About six or seven months ago when the first real talk of Window Vista I started seeing articles about the DRM present in the new operating system. At that time I didn’t really know what DRM was, but it sounded bad so I decided to check it out.
After researching DRM (Digital Rights Management) I must say I was scared. For those of you who don’t know what DRM means let me simplify it. DRM makes it so you can not buy and own a digital copy of media (music, video, etc), instead, you may buy permission to use the file as long as you follow the rules and observe certain limitations that benefit the seller, which in turn makes them more powerful, and able to come up with even more restrictive policies.
Yeah, not my idea of fun either.
So, now that I’d become aware the restrictive anti-features of Vista I needed to figure what I was going to do to prevent myself from being subjected to this. Luckily, in the comments of a lot of these articles I saw people saying so what, they were running Linux so they didn’t have to worry about it.
Linux? Not worry about it? Sounds like a plan to me.
So I start doing some research on what Linux is. Turns out it’s the name of a whole other operating system you can use to run your computer. Only catch is, it’s not made by some big evil company. Instead, it’s maintained and advanced by a huge community of developers who work on the different distributions (distros) of linux, that are like customized versions for people with different preferences. Sound crazy? I haven’t even gotten to the really crazy part.
They give it away for free. Not just free as in beer, (though in most cases it is) but also free as in freedom, like free speech. When you use this system you are free to use it however you want. You are actually encouraged to tinker with it and make it better, and then share your discoveries with your fellow users, so they might use it if they like too.
What could better demonstrate the reason freedom works so well. People from around the world taking advantage of the free network that is the internet, and using it as the platform to share and distribute everything you could ever need for your computer for free.
The whole idea behind the truth movement of today, whether it be anti war, anti new world order, anti gun control, anti big government, is to spread information to as many people as possible, so that we may reach the critical mass necessary to create real change in this country. One of the greatest assets we have in spreading this information is through the internet, using our computers. Why should we trust this great task to a computer that isn’t going to do what we want when it conflicts with what these giant corporations want it to do.
What happens when they have tools that will turn our computers off when we try to post an unapproved blog?
By then it will to late to win this battle, and much, much farther from taking back our nation.
Lets not see that day.
Sites to look at when thinking about linux:
Ubuntu - This is what I use, and it works great
http://distrowatch.com/ Information about the different linux distros
Youtube video of the Beryl 3-D Desktop Once you see this you’ll want it