Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to educate people about what it sees as the downsides of using Windows 7 which is set to launch on October 22.
Set up by Richard Stallman in 1985, the FSF aims to promote "computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users."
In its campaign against Windows 7, the FSF cites seven examples of what it says are abuses committed by Microsoft - poisoning education, invading privacy, monopoly behaviour, lock-in, abusing standards, enforcing digital restrictions management and threatening user security.
The main problem, the FSF says, is that users are not allowed to share of modify Windows or examine how its innards work.
It says that wherever computers are involved in education, only one company's products are installed on the computers - Microsoft's.
"An education using the power of computers should be a means to freedom and empowerment, not an avenue for one corporation to instill its monopoly," the FSF says.
It cites the case of Windows Genuine Advantage as one instance of Windows invading the privacy of users and points to the fact that pre-installing of Windows on every PC sold does not give consumers any choice.
The FSF has sent mailouts to 499 of the Fortune 500 companies as part of the campaign.
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