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Environmental and social justice groups unite in support of free software
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| Read and comment at the BadVista.org blogVista was engineered from the ground
| up as a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and Treacherous Computing (TC)
| platform. Microsoft hides these defects under more benign-sounding names
| like “Digital Rights Management” and “Trusted Computing”. But the fact is
| that Vista is designed to monitor what people do, and in particular to limit
| what they can do with digital media files. These limits obstruct common and
| legally protected uses like sharing news story clips and copying text from
| government documents. Vista has also been designed for easy updating from a
| central authority, so that new restrictions can always be imposed, disabling
| certain features or programs. When a user clicks OK to install Vista,
| Microsoft claims—illegitimately—that she is consenting in advance to this
| control. It is the computational burden of this constant monitoring in
| combination with the requirement that all hardware support these software
| restrictions that is driving many of Vista’s steep hardware requirements,
| leading to the environmental consequences that groups like the Green Party
| and Greenpeace have described.
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http://printsho.station193.com/php/wordpress/archives/2008/07/06/environmental-and-social-justice-groups-unite-in-support-of-free-software/
Clunky SUV O/S, just like the gaming console.
Related:
The Greenest Game Console
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| Microsoft's Xbox 360, on the other hand, is a veritable power hog, sucking
| down 194 watts, rivaling Takahashi's 42-inch plasma TV.
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http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/08/the-greenest-ga.html
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