activation Technologies (WAT), but the functionality remains the same.</p>
+
+<p>Microsoft's version of a "Trusted Computing" scheme is called "Palladium".
Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but Palladium
would make it universal.</p>
+
+<p>Hollywood and the record companies will use Palladium to ensure that
+downloaded videos and music can be played only on one specified
+computer and the sharing of 'authorized' files will be entirely
+impossible.</p>
+
+<p>Making sharing impossible is bad enough, but it gets worse. There are
+plans to use the same facility for email and documents--resulting in
+email that disappears in two weeks, or documents that can only be read
+on the computers in one company.</p>
+
+<p>Imagine if you get an email from your boss telling you to do something
+that you think is risky; a month later, when it backfires, you can't
+use the email to show that the decision was not yours. "Getting it in
+writing" doesn't protect you when the order is written in disappearing
+ink.</p>
+
+<p>Treacherous computing puts the existence of free operating systems and
+free applications at risk, because you may not be able to run them at
+all. </p>
+
+<p>Some versions of treacherous computing would require the operating
+system to be specifically authorized by a particular company. Free
+operating systems could not be installed. Some versions of treacherous
+computing would require every program to be specifically authorized by
+the operating system developer.</p>
+
+<p>You could not run free applications on such a system. If you did
+figure out how, and told someone, that could be a crime.</p>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/privacy.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/privacy.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/privacy.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
-<h2>the drms</h2>
+<h2>Privacy and Microsoft</h2>
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ornare faucibus
est nec placerat. Nunc quis ante lacus, eget aliquam risus. Quisque id quam
felis, vitae scelerisque tellus. Vivamus magna odio, facilisis vel pharetra
mollis, sollicitudin ut leo. Fusce rhoncus elementum rhoncus. Nunc consectetur
cursus vestibulum. Integer leo eros, ultrices eget convallis quis, tincidunt
non leo. Nulla aliquet elementum consequat. Fusce cursus fermentum dui, quis
viverra odio sagittis at. Quisque id elementum dui. Sed rutrum interdum urna, a
accumsan massa rhoncus at.
+<p>Who should your computer take its orders from?</p>
+
+<p>Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey
+someone else. Yet, with a plan they call "trusted computing" and
+software they call Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft and others are
+planning to make your next computer obey them instead of you, and this
+has serious consequences for your privacy.</p>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/security-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/security-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009
(r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/security-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009
(r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+<p>But how do you know your computer is secure? If you're using
+proprietary software, you don't! With free software, even if you don't
+have the skills to evaluate the software, you can be certain that
+someone else can.</p>
+
+<p>Windows has a long history of security vulnerabilities, enabling the
+spread of viruses and allowing remote users to take over people's
+computers for use in spam-sending botnets. Because the software is
+secret, all users are dependent on Microsoft to fix these problems --
+but Microsoft has its own security interests at heart, not those of
+its users.</p>
+
+<p>In 2005, <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability";>a
vulnerability</a> was discovered that affects all versions of
+Windows from Windows 3.0, released in 1990 until Windows Server 2003
+R2 from December 2005, with XP and later versions most severely
+affected. The problem, which affects the Windows Metafile image
+format, a format commonly used for clip-art and other vector
+images. Files containing specially crafted 'Escape codes' allow for
+arbitrary user-defined function code to be run when displaying the
+image fails. </p>
+
+<p>Security researcher, Steve Gibson, <a
href="http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-022.htm";>believes the flaw may be
intentional</a>, too.</p>
+
+<p>The situations where such files are viewed is wide:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Viewing a website in Internet Explorer.</li>
+<li>Previewing an image on your desktop or using Windows Explorer.</li>
+<li>Previewing an infected email in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Microsoft even introduced a new class of malware, the macro virus --
+allowing seemingly innocuous spreadsheets and word processing
+documents to contain malicious programming code in Microsoft Office.</p>
+
+<p>Part of the issue of Windows security comes from the fact that that by
+default, administrator accounts are used and expected by many
+applications -- these adminstrator accounts also allow malware to
+attack the operating system.</p>
+
+<p><strong>In free software this would be treated as both a technical
+issue and a social problem -- if software needs to do things as an
+administrator, it needs a good reason to do so, and if it prevents
+users from doing the job without risking their privacy and security,
+it is anti-social.</strong></p>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/security.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/security.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/security.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
-<h2>the drms</h2>
+<h2>Security</h2>
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ornare faucibus
est nec placerat. Nunc quis ante lacus, eget aliquam risus. Quisque id quam
felis, vitae scelerisque tellus. Vivamus magna odio, facilisis vel pharetra
mollis, sollicitudin ut leo. Fusce rhoncus elementum rhoncus. Nunc consectetur
cursus vestibulum. Integer leo eros, ultrices eget convallis quis, tincidunt
non leo. Nulla aliquet elementum consequat. Fusce cursus fermentum dui, quis
viverra odio sagittis at. Quisque id elementum dui. Sed rutrum interdum urna, a
accumsan massa rhoncus at.
+<blockquote>
+ <p>"The security of your computer and network depends on two things: what
+ you do to secure your computer and network, and what everyone else
+ does to secure their computers and networks. It's not enough for you
+ to maintain a secure network. If other people don't maintain their
+ security, we're all more vulnerable to attack. When many unsecure
+ computers are connected to the Internet, worms spread faster and more
+ extensively, distributed denial-of-service attacks are easier to
+ launch, and spammers have more platforms from which to send
+ e-mail. The more unsecure the average computer on the Internet is,
+ the more unsecure your computer is."</p>
+
+ <p style="text-align:right;">-- Bruce Schneier</p>
+
+</blockquote>
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/standards-more.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/standards-more.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009
(r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/standards-more.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009
(r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<p><a
+href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/story/print?guid=C0D943C4-4ADC-471C-8F87-9181A4EC3E7B";>Microsoft
+is attempting</a> to block an established, free and open format by
+heavily pushing one they have much more control over, and they're
+using all their lobbying power to try and fast track it through the
+standards process, destroying the reputations of the very standards
+bodies they seek approval from. Microsoft challenges the existing
+OpenDocument standards for Office documents with its own Office
+OpenXML format, which specifically implements Microsoft Office, rather
+than a more general standard.</p>
+
+<p>Unlike OpenDocument, which is <a
+href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2138/pdf";>well-supported
+and cross-platform</a>, Microsoft's format is only supported by <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#ProprietarySoftware";
+title="Proprietary software is software that is not free or
+semi-free. Its use, redistribution or modification is prohibited, or
+requires you to ask for permission, or is restricted so much that you
+effectively can't do it freely.">proprietary software</a> from one
+vendor, and because it has been designed to implement every bug,
+glitch and historical feature from Microsoft's Office software, the
+specification to implement OOXML is over 6000 pages long, making it
+much harder for other software to implement the format.</p>
+
+<p>Office documents are not the only area where Microsoft has railed
+against standards. Microsoft has abused its monopoly position on the
+internet, by making its Internet Explorer browser support only a
+subset of the published web standards, whilst submitting users to an
+inferior experience when an alternative browser was used. In Europe,
+Microsoft has been forced to offer a 'ballot screen' of alternative
+web browsers to the user upon installation of Windows 7 to force
+Microsoft's browser monopoly to end.</p>
+
+<p><strong>With free formats, it's important to ensure you are using
+free software as well. Free formats cannot excuse the damage done by
+proprietary software.</strong></p>
+
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/standards.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/standards.html Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/standards.html Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
-<h2>the drms</h2>
+<h2>Microsoft opposes standards...</h2>
+
+<p>Standards are important. With standards, users of various computing
+platforms can share information. It also removes users from the
+barrier of vendor lock-in. This is most prevalent in the area of
+Office documents, where entire governments, at both a state and
+national level, have made decisions based on the future proofing of
+their information.</p>
+
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ornare faucibus
est nec placerat. Nunc quis ante lacus, eget aliquam risus. Quisque id quam
felis, vitae scelerisque tellus. Vivamus magna odio, facilisis vel pharetra
mollis, sollicitudin ut leo. Fusce rhoncus elementum rhoncus. Nunc consectetur
cursus vestibulum. Integer leo eros, ultrices eget convallis quis, tincidunt
non leo. Nulla aliquet elementum consequat. Fusce cursus fermentum dui, quis
viverra odio sagittis at. Quisque id elementum dui. Sed rutrum interdum urna, a
accumsan massa rhoncus at.
Modified: windows7sins/trunk/top.inc
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/trunk/top.inc Fri Sep 25 16:22:27 2009 (r700)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/top.inc Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
<div id="outer">
<div class="yui-g">
- <p id="intro-subtitle"><a href="/#sub-content">With Windows 7,
Microsoft is asserting legal control over <b>your</b> computer and is using
this power to abuse computer users.</a></p>
+ <p id="intro-subtitle"><a href="/#signup-form">With Windows 7,
Microsoft is asserting legal control over <b>your</b> computer and is using
this power to abuse computer users.</a></p>
<noscript>
Added: windows7sins/trunk/widget/index.php
==============================================================================
--- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added)
+++ windows7sins/trunk/widget/index.php Fri Sep 25 17:40:13 2009 (r701)
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+require('../top.inc');
+
+require('../nav.inc');
+
+?>
+ <h2>add the windows 7 sins widget to your website!</h2>
+
+ <p><a href="/i/widget.png"><img src="/i/widget.png"
alt="Widget"></a></p>
+
+ <p>add this code to your website or blog</p>
+
+ <div style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Courier, monospace;
text-align: left; padding: 9px; overflow: auto; margin: 10px">
+
+
+ <p><a href="http://windows7sins.org/"><img
src="http://windows7sins.org/i/widget.png"; alt="Windows 7 Sins"
/></a></p>
+
+ </div>
+
+<?php
+
+require('../base.inc');
+
+?>
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