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Vista gets slated by the Green Party
webuser.co.uk — The Green Party of England & Wales has attacked Microsoft Vista, due for release on the 30th. Derek Wall, Male Principal Speaker, claims Vista is defective by design, putting Microsoft and the corporate media in control of your computer, and forces expensive and environmentally damaging hardware upgrades.
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- mattlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The Green Party are really starting to impress me on issues like this.
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Indeed. They don't need to suck up to (be scared of) imperialist companies.
Green Party slams Microsoft OLPC involvement
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| "Microsoft wants to restrict the greatest profits in the knowledge economy
| to already established software corporations like itself.
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| "By installing its programs on these laptops Microsoft hopes to create
| market domination and vendor lock in. That is unacceptable bribery.
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http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2170267/update-green-party-labels
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Indeed. They don't need to suck up to (be scared of) imperialist companies.
- rusconi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Good to see such "technical" writing from a political party.
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1why is everyone blaming Microsoft for making future technology require up-to-date hardware? I don't get it. At least they support upgrading instead of just throwing the whole damn thing away and getting a new one (cough cough apple cough cough)
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So wait, aren't almost all new computer hardware components ROHS compliant, at least alot of them are, we may be throwing out the bad, but we were going to do it anyway, and putting in it's place an environmental standard, you'd think the green party would be happy. Politicians never get it.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not bad UNTIL it's thrown out. So you'd really not be helping anything by throwing it out prematurely. It would be far better if it could continue to be used, such as by the poor, instead of selling them cut-down PCs with even less performance.
Hey, and let's get off the environmental stuff for a sec and discuss what else they said. In particular, THIS part:
"Vista is defective by design, putting Microsoft and the corporate media in control of your computer"
They're absolutely right.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not bad UNTIL it's thrown out. So you'd really not be helping anything by throwing it out prematurely. It would be far better if it could continue to be used, such as by the poor, instead of selling them cut-down PCs with even less performance.
- Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh good, when apple were being slated by the green's, they were "radical and stupid", but now they make complete sense.
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