[GetReady] Tagging Vista at Amazon.com, and an update

BadVista.org Campaign News getready at badvista.org
Tue Jan 23 16:24:08 EST 2007


Most storeowners might frown on stickering products on their shelves, but
Amazon.com encourages customers to leave labels using their tagging system. 

You can help advertise the unadvertised restrictions included in Vista by
participating in this action:

  DefectiveByDesign.org successfully campaigned to add tags to DRM-laden
  products being sold via Amazon. You can now find over 775 crippled products
  tagged with “defectivebydesign”.

  Unsurprisingly, the various versions of Windows Vista are already on that list.
  14 people have gotten the ball rolling by tagging “Microsoft Windows Vista Home
  Premium” with “defectivebydesign”.

  How about we get some more up there? Take a minute to visit the page for each
  of the Vista versions and leave tags that express your opinion about the
  software, so that other potential users will have a chance to learn about the
  unadvertised Vista “features” that lock you out of your own computer.

(Read more at <http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/tagging-vista-at-amazon.com>, and
digg it to help get the word out at
<http://digg.com/software/BadVista_org_Tagging_Vista_at_Amazon_com>.)

Also, thanks to everyone who sent feedback to Microsoft about their exclusion
of BadVista.org from search results at live.com! We're making progress
there---a search for "BadVista" does now finally turn up results from the site.

-- 
John Sullivan
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