FSF Kicks Off Anti Digital Rights Mgmt Campaign

I attended the Free Software Foundation event in Seattle today. We dressed up in HAZMAT suits and handed out fliers outside of Bill Gates' keynote speech at WinHEC 2006 in Seattle.

It is my opinion that Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Treacherous Computing (aka Trusted Computing/TC) are the number one threats to free and open source desktop operating systems such as GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and more.

I would be remiss if I let the large industry players (Microsoft, Apple, Real, Intel, etc.) force this technology on an unsuspecting public without attempting to inform them of what they are giving up in return for a magical world of DRM convenience.

I will keep blogging about this. In the meantime check out:

http://www.defectivebydesign.org and http://www.fsf.org

More to come....

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