NewsForge: FSF Launches Anti-DRM Campaign Outside WinHEC 2006
May 24, 2006, 14:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)
"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) launched its anti-Digital
Rights Management (DRM) campaign in Seattle this morning. When
attendees of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)
2006 arrived at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center to
hear a keynote address by Bill Gates, a small group of FSF members
and their local allies were waiting to greet them, dressed in
yellow hazmat suits and handing out pamphlets explaining that
Microsoft products are--in the words of the key slogan for the
campaign--'defective by design' because of the DRM technologies
included in them..."
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