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From: Holmes Wilson <holmes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:53 AM
Subject: [fsf-community-team] [HELP!] Apple iPad press work
To: FSF Community Team <fsf-community-team@xxxxxxx>, campaigns-nonrt@xxxxxxx
Hey everyone,
It would be awesome if people could help circulate news about iPad's
dangerous DRM scheme on the popular sites writing about the iPad launch.
We had protesters on the scene at the event, and launched a petition against
iPad DRM. A summary of our main points (which you can glean by reading the
posts): it's a general purpose computer whose manufacturer (and its business
partners) have total veto power over the applications you can run. This is
not the direction that anybody sane wants to see computing take.
Protest images from today's event:
http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/apple/apple-live-1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nUtZK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ion9W.jpg
And our petition:
http://defectivebydesign.org/ipad
Blog posts: http://defectivebydesign.org/
Thanks... not sure if we'll want to be using the list for stuff like this
all the time, but this seems like a pretty big deal, so I thought I'd ask
the group to get involved. Should have sent this email four hours ago but I
was pretty overloaded today :) !!!
-Holmes
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