This is what the Free Software Foundation plans to do so on Wednesday and launched a demonstration in Boston, where he will pay companies to get rid of Microsoft Windows that supports alternative free of charge.Regardless of public opinion, the key is to send a letter to the CEO of Fortune 500 companies, warning that Windows is a threat to their business' privacy and security and freedom.
Despite the demonstrations and speeches near the center of Microsoft's release of Windows 7, the Free Software Foundation Executive Director Peter Brown, the protests should be done with Microsoft's approach in general and non-specific and Windows 7.
"Every time Microsoft tries to push them to the new version, and this is the time to make the case that," Brown said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
With Windows 7 get a positive review to some extent, Brown said he did not know they may be more difficult to win public support on this issue with the often criticized Vista.
"There's this kind of attitude," Well, this is better than Vista, "said Brown," so we would like to work against the grain. "
But, he said, the stakes are high - and more than one operating system that gains the stock market. Brown points to Amazon.com 's recent removal of Kindle e-book example of this type of action that could become commonplace if the world becomes more full digital rights management technologies.
"This type of software that gives power to these companies," he said. "When we give this power, sooner or later, someone comes knocking, is it the government or the company itself. Free software is a kind of answer to this."
While the message focused on Microsoft, said that the group Concerned also with other products, including the new Snow Leopard operating system from Apple, which took place on sale on Friday.
"It's not just Microsoft," said Brown. "This is a common problem for people that we have to accept the special programs when there are alternatives."
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