[Svnweb-commits] r740 - windows7sins/meta

[sysadmin]

Author: mattl
Date: Wed Oct  7 12:38:41 2009
New Revision: 740

Log:
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   windows7sins/meta/index.html

Modified: windows7sins/meta/index.html
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--- windows7sins/meta/index.html        Wed Oct  7 12:30:38 2009        (r739)
+++ windows7sins/meta/index.html        Wed Oct  7 12:38:41 2009        (r740)
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 
    h4 {font-size: 140%;}
 
+   .odd {background-color: LightCyan;}
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+   .even {background-color: Gainsboro;}
+
+   .odd, .even {padding: 1em; margin: 1em 0 1em 0;}
+
    </style>
 
 </head>
@@ -37,6 +43,8 @@
          campaign. Here are some ideas for things you can do which
          don't take very long at all.</p>
 
+         <div class="odd">
+
          <h4>Step 1. Join the mailing list</h4>
 
          <blockquote>
@@ -54,20 +62,36 @@
 
          </blockquote>
 
+           </div>
+
+           <div class="even">
+
          <h4>Step 2. Email a copy of our letter to a non-profit you 
support:</h4>
 
          <p><a href="mailto:?subject=Re: Important notice regarding impending 
lack of privacy, freedom and security from Microsoft 
Corporation.&address@hidden&body=As a decision maker within your organization, 
you undoubtedly strive to make choices that seek to improve the working lives 
of your employees, enhance the relationship you have with your stakeholders and 
donors and secure the independence and freedom for your organization to achieve 
its mission.%0A%0AFor many years, charities and nonprofit organizations like 
yours have relied on Microsoft and the Windows operating system, and because 
they threaten to stop supporting older versions of Windows in the long-term, 
and because their system is proprietary (not free/libre), you are dependent on 
them to provide regular security updates and fixes. Threatening to withdraw 
their support, they abuse their monopoly position to strong-arm you into 
adopting new versions of their software, even when you don't need the new 
"features" and even when updating negatively affects your ability to 
operate.%0A%0AThe dependency of organizations working for social change and 
improvement on software owned and exclusively controlled by Microsoft is 
leading society into an era of digital restrictions, threatening and limiting 
our freedoms. Microsoft Windows was engineered from the ground up as a Digital 
Restrictions Management (DRM) and Treacherous Computing (TC) platform. 
Microsoft hides these defects under more benign-sounding names like "Digital 
Rights Management" and "Trusted Computing" -- the fact is that Windows is 
designed to limit what people can do with documents and digital media 
files.%0A%0AAs with Windows Vista, Windows 7 represents Microsoft's continued 
attacks against the security, privacy and freedom of your organization, and are 
no mistake. Microsoft has a history of manipulating computer manufacturers into 
installing its products onto the computers you purchase.%0A%0ABecause of 
Microsoft, many decision makers in the not-for-profit sector are wholly 
dependent on the Windows operating system for their organizational 
computing.%0A%0AThe root cause of this dependency is proprietary software (not 
free/libre) and with the release of Windows 7, you have an opportunity to break 
your organization's dependency on it.%0A%0AFree software is about freedom, and 
not price. Free software is software that you can use and adapt independent of 
any one vendor, such as the GNU/Linux operating system or the business 
productivity suite OpenOffice.org. Free software provides all of the freedoms 
Microsoft tries to deny, and is therefore better in all areas: security, 
accountability and monetary cost. GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org are available 
from numerous vendors ensuring competition for your patronage and your freedom 
to change supplier.%0A%0AFree software is more secure because you, your IT 
supplier and the wider IT community are independently able to read the source 
code of and customize any program you use in your infrastructure. It saves you 
from relying on a secretive third party, and the public availability of free 
software code means that many qualified eyeballs, the security experts and 
researchers around the world, are continually studying and reporting on its 
integrity.%0A%0AReplacing all your desktop systems with GNU/Linux will give you 
independence from Microsoft, access to thousands of free software applications, 
and help break the social ill of proprietary software. Thousands of 
organizations have already moved to free software. What's your organizational 
plan?%0A%0AInvesting in Microsoft's Windows 7 will only get you more stuck and 
more dependent on them.%0A%0ATake the next step -- evaluate your organization's 
opportunity to use free software -- and sign up for regular announcements on 
making the move away from Windows and to receive information about the work of 
the Free Software Foundation: http://windows7sins.org/signup.";>Send the email 
direct from your email client</a> or <a 
href="http://en.windows7sins.org/letter/ngos/";>copy/paste</a> into a new 
message if you use web-mail.</p>
 
+          </div>
+
+         <div class="odd">
+
          <h4>Step 3. Email a copy of our letter to a company you know or 
use:</h4>
 
          <p><a href="mailto:?subject=Re: Important notice regarding impending 
lack of privacy, freedom and security from Microsoft 
Corporation.&address@hidden&body=As a decision maker within your organization, 
you undoubtedly strive to make choices that seek to improve the working lives 
of your employees, enhance the relationship you have with your customers and 
potential customers and secure the independence and freedom for your 
organization to operate.%0A%0AFor many years, companies like yours have relied 
on Microsoft and the Windows operating system. With the release of Windows 7 in 
October, Microsoft is selling the new version on a combination of fear and 
threats. They threaten to stop supporting older versions of Windows in the 
long-term, and because their system is proprietary (not free/libre), you are 
dependent on them to provide regular security updates and fixes. With the 
threat to withdraw their support, they try to strong-arm you into adopting new 
versions of their software even when you don't need them and may have a 
negative consequence to your ability to operate, once again abusing its 
monopoly position, explicitly inducing vendor lock-in.%0A%0ALike its plans to 
include DRM restrictions with Windows Vista, Microsoft's continued attacks 
against the security, privacy and freedom of your organization, are no mistake. 
Microsoft has a history of manipulating computer manufacturers into installing 
its products onto the computers you purchase.%0A%0AWith its most recent 
actions, it further threatens computing standards by polluting and perverting 
the OpenDocument standard with its own XML-based file format.%0A%0ABecause of 
Microsoft, many decision makers in America are now wholly dependent on the 
Windows operating system for their business computing.%0A%0AThe root cause of 
this dependency is proprietary software (not free/libre) and with the release 
of Windows 7, you have an opportunity to break your organization's dependency 
on it.%0A%0AFree software is about freedom not price. Free software is software 
that you can use and adapt independent of any one vendor, such as the GNU/Linux 
operating system or the business productivity suite OpenOffice. Free software 
provides all of the freedoms Microsoft tries to deny, and is therefore better 
in all areas: security, accountability and monetary cost. GNU/Linux and 
OpenOffice are available from numerous vendors ensuring competition for your 
patronage and your freedom to change supplier.%0A%0AMicrosoft's recent 10-K 
reports (June 30th, 2009) speak of free software and tell a similar 
story:%0A%0A    The OpenOffice.org project provides a freely downloadable 
cross-platform application that also has been adapted by various commercial 
software vendors to sell under their brands, including IBM, Novell, Red Hat, 
and Sun Microsystems.%0A%0A    Despite these efforts, actual or perceived 
security vulnerabilities in our products could lead some customers to seek to 
return products, to reduce or delay future purchases, or to use competing 
products.%0A%0AFree software is more secure because you and the wider community 
are independently able to read the source code of and customize any program you 
use in your infrastructure. It saves you from relying on a secretive third 
party, and the public availability of free software code means that many 
qualified eyeballs, the security experts and researchers around the world, are 
continually studying and reporting on its integrity.%0A%0AReplacing all your 
desktop systems with GNU/Linux will give you independence from Microsoft, 
access to thousands of free software applications, and help break the social 
ill of proprietary software. Thousands of organizations have already moved to 
free software. What's your organizational plan?%0A%0AInvesting in Microsoft's 
Windows 7 will only get you more stuck and more dependent on them.%0A%0ATake 
the next step -- evaluate your organization's opportunity to use free software 
-- and sign up for regular announcements on making the move away from Windows 
and to receive information about the work of the Free Software Foundation: 
http://windows7sins.org/signup.";>Send the email direct from your email 
client</a> or <a href="http://en.windows7sins.org/letter/";>copy/paste it</a> 
into a new message if you use web mail.</p>
 
           <p><span class="highlight">Be sure to let us know how it 
goes!</span></p>
 
+          </div>
+
+         <div class="even">
+
           <h4>Step 4. Distribute our flyer, adding copies to any notice boards 
in your work place or school</h4>
 
           <p><a href="http://en.windows7sins.org/i/flyer-tiny.png";>Download 
and print this flyer</a> (PDF)</p>
 
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="odd">
+
           <h4>Step 5. Add our widget to your website or blog.</h4>
 
          <p><a href="http://en.windows7sins.org/i/widget.png";><img 
src="http://en.windows7sins.org/i/widget.png"; alt="Widget"></a></p>
@@ -81,6 +105,10 @@
 
         </div>
 
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="even">
+
         <h4>Step 6. Add Windows 7 Sins to your social networking sites.</h4>
 
         <p>Now help us raise awareness against Microsoft and Windows
@@ -123,6 +151,8 @@
          can learn more about the issues with network services at <a
          href="http://autonomo.us";>http://autonomo.us</a>.</p>
 
+         </div>
+
          <h3>If you have more time</h3>
 
          <ul>
@@ -395,7 +425,7 @@
 
 <p><address>Write to us with feedback on this webpage: <a 
href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a></address></p>
 
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