20 December 2006
BadVista.org Warns Users of Dangers of Vista
BadVista.org has been launched by the Free Software Federation (FSF) to warn users of the harm of Windows Vista.
The site states that Vista is a "regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does." Windows, it considers is restrictive but calls Vista a Trojan Horse that takes even more control from users. Their focus is to educate users on how Vista works, why it is bad for users and how to prevent it from happening. Also a part of this is a campaign against the Digital Rights Management that keeps slipping into more and more places including Vista.
As an example of some of the dangers of Vista, Trusted Computing is given which is nicknamed Treacherous Computing because of it's control over the way a computer operates and prevention of users allowing their computer to operate in ways that the manufacturer doesn't approve of.
While the FSF is definitely biased toward the Open Source community having viewed the site, they do a very good job of presenting this in a very professional manner and are not attacking Vista to promote Open Source, but are showing the flaws and giving Open Source as an option. They have created the site because Vista goes against their beliefs of what a computer should be and want to educate people on the issue. I would recommend people take a look at it for that reason and make their own judgments based on the facts provided on the site.
The site states that Vista is a "regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does." Windows, it considers is restrictive but calls Vista a Trojan Horse that takes even more control from users. Their focus is to educate users on how Vista works, why it is bad for users and how to prevent it from happening. Also a part of this is a campaign against the Digital Rights Management that keeps slipping into more and more places including Vista.
As an example of some of the dangers of Vista, Trusted Computing is given which is nicknamed Treacherous Computing because of it's control over the way a computer operates and prevention of users allowing their computer to operate in ways that the manufacturer doesn't approve of.
While the FSF is definitely biased toward the Open Source community having viewed the site, they do a very good job of presenting this in a very professional manner and are not attacking Vista to promote Open Source, but are showing the flaws and giving Open Source as an option. They have created the site because Vista goes against their beliefs of what a computer should be and want to educate people on the issue. I would recommend people take a look at it for that reason and make their own judgments based on the facts provided on the site.
