[Office-commits] r9675 - trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/articles

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Author: www-data
Date: Thu Sep 24 11:15:22 2009
New Revision: 9675

Log:
web commit by mattl

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/articles/education.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/articles/education.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/articles/education.mdwn        Thu Sep 24 
08:16:32 2009        (r9674)
+++ trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/articles/education.mdwn        Thu Sep 24 
11:15:22 2009        (r9675)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 Increasingly, computers are expected to be useful tools in our
 children's education. But today, most children whose education
 involves computers are being taught to use one company's product:
-Microsoft's -- Microsoft spends large sums of money on lobbyists and marketing 
to
+Microsoft's — Microsoft spends large sums of money on lobbyists and 
marketing to
 procure the support of educational departments. 
 
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 Microsoft, either ignoring or not understanding the corrupting
 influence that accepting freebies from this huge corporation has on
 their government. Because Microsoft's software is proprietary, it is
-**incompatible** with education -- users are simply passive consumers in
+**incompatible** with education — users are simply passive consumers in
 their interactions with Windows, they are legally forbidden from
 adapting the software to solve a particular problem, or from
 satisfying an intellectual curiosity by examining its source code. An
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 its commitment to freedom and announced that the machine would also be
 a platform for running the nonfree Windows XP operating system. 
 
-Microsoft is not the only threat to education on Windows XP -- Adobe and Apple 
are both firmly placed in education, even on Windows. Adobe's proprietary Flash 
and Shockwave players and Apple's QuickTime and iTunes are widely used by 
educational software.
+Microsoft is not the only threat to education on Windows XP — Adobe and 
Apple are both firmly placed in education, even on Windows. Adobe's proprietary 
Flash and Shockwave players and Apple's QuickTime and iTunes are widely used by 
educational software.
 
 Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an attempt 
to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It remains to be seen to 
what degree Microsoft will succeed. But with all of this pressure, Microsoft 
has harmed a project that has distributed more than 1 million laptops running 
free software, and has taken aim at the low-cost platform as a way to make poor 
children around the world dependent on its products. The OLPC threatens to 
become another example of the way Microsoft convinces governments around the 
world that an education involving computers must be synonymous with an 
education using Windows. In order to prevent this, it is vital that we work to 
raise global awareness of the harm Microsoft's involvement does to our 
children's education. A great way to do this is by downloading 
[Sugar](http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads) and helping a child in your 
local area experience free software.