MS blocking free software web sites.

[s.fox]

You forgot Google!

Lawrence "Larry" Page & Sergey Brin are the co-founders of Google.

[CharlesA]

Lawrence "Larry" Page & Sergey Brin are the co-founders of Google.

Oooh burn.

[Dr. C]

Conspiracy theories in 5.4.3...............

Well it is starting to look that way. A lot more sites than the FSF are being blocked starting with Ubuntu.com. Here is the link to the Microsoft "reputation" site: https://www.microsoft.com/security/p...s/default.aspx

and some of my results:

Blocked:

fsf.org (well we knew that!)
ubuntu.com
mozilla.org
openoffice.org
libreoffice.org

Dubious:

fedora.org

Allowed:

Opera.com
freebsd.org
stallman.org
gnu.org

So lets see Opera is ok but Firefox is not. Is this because Opera is propriety? FreeBsd is ok but Ubuntu is not. Is this because Free Software is ok only if it is not copylefted?

... however there can be another explanation

Finally why block fsf.org and not block gnu.org or for that matter stallman.org? Is this a conspiracy or just incompetence?

Edit: fedora.org is not the site of the fedora GNU/Linux project the correct site is http://fedoraproject.org/ which is not blocked.

[rai4shu2]

No conspiracy to see here. Just the usual Microsoft incompetence. They *wish* we thought it was a conspiracy. Like John Sullivan so eloquently puts it:

If Microsoft's "reputation" database can't tell the difference between a gambling site and an independently audited registered nonprofit public-interest charity founded almost 30 years ago, it is certainly doing you and your business more harm than good.

[CharlesA]

How do you determine if a site is blocked or not?

[Paqman]

Finally why block fsf.org and not block gnu.org

Especially since gnu.org isn't even about Gnus! Blatantly misleading! Block it!

[Dr. C]

How do you determine if a site is blocked or not?

Go to https://www.microsoft.com/security/p...s/default.aspx and check if the site flags one of the blocked categories in red.

[CharlesA]

Go to https://www.microsoft.com/security/p...s/default.aspx and check if the site flags one of the blocked categories in red.

Does that mean they even block sourceforge, cuz it has a red thing next to "Shareware/Freeware"

[Dr. C]

Does that mean they even block sourceforge, cuz it has a red thing next to "Shareware/Freeware"

Yes

[ExSuSEusr]

Did I ever mention I hate Microsoft?