[Office-commits] r9917 - trunk/campaigns

[sysadmin]

Author: www-data
Date: Thu Oct  1 15:53:01 2009
New Revision: 9917

Log:
web commit by tal82k

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/thecaranalogy_bullet_style.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/thecaranalogy_bullet_style.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/thecaranalogy_bullet_style.mdwn     Thu Oct  1 15:51:12 
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-**What if buying a car were like buying a computer running Windows or Mac OS 
X? The following example may seem strange at first, but is an interesting 
analogy to understand the important difference between proprietary software 
that is designed to take away your freedom, and free software.**
+Unfortunately, many people do not understand the importance of their freedom 
in the software they use. This is partially due to not understanding how 
computers work.  This is fine, but makes for quite a difficulty in trying to 
communicate why someone should use free software.
+
+To get past all this, let's use an analogy to another machine that many of us
+depend on in our day-to-day lives: our car.  Thanks to years of
+experience and that show on NPR we've somewhat wrapped our heads around
+how a car works.  And despite the car industry's best attempts, cars are
+nowhere near as locked down as proprietary software.
+
+**So, what if buying a car were like buying a computer running Windows or Mac 
OS X? The following example may seem strange at first, but is an interesting 
analogy to understand the important difference between proprietary software 
that is designed to take away your freedom, and free software.**
 
 So, you go to the car dealership and purchase a brand new car: