With the proximity of the release of Windows 7, Free Software Foundation put in the air the campaign “Windows 7 Sins”. In spite of the name the initiative doesn’t criticize the operating system in itself, and actually it is an attack to its creator’s practices, Microsoft.

The company is accused of harming education initiatives on behalf of the profits, to adopt and to promote the use of DRM, to harm the safety of thousands of computers around of the world through flaws in its software, market monopolists’ practices, negligence in the adoption and spread of patterns and invasion of privacy.

The idea is not new; FSF already tried something similar some years ago in the release of Windows Vista with the site BadVista. Besides the new site, the organization sent a letter to the 499 of the 500 larger companies of the world (the exception was own Microsoft), in which tries to nail its point of view close to the formers opinion.

According to specialists, unhappily, the campaign commits the same classic mistake of FSF of just selling ideology and freedom. In the whole site, just one paragraph is destined to the Free Software, and nevertheless using an “old maxim that you can modify the code!” that doesn’t usually make sense for the common user, nor for the companies as the ones that is objective of the campaign. Otherwise, the campaign should inform what will win with Free Software, in practical terms. In other words, they speak Greek to Japanese people.

In the official site of the campaign (windows7sins.org) the interested parties find the list of “sins”, such as the letter, posters and banners endeavors to the companies. FSF also collects donations on behalf of the cause: each donation of US$ 25 results in 50 new letters sent to North American companies, and US$ 100 result in 200 letters.

It could be a good thing, however, when the arrogance of some people is bigger than their objectives, failure is the only option.

Via: Geek.