It is true that Microsoft has introduced the Black Screen of Death among Nepali users of Windows XP Professional, starting September 23. They had a press conference yesterday to inform the introduction of this feature. Yes, it is very disrespectful of the users of the softwares. But this is just a manifestation of the evils of proprietary softwares.
In my opinion, this is necessary for the message of Free Softwares to get across. Unless we have strict implementation of our existing laws and unless multinational software companies exert their interests among the users here, the message we are trying to spread just gets lost. Proprietary softwares have to be as evil as we claim they really are for a common-man to understand what he is missing. When he gets it for no cost and when he sees no harm in using them, our messages sound like pure propaganda to them. I see this as a welcome sign. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Hempal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A very valid question though from the text:By Justin Montgomery > > "Another question that has been raised, is why is it going after users of > pirated versions of Windows XP when the software isn't even available any > more. Wouldn't they have to go with Vista now instead? It looks to me like > it's more of an initiative to get Vista in the hands of users than anything > else." > > > Best Regards, > HS > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Hempal Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
