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Pledge “boycottvista”

"I will not purchase any computing equipment from manufactures that recommend Windows Vista™ or any other Microsoft® products but only if 100,000 potential computer buyers around the world will do the same."

— Ottavio Caruso (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 31st December 2008
165 people signed up, 99835 more were needed

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A computer with Microsoft® Windows Vista™ preinstalled is a locked computer, which will only run Microsoft-approved applications and media files.

Windows Vista™ is the ultimate vendor lock-in. You will spend tons of money but you will not be free to do what you want with it.

Avoid computers with Microsoft® Windows preinstalled; avoid buying from high-street retailers. If you have the skills, build the computer yourself.

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Current signatories (Green text = they've done it)

Ottavio Caruso, the Pledge Creator, joined by:

  • Andrzej Zaborowski
  • mereale maro
  • Stefan Nolde
  • TetSio[Nainn]
  • Петр
  • Kathryn V. Lalonde
  • BSDobermann
  • Паша Араюмс
  • Ivan M Makarenko
  • David Roberts
  • xyz
  • Dan Kruchinin
  • M. Konstantin (dixel)
  • ipse
  • Ilya "rumaxi" B.
  • Kolyan[ufalug]
  • Ilya aka XiL
  • Incred
  • Dmitri "S0ReX"
  • Voldemar Lazarev
  • Evgeniy (Amperandus)
  • Evil_And
  • bugmaker
  • Drisch
  • Ars
  • Alexey Mikhailov
  • Alexandr Dmitriev
  • LucidFox
  • Paul P. Komkoff Jr
  • RZguest
  • Vitaliy T.
  • skyfi
  • AlexB
  • Nicolas Vigier
  • Max Stotsky
  • Мамінов Антон
  • Cris
  • FlySnake
  • Dmitry Koptev
  • A15Y87
  • observer
  • unnamed (friend of karma)
  • schumen
  • Graber
  • Vazetdinov Igor
  • Anatoliy Okhotnikov
  • Roman Ulianenok
  • Sergey Zhilkin
  • Russell Coker
  • b0b3
  • Andrey Jernosek
  • Lester
  • Indiestory
  • C. Harris
  • Jason Carroll
  • Daniel Reimer
  • Bitterman
  • Damian Wojsław
  • Ramil Clarin
  • Adam Heczko
  • Aurélio A. Heckert
  • Serge Daniloff
  • Leandro Nunes dos Santos
  • xaos
  • Grazieno Pellegrino
  • xrs2000 (GNU Against Capitalism and Monopolies)
  • Valery Honig
  • Laura Kataja
  • WoolF
  • Osama Bin Laden
  • Tony Spinillo
  • Howl
  • Erik Edelmann
  • Etrans
  • Yuri Tsarev
  • Mykola Dzham
  • Dobrov Sergey
  • Stentor O'Hobb
  • Kendall Bailey
  • misterV
  • Selim13
  • Артём фарафонов
  • theD
  • KUlibiN
  • Genius
  • efim losev
  • Fernando Vezzosi
  • xomyak rex
  • Zerk
  • Tim Knowles
  • Marco Bernardini
  • Cavallari Franca
  • Matt
  • Gediminas
  • Frank Schaefer
  • Onur Aslan
  • Maxym Dilay
  • HappySmileMan
  • Joseph
  • Matthew Correia
  • Michael Jolley
  • Monakhoff
  • enzo
  • Cameron Porter
  • Paul Stroud
  • James Rowe
  • Броневой Александр
  • Evan Jones
  • Forge
  • Eric
  • CrackMaster aka KoS
  • Nix
  • WillemV
  • Clemens Sauerzopf
  • JohnT
  • Stefan Steiniger
  • ralf tauscher
  • veronese claudio
  • Giacomo Lacava
  • Love all things Linux
  • Christophe PERNOD
  • Bernd Dupal
  • Heike
  • Orion
  • Bram Dumolin
  • Artificiere
  • Стельмах Павло
  • firewolk
  • Pavel Moltchanov
  • Peter Tworek
  • Dmitriy
  • rkit
  • ThunderBoy
  • Wilson Wong
  • miXel
  • f
  • newton
  • Daniel Mota Leite
  • Lorándka
  • Sergej Ovsepjan
  • ELLIOT MYRICK
  • Marcos Moyano
  • Mikhail Arefiev
  • James Serrat
  • Michael Vickery
  • Хуй
  • T. Jones
  • Chris Pet
  • Павел Колчанов
  • Dmitry Dzhus
  • David Rowlinson
  • ebbeyes
  • Giuseppe Spagnolo
  • 12 people who did not want to give their names, 1 of whom has done the pledge

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