[GJM] Fw: Fwd: Microsoft's control - [Fwd: Fw: Who has the key to your Vista PC?]

Thu Feb 1 14:52:04 MST 2007

 Hi Roy, 

 Thanks for your contribution.  Did you find your computer or now have a new
one?

  I think this is really timely in light of my last post re: Bill Gates
wanting "no child left behind".  It's obvious that Gates wants to ensure as
many computer users as possible and that the majority continue to purchase
software by Mircrosoft.  And that Gates be able to continue to make "token
grants" under the cover of "ensuring  a good education" for each child when
the truth of the matter is that computer useage, along with TV viewing, can
be deadly to  learning abilities.  

     Sort of like the Saudis telling us nuclear is good for us. because it
makes money for them.   

eco.

Roy Madron is a TV producer from Enlgand, now relocated to Brazil.  He is
also the co-author of the "must read" book:  GAIAN DEMOCRACIES - Redefining
Globalization and People Power.  An inside look at how the power brokers
work to  keep we-the-people enmeshed in the Global Monetocracy System,
making money for them and bankrupting ourselves. "Nice work if you can get
it". 

NEW Brazilian Cell-Phone Number (35) 9193 4672

Visit http://www.gaiandemocracy.net/ to read a soon to be
updated synopsis of
"The Condor, the Eagle and Gaia: Co-creating A Just and
Sustainable Global Commonwealth"

See article on Microsoft's Vista below.  

-------Original Message-------
 them. 
From: Roy Madron
Date: 01/31/07 16:15:15
To: marguerite hampton
Subject: Fwd: Microsoft's control - [Fwd: Fw: Who has the key to your Vista
PC?]

Could be of interest to your network

Roy

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NEW Brazilian Cell-Phone Number (35) 9193 4672

Visit http://www.gaiandemocracy.net/ to read a soon to be
updated synopsis of
"The Condor, the Eagle and Gaia: Co-creating A Just and
Sustainable Global Commonwealth"

and extracts from

"Gaian Democracies: Re-defining Globalisation &
People-power"
by Roy Madron and John Jopling. Green Books 2003 

   --- the forwarded message follows ---

From: David Ashton
Date: 01/31/07 10:55:07
To: davidga at phonecoop.coop
Subject: Microsoft's control - [Fwd: Fw: Who has the key to your Vista PC?]

Thought this was worth networking!

Best Wishes,

David.

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Poole
  Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:49 PM
Subject: Who has the key to your Vista PC?

-----Original Message-----
From: greenmail-bounces at lists.greenparty.org.uk
[mailto:greenmail-bounces at lists.greenparty.org.uk] On Behalf Of
greenmail at lists.greenparty.org.uk
Sent: 29 January 2007 11:23
To: Dr Andrew Boswell, Norwich
Cc: News from the Green Party
Subject: [Green Mail] Who has the key to your Vista PC?

NEWS: Green Party in England & Wales

Green Party asks: who has the key to your Vista PC?

Green party slams Vista Landfill nightmare

Microsoft's latest operating system, due for release tomorrow, is
defective by design, putting Microsoft and the corporate media in
control of your computer. (1)

Beneath the gloss they have hidden traps that take away important
consumer rights, force expensive and environmentally damaging
hardware upgrades and hold back the promise of information technology.

Consumers, businesses and government bodies should protect their
interests by migrating to free software, rather than upgrading to
Vista, says the Green Party.

Derek Wall, Green Party Male Principal Speaker, said: "So-called
'digital rights management' technology in Vista gives Microsoft the
ability to lock you out of your computer. Technology should increase our
opportunities to consume media, create our own and share it with others.

"But Vista helps the corporate media take away our consumer rights.
Silence in government betrays a shocking complacency in the face of this
latest attack on our rights."

He continued, "Vista requires more expensive and energy-hungry
hardware, passing the cost on to consumers and the environment. This will
also further exclude the poor from the latest technology, and impose
burdensome costs on small and medium businesses who will be forced to
enter another expensive upgrade cycle.

"Free software can run on existing hardware, reduces licensing costs for
small businesses and affords important freedoms to consumers. The UK
Government should capitalise on this opportunity to promote the use of
free software in public bodies."

Siân Berry, Green Party Female Principal Speaker added:

"There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards and
whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista -
except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista
forces you to use. That's an offensive cost to the environment.

"Future archaeologists will be able to identify a 'Vista Upgrade
Layer' when they go through our landfill sites.

"We should remember that this is about Microsoft trying to dictate the way
that video content gets delivered - much as Apple are trying to do with
iTunes - in order to corner the market.

"Now is the time to act, if we want to see the Microsoft monopoly
kept out of the video market."

She added that Green Party also supported complaints by computer
manufacturers that XAML, a Vista-only internet mark-up standard,
would be another attempt to extend Microsoft's virtual monopoly.(2)

"Microsoft are determined not to play fair and we hope the EU stand up to
them. The best way of course is to insist that we purchase
products that work with open rather than closed standards."

ENDS

Notes for Editors:

(1) http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

(2) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.
20070126.gtmsfteu0126/BNStory/Technology/home

Please contact the Green Party press office for further information

Green Party Press Office
020 7561 0282
http://www.greenparty.org.uk

Published and promoted by Jim Killock for the Green Party, both at 1a
Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ.

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