n in the world is also the greediest man in the world, despite all his pompous "philanthropy." If he were REALLY a philanthropist he would fund the free energy movement big time and free us from fossil fuels and global warming. Maybe he's just too stupid to do that and doesn't "get it."

Vista is so bad that perhaps it is the trigger that will bring open systems in big time. Now there is a new website dedicated to just that: www.BadVista.com

Bad Vista! http://badvista.fsf.org/

BadVista.org:

Stopping Vista adoption by promoting free software

by John Sullivan - last modified 2007-02-08 17:41

The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.

With your help, we will: Organize supporters into effective actions protesting Microsoft's daylight theft of our freedoms

Aggregate news stories cutting through MS Windows Vista marketing propaganda Provide a user-friendly gateway to free software adoption.

On another page the website lists some of the things that are bad about Vista. Microsoft thinks its monopoly is now so great that it control the world. Let's hope they have gone too far and that this movement toward open transparent systems will grow.

What's wrong with Microsoft Windows Vista?

by John Sullivan - last modified 2007-02-26 15:17

Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system is a giant step backward for your freedoms.

Usually software is supposed to enable you to do more with your computer. Vista, though, is designed to restrict what you can do.

Vista enforces new forms of "Digital Rights Management (DRM)". DRM is more accurately called Digital Restrictions Management, because it is a technology that Big Media and computer companies try to impose on us all, in order to have control over how our computers are used.

DRM enables Microsoft and media companies to:

Decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer

Decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment

Force you to install new programs even when you don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege)

Restrict your access to certain programs and even to your own data files

Even when you legally buy Vista, you don't own it.

Windows Vista, like previous versions of Windows, is proprietary software: leased to you under a license that severely restricts how you can use it, and without source code, so nobody but Microsoft can change it or even verify what it really does.

Other pages deal answer questions about open source systems and free software. In reality the horribleness of Vista is probably the best thing possible. It may be the straw that broke the camel's back, the camel being Microsoft.