About the box: perhaps a box that looks like a gift that has a beautiful ribbon, however the top of the ribbon has a shape of a padlock with a complicated key hole.
This is essentially what MS want to do, they present Vista as this great addon that comes as a beautiful "gift" with a new computer, however it is a gift that you are not allowed to "open" it and not even have a look!!! 2007/5/31, John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Hiếu Hoàng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > I think the 'Parental advisory' should be 'Microsoft advisory', > > Or maybe just WARNING. Or "User advisory"? > > > On the blackbox restriction, I think of "Secured from the user". The > > EULA's usual "no reverse engineering" and the Protected Media Path cue > > me of this. But the slogan should points to the crippling 'features' > > when using 'unprotected' devices. > > > > I'm also worried about the box being not altered enough. Maybe draping a chain > with a padlock around the box would be good? Or having a handcuff trailing out > from the bottom of the box, as if the user is supposed to handcuff herself to > the box? > > -- > John Sullivan > Campaigns Manager | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 | http://badvista.org > 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 | http://www.gnu.org > Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 | http://www.fsf.org > > "Microsoft put all those functionality-crippling features into Vista because > it > wants to own the entertainment industry. This isn't how Microsoft spins it, of > course. It maintains that it has no choice...It's all complete nonsense." > --Bruce Schneier, "DRM in Windows Vista" > > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > [email protected] > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
