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[Svnweb-commits] r744 - windows7sins/meta
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[Svnweb-commits] r744 - windows7sins/meta |
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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:44:50 -0400 |
Author: mattl
Date: Wed Oct 7 12:44:50 2009
New Revision: 744
Log:
fixed quotes
Modified:
windows7sins/meta/index.html
Modified: windows7sins/meta/index.html
==============================================================================
--- windows7sins/meta/index.html Wed Oct 7 12:41:23 2009 (r743)
+++ windows7sins/meta/index.html Wed Oct 7 12:44:50 2009 (r744)
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
<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>
+ <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>
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@
<p><address>Write to us with feedback on this webpage: <a
href="mailto:address@hidden">address@hidden</a></address></p>
-<p><!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Wed Oct 7 12:41:16 EDT 2009 <!-- hhmts
end --></p>
+<p><!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Wed Oct 7 12:44:48 EDT 2009 <!-- hhmts
end --></p>
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