Computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... onomyId=17]Microsoft issues blanket licence to Russian NGOs
Why is this a "yay!"? It seems that the Russian government has been seizing the computers of NGOs that oppose it on the pretext that they're running pirated Microsoft software. Microsoft just torpedoed that particular excuse to crack down on dissent.
(One roadblock to true democracy removed, far too many to go...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Why is this a "yay!"? It seems that the Russian government has been seizing the computers of NGOs that oppose it on the pretext that they're running pirated Microsoft software. Microsoft just torpedoed that particular excuse to crack down on dissent.
(One roadblock to true democracy removed, far too many to go...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012