FSF launches a denial-of-service attack on Apple’s Genius Bars
Posted by: admin in Business and Politics
At OSCON this year, MySQL’s Brian Aker made this bold statement:
Microsoft is irrelevant….We’re more worried about Apple.
Perhaps he was taking a cue from MySQL’s Zack Urlocker, who has been buying Macs for family members, but I comprehend the sentiment. Microsoft still dominates the desktop, but the momentum is Apple’s.
Perhaps this is why the Free Software Foundation, which wants to protect everyone’s freedom (except, oddly, on the internet), has gone on another Quixotic campaign to save the world from Apple’s DRM (Digital Rights Management) by clogging its Genius Bars with freedom-loving developers asking questions about freedom and then logging Apple’s non-free responses.
Here’s how it works:
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