Sekadar bacaan "ringan" di akhir pekan. :-)

Sedikit cuplikan pernyataan FSF:
... a patent troll: attacking free software based phones like Android.

Sedikit terjemahan bebas pernyataan FSF:
Paten software merupakan upaya MS untuk menghancurkan
kebebasan pengguna komputer.

Troll biasa digunakan utk menyebut pihak yang tidak etis, dsb.

Rus

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:  peterb
Date: Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Subject: [FSF] Windows Phone 7: The Best Choice For Patent Trolls
To: [email protected]


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."
...

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