FSF Encouraging Pressure Campaign On Microsoft For 2025

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67328

    FSF Encouraging Pressure Campaign On Microsoft For 2025

    Phoronix: FSF Encouraging Pressure Campaign On Microsoft For 2025

    Looking for a 2025 New Year's resolution? The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is encouraging a pressure campaign on Microsoft to continue...

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  • mrg666
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2023
    • 1070

    #2
    How are you going to put pressure on Microsoft? That is just "talking" nonsense. Just keep doing the best in open source development and see how market reacts to it. Maximize the innovation and development in open source development and minimize the useless propaganda.

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    • bple2137
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2021
      • 323

      #3
      And we see how well that worked in the past, right?

      No matter how bad the Copilot/AI/Recall and shitty changes to Windows may seem, we've seen that already in the past. Putting pressure on Microsoft from its actual customers will make them revert the changes that users don't actually want and improve Windows usability. This is already happening as we speak: https://www.techpowerup.com/329691/m...needed-anymore

      Don't get me wrong, open source tech is growing and starts to show appeal to consumers through the likes of gaming and there's a lot of opportunity, but it's not there yet, especially for content creators. A single digit improvement in market share percentage on desktop for next year would still be a big success.

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      • mxan
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2022
        • 285

        #4
        They have a valid point with regards to Windows 10 ending support and making a lot of perfectly working computers potential e-waste. But we saw the same thing happen with Windows 7 in 2020 and Windows XP in 2014.

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        • cutterjohn
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 333

          #5
          there was a 2024 pressure MS campaign?

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          • loganj
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2017
            • 608

            #6
            Originally posted by cutterjohn View Post
            there was a 2024 pressure MS campaign?
            +1
            this whole thing seems to be a new way to throw a party

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            • bug77
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2009
              • 6516

              #7
              Between AD and Azure, put pressure on Microsoft... how?
              Microsoft doesn't even seem to have made Santa's naughty list, according to ChatGPT:
              ms_santa.png

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              • GrimR3
                Junior Member
                • Apr 2024
                • 8

                #8
                If you don't want 11, just keep using Windows 10 or get Linux. I have no idea how effective TPM is at protecting stuff in Windows, but the customers they care about, businesses and governments, seem to be eating it up.
                I don't know anyone who wants Recall other than businesses, and Microsoft is driving ahead so home users don't impact their decision making.

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                • Jumbotron
                  Senior Member
                  • Jul 2015
                  • 1247

                  #9
                  As someone who worked for Geek Squad before and right up to the beginning of the pandemic I can tell you there may not be as much “e-waste” as one might fear. I saw people bring in E-Machine desktops with Windows XP….in 2019. Old Toshiba laptops with Windows NT. Gateway computers with Windows Vista. Scads and scads of Windows 7 boxes…..all these examples in 2019-2020.

                  I even saw 10 year old unsupported iMacs that would take 5 minutes to boot. I think people will hold on to their Windows 10 computers until they literally die ( the computers that is but, who knows, maybe the users ) before buying a new computer that has Windows 11 pre-installed.

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                  • sophisticles
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2015
                    • 2591

                    #10
                    I have to side with the FSF on this one.

                    All Microsoft has done for open source is be a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, have an employee that's on the Board of Directors of the LF, have an employee that's on the Board of Technical Advisors for Linux, one of their engineers discovered the XZ exploit, and their engineers have contributed lots of code to the Linux kernel.​

                    Ms should really be doing a lot more, like maybe donating $20 to the FSF which would probably double their net worth thereby converting them to capitalism instead of that whiny commie crap they embrace.

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