Comments on: Boycott Melco

By: eet

eet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:35:05 +0000

Whenever a hospital chooses to make use of machines with non-free software is their own problem. They cannot have freedom with that choice and they are content with this. The only thing we can do for this situation is to educate about freedom and appeal to them to value their own freedom.

By: Dario

Dario — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:01:13 +0000

i’d start boycotting trolls so they disapear

By: eet

eet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:14:45 +0000

Don’t forget to boycott all the machinery in hospitals that runs with unfree software or uses patented technology. Oh, wait, it keeps people alive…

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:52:34 +0000

Anyone can create such a page in our Wiki.

By: DiamondWakizashi

DiamondWakizashi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:47:54 +0000

There should be a list of companies that must be boycotted and the products they make.

By: DiamondWakizashi

DiamondWakizashi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:39:46 +0000

Here is more info about the nasty Melco Holdings Inc.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melco

Products Manufactured by Melco:

* Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector
* Buffalo network-attached storage series
* External hard drive
* HD DVD Computer Drive
* AirStation (Residential gateway)
* AOSS
* Memory – SO-DIMM and DIMM
* USB flash drive
* UPnP Media Rendering Hardware

BOYCOTT MELCO !!!

By: twitter

twitter — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:16:20 +0000

The only thing these two have in common is that software patents are always an injustice. Google's licensing of a video codec is a lot different from M$ selectively shaking down small companies with never revealed patents. I have small and incomplete history of M$'s patent extortion and my own write up of this outrage in particular. Roy's summary is very good, M$ is asserting ownership of all GNU/Linux.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:24:42 +0000

Codecs are not Linux.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:20:24 +0000

Is this really any different from Google paying for the licensing rights for the codecs used in ffmpeg (e.g. for chrome, apparently) …

It’s done without any input (presumably) from the original authors of the code itself, and some of the money might even end up in m$’s pocket for that matter.

By: Eruaran

Eruaran — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:38:00 +0000

This is a most blatant extortion racket.

Seldom have I been more disgusted that this corporation is not dragged into court and at the very least its CEO & top executives are made to feel the full force of the law in relation to such acts of extortion.

People are supposed to go to jail for extortion. But as long as you have corrupt cliques that like to wear labels like, “Department of Justice”, it doesn’t happen.

And what GNU/Linux using company will Microsoft seek to extort next ? Maybe Netgear ?

I wouldn’t be surprised.