Comments on: FSF: easy targets http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/ Matt Johnston's Blog About Tech, Innovation, Startups, Opportunity ... and Sailing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: mj » Blog Archive » Gah, another Entitlementard http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-23965 mj » Blog Archive » Gah, another Entitlementard Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:55:56 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1077#comment-23965 [...] like this should join the Free Software Foundation. Idiots like this make me ashamed to be an Apple User Group [...] [...] like this should join the Free Software Foundation. Idiots like this make me ashamed to be an Apple User Group [...]

]]> By: vinea http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-23951 vinea Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:22:52 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1077#comment-23951 Evidently Matt is either spamming RMS' comments without attribution or has ghostwritten RMS' email to linux-elitists. http://allium.zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2008-July/012546.html Evidently Matt is either spamming RMS’ comments without attribution or has ghostwritten RMS’ email to linux-elitists.

http://allium.zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2008-July/012546.html

]]> By: Noble http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-23900 Noble Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:36:09 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1077#comment-23900 Hey Matt, you're full of it. You were encouraging people to book MULTIPLE Genius Bar appointments. And what exactly will this accomplish, hm? Geniuses have zero control over policy, and when Grandma can't get her laptop fixed because some neckbeard is at the Genius bar asking questions that the AVERAGE CONSUMER DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT, what do you think is going to happen? The FSF loses even more standing in the public eye. You don't like Apple's DRM? I have a perfect solution: DON'T BUY THEIR PRODUCTS! It's that simple! You talk about fighting DRM, but it's obvious that you're pretty clueless about how the real world works, because this will have zero impact. You think Jobs will cave or even care about this kind of "pressure"? You're utterly clueless. Hey Matt, you’re full of it. You were encouraging people to book MULTIPLE Genius Bar appointments. And what exactly will this accomplish, hm? Geniuses have zero control over policy, and when Grandma can’t get her laptop fixed because some neckbeard is at the Genius bar asking questions that the AVERAGE CONSUMER DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT, what do you think is going to happen? The FSF loses even more standing in the public eye. You don’t like Apple’s DRM? I have a perfect solution: DON’T BUY THEIR PRODUCTS! It’s that simple! You talk about fighting DRM, but it’s obvious that you’re pretty clueless about how the real world works, because this will have zero impact. You think Jobs will cave or even care about this kind of “pressure”? You’re utterly clueless.

]]> By: mj http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-23884 mj Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:14:00 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1077#comment-23884 Even better, John Welch <a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/07/digging_the_hole_deeper.html" rel="nofollow">weighs in</a> as Matt Lee seems to have spammed his blog too. Even better, John Welch weighs in as Matt Lee seems to have spammed his blog too.

]]> By: mj http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-23856 mj Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:55:57 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1077#comment-23856 I didn't actually use the term 'Denial of Service' but this is exactly what it is. Shame on you and whomever concocted this hairbrained scheme. The general public hasn't heard of the FSF. Now they will, and in exactly the wrong tone. Instead of thinking that you're freeing them from the shackles of an oppressor, they'll hate you for it. Utter stupidity. I didn’t actually use the term ‘Denial of Service’ but this is exactly what it is. Shame on you and whomever concocted this hairbrained scheme.

The general public hasn’t heard of the FSF. Now they will, and in exactly the wrong tone. Instead of thinking that you’re freeing them from the shackles of an oppressor, they’ll hate you for it.

Utter stupidity.

]]> By: Matt Lee http://cimota.com/blog/2008/07/27/fsf-easy-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-23855 Matt Lee Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:45:15 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1077#comment-23855 I’m Matt Lee, campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation. We have asked people to go to Apple stores and show Apple’s staff their opposition to Apple’s DRM. Describing this with terms such as “denial of service” and “disruption” is untrue. When people go one by one to a store and tell the staff what they think, that’s not an attack. When Apple implements DRM, when Apple deactivates unlocked iPhones, that’s an attack. “Voting with your feet” means individually rejecting DRM. Of course you should do that, but acting collectively is stronger than acting individually. The movie companies organize, the record companies organize, and a large company such as Apple is lots of people who are organized to achieve an aim which in this case is unjust. To overcome them, we must organize too. It would be a shame if DRM prevails because we artificially limited ourselves to individual action in response to a well-planned attack on our freedom. So if you recognize DRM as a threat to your freedom, please participate in this and other protests. If even 5 protestors visit a store in a day, the protest will be a success there, but we cannot take that much participation for granted. I’m Matt Lee, campaigns manager at the Free Software Foundation.

We have asked people to go to Apple stores and show Apple’s staff their opposition to Apple’s DRM. Describing this with terms such as “denial of service” and “disruption” is untrue.

When people go one by one to a store and tell the staff what they think, that’s not an attack. When Apple implements DRM, when Apple deactivates unlocked iPhones, that’s an attack.

“Voting with your feet” means individually rejecting DRM. Of course you should do that, but acting collectively is stronger than acting individually. The movie companies organize, the record companies organize, and a large company such as Apple is lots of people who are organized to achieve an aim which in this case is unjust.

To overcome them, we must organize too. It would be a shame if DRM prevails because we artificially limited ourselves to individual action in response to a well-planned attack on our freedom.

So if you recognize DRM as a threat to your freedom, please participate in this and other protests. If even 5 protestors visit a store in a day, the protest will be a success there, but we cannot take that much participation for granted.

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