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From: sysadmin
Subject: [Svnweb-commits] r812 - windows7sins/meta/press
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:02:41 -0500 
Author: mattl
Date: Thu Jan 21 12:02:34 2010
New Revision: 812

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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+<title>Windows 7 Sins Campaign launches international awareness effort with
+translations made available in eight languages</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<h1>Windows 7 Sins Campaign launches international awareness effort with
+translations made available in eight languages</h1>
+
+<p>BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 -- The
+Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that its campaign for
+computer user freedom, Windows 7 Sins, has launched internatioanlly
+with translations and press releases being made available in over
+eight languages, with several more on the way.</p>
+
+<p>The Windows 7 Sins campaign outlines seven major areas where
+proprietary software in general and Microsoft Windows in particular
+hurt all computer users: invading privacy, poisoning education,
+locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behavior,
+enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and threatening user
+security.</p>
+
+<p>These points are outlined in the text of a letter the campaign
+previously mailed to the leaders of the Fortune 500 companies and
+leading NGOs in the United States. The letter warns "Windows 7
+decision makers" about the "lack of privacy, freedom, and security"
+they will suffer should they adopt Windows 7, and makes the case that
+they should instead adopt free software such as the GNU/Linux
+operating system and the office productivity suite OpenOffice.org.</p>
+
+<p>The FSF is asking concerned citizens to help get this message out
+by nominating other organizational leaders who are also "Windows 7
+decision makers" to receive a version of the letter. FSF executive
+director Peter Brown explained, "Many people are frustrated by the
+organizations they interact with and their support for a software
+industry that works against the freedom of citizens. Our national and
+local governments, NGOs, and our universities and schools that use
+proprietary software are undertaking bad public policy, often through
+ignorance or misplaced values. We hope to alert these decision makers
+to the positive contribution they can make to society by switching
+their organizations to free software."</p>
+
+<p>"By translating Windows 7 Sins into as many languages as possible,
+we are making this an international campaign for computer user
+freedom," said Matt Lee, campaigns manager at the FSF. In addition to
+the Web site translations, the FSF is also distributing this press
+release in the same languages, with local representatives in each area
+of the world.</p>
+
+<p>The translation effort, coordinated by FSF campaigns staff working
+with volunteer translators, has been done over the last few months,
+using free software tools and collaborating via the GNU Mailman
+software. The first translation to go live was French, translated by
+members of the French free software activist organization, April.</p>
+
+<p>Interested parties can join the translation effort by visiting
+<http://meta.windows7sins.org/> -- the site has already been
+translated from English into Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish
+and German.</p>
+
+<p>"Translations allow non-English speaking readers to understand the
+stakes of the FSF's campaign. I call on the free software community to
+take advantage of the release of Microsoft Windows 7 to inform their
+friends, family, colleagues about the dangers of proprietary software,
+Microsoft's unfair practices, and the existence of free software,"
+said Matt Lee, campaigns manager.</p>
+
+<p>Volunteers willing to translate Windows 7 Sins and other FSF materials
+into their local language should write to address@hidden</p>
+
+<h2>About the Free Software Foundation</h2>
+
+<p>The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to
+promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and
+redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and
+use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating
+system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free
+software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and
+political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites,
+located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information
+about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
+<http://donate.fsf.org>. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.</p>
+
+<h2>About Free Software and Open Source</h2>
+
+<p>The free software movement's goal is freedom for computer users. Some,
+especially corporations, advocate a different viewpoint, known as "open
+source," which cites only practical goals such as making software
+powerful and reliable, focuses on development models, and avoids
+discussion of ethics and freedom. These two viewpoints are different at
+the deepest level. For more explanation, see
+<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html>.</p>
+
+<h3>Media Contacts</h3>
+
+<p>Matt Lee<br />
+Campaigns Manager<br />
+Free Software Foundation<br />
++1 (617) 542 5942 x24<br />
address@hidden</p>
+
+<hr>
+<address></address>
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+</body> </html>
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