Vista today…
Well, since I missed
DefectiveByDesign.org’s Anti-DRM action day I knew I had to do
something, no matter how token, to show I won’t put up with Windows
Vista. The other day I designed some leaflets, then yesterday I
(eventually, long story involving postscript, dodgy margins, cutting and
sticking, etc.) printed them off, cut them up and distributed
them.
It might not
be much, but at least I have shown my colours and I have finally gotten
off my arse to do something rather than just thinking about doing
something. It went quite well I think, I just hung around outside the
Student Union. I met seemingly everyone I know in Sheffield, and gave
them leaflets, (if you’re reading this Mike then good luck with Debian,
and it is GDM you need!) and that was nice. Met someone from Physics and
had a bit of a “What? You’re leafletting? My respect for you has gone
way down.” “Ah, but look what it’s about.” “Oh cool, I’ll have
one.”-type conversation, had a little chat with a nice man who came back
to talk about Vista tracking illegal downloads, having a killswitch for
unlicensed copies, content protection, etc. I don’t know whether what
his friend had said is true or not, but I offered my knowledge and
stuff. Also met a nice man, who I now refer to as “Kubuntu Man”, who
said he was just off to install Kubuntu. I like that man. Also had quite
a few “What’s this about?” “It’s against Windows” “Great!” affairs. I
still have a few left, but the big pile was going down quickly and I
stopped early to go for lunch at Wokmania (I’m not so geeky that I turn
down dinner with my girlfriend in favour of advocating FLOSS). Wokmania
was nice, although I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t already had
a bit to eat. Then a quick tram ride to the train station, a quite long
(and wet) farewell, then a trek back to Ranmoor where I had an
extraordinarily large, and I would say well deserved, poo.
Next on the agenda
is the University’s free Vista downloads, but that will have to wait
until after the 6th (I somehow ended up getting put in charge of the
DVD-playingness of the Pagan Society’s film night and have no idea how
to proceed). Until next time…