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[Office-commits] r9972 - trunk/campaigns/windows7sins


From: sysadmin
Subject: [Office-commits] r9972 - trunk/campaigns/windows7sins
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:07:13 -0400

Author: www-data
Date: Mon Oct  5 10:07:13 2009
New Revision: 9972

Log:
web commit by peterb

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/pr-ngo.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/pr-ngo.mdwn
==============================================================================
--- trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/pr-ngo.mdwn    Mon Oct  5 10:02:24 2009        
(r9971)
+++ trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/pr-ngo.mdwn    Mon Oct  5 10:07:13 2009        
(r9972)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 -- The Free
 Software Foundation (FSF) today launched the next stage of its
 "Windows 7 Sins" campaign at <http://windows7sins.org>, making the
-case against Microsoft and proprietary software by writing to 500 leaders of 
the largest charities, non-profit organizations and NGOs, asking them to make
+case against Microsoft and proprietary software by writing to 500 leaders of 
the largest charities and NGOs, asking them to make
 the switch to freedom respecting free software and to help foster awareness of 
the ethical importance of computer user freedom.
 
 The letter warns these "Windows 7 decision makers" about the "lack of
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@
 leveraging monopolistic behavior, enforcing Digital Restrictions
 Management (DRM), and threatening user security.
 
-FSF executive director Peter Brown said, "The 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. Free software is about freedom, not 
price, and it is designed to give you the ability to study and improve the 
software for your own needs. Today, we're asking leaders in the non-for-profit 
sector to switch to the free software GNU/Linux operating system for all their 
desktop computing and infrastructure needs."
+FSF executive director Peter Brown said, "The 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. Free software on the other hand, is 
about freedom, not price, and it is designed to give you the ability to study 
and improve the software for your own needs. Today, we're asking leaders in the 
non-for-profit sector to switch to the free software GNU/Linux operating system 
for all their desktop and computer infrastructure needs."
 
 The GNU/Linux operating system is readily available and
-easy-to-use and supported by numerous vendors.  GNU/Linux distributions come 
with thousands of freely licensed software applications, including complete 
accounting and fundraising solutions suitable for charities.
+easy-to-use and supported by numerous vendors and a worldwide community.  
GNU/Linux distributions come with thousands of freely licensed software 
applications, including complete accounting and fundraising solutions suitable 
for charities.
 
 FSF campaigns manager Matt Lee added, "Charities, NGOs, and other
 non-profit organizations that choose proprietary software are




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