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+-   FSF attacks Apple Genius Bars, forgets web freedom-> on Saturday July 26 2008, @10:22AM mjasay

Submitted by mjasay on Saturday July 26 2008, @10:22AM
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mjasay writes "At OSCON this year, MySQL's Brian Aker made this bold statement: "Microsoft is irrelevant....We're more worried about Apple." The Free Software Foundation appears to have caught the hint, and has turned its attention to all-things-Apple with a "denial of service" attack on the Apple Genius Bars. The idea is to completely book all Genius Bars and then ask the "geniuses,", over and over again, a few questions about Apple's proprietary ways (while, apparently, real customers with support issues are left to flounder). Lost in this anti-Apple fervor, however, is the Free Software Foundation's complete and conscious failure to protect the web. Richard Stallman has long felt that software that doesn't sit on his desktop doesn't affect his freedom, but isn't the opposite true? Why is the FSF focused on Apple when the bigger concern should be Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, and other web players, a point made by Tim O'Reilly recently at OSCON?"
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