Talk:Defective by Design/Archives/2012

Large edit

I've just finished a large edit, which I hope everyone is OK with. In addition to converting the refs as I mentioned I'd do earlier, I made some other bold edits. I removed "the first blog post appears to be from May 2006 [1]" because this seems to be the original research by the writer: to whom does that appear to be the case? Let's find a citation for that information if we decide to keep it. Sorry if this seems overly picky. My other reason for this removal was that I thought that sentence was too long: The campaign was launched in summer 2006 (the first blog post appears to be from May 2006 [2]) with an anti-DRM protest at WinHEC featuring FSF members in yellow hazmat suits "handing out pamphlets explaining that Microsoft products are — in the words of the key slogan for the campaign — 'defective by design' because of the DRM technologies included in them." I cut the sentence in two.

I also merged the former "goals" section with the lead so that the latter would be more than just a single sentence.

One thing that I think would help this article (aside from more references!) would be a consice description of what exactly DRM is, for the uninitiated. Just a sentence near the beginning of the lead would be great. Anyway, I hope there aren't any problems with my edit, if there are undo them or discuss here. Thanks, delldot | talk 01:55, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Given the somewhat contentious nature of the DRM debate, I think it would be exceedingly difficult to craft a concise description in NPOV and a link to the main DRM article is probably the better choice. RandyKaelber 22:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)