Dear FOSSians, Since last few days, I had been observing an message and some taglines that after Sept 23, 2008, Illegal copies of M$ Windows will be identified and shown a Black (instead of Blue) Screen of Death. This is a clear indication of monopolist Imperial IPR regimes spreading its claws to these poor people and poor economies, denying them thier right to knowledge, education and livelihood just for thier filthy profits.
Have you observed such cases in your sorrouding? Starting this morning, some cases of Black Screen of Death has already been reported to me. So the message seems to be TRUE. The basic problem starts with blinking of computer monitor, It turns to Complete Black and they are not allowed to perform anything. They reported that, the computer worked when they re-started it, but not sure what will happen next time OR till when they will be allowed to work on thier own computer. Not sure, when the timebomb goes on how their work will be hampered. Hence, we at FOSS Nepal Community should take note of these barriers to our right to knowledge and livelihood and act accordingly. The motto is to have a detailed knowledge about this and educate / motivate people from avoiding such senario. Best and ultimate, being to suggest / help them to migrate to FOSS. Here are some of the links, which talks about these development in more detail. http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/09/the-black-scree.html http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/genuinewindowsxp/thread/f24b14b5-b13a-4724-bb4f-63a8adecfe13/ http://keznews.com/2385_Microsoft__The_Advantages_of_using_illegal_software http://askville.amazon.com/Microsoft-update-fix-Windows-XP-SP3-problems/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=11853992 http://vista.blorge.com/2008/08/26/black-screen-coming-for-pirated-windows-users-compliments-of-wga/ http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/2138201 Hope and wish to FOSSify all, Best Regards, Hempal Shrestha --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
