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NewsForge: FSF Launches Anti-DRM Campaign Outside WinHEC 2006

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Bruce Byfield
May 24, 2006

“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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