[Office-commits] r9705 - trunk/campaigns/windows7sins/articles

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Author: www-data
Date: Thu Sep 24 18:09:03 2009
New Revision: 9705

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web commit by mattl

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   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 
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18:09:03 2009        (r9705)
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 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 — 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.