[Office-commits] r9809 - trunk

[sysadmin]

Author: www-data
Date: Tue Sep 29 16:32:41 2009
New Revision: 9809

Log:
web commit by peterb

Modified:
   trunk/appeal-text.mdwn

Modified: trunk/appeal-text.mdwn
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--- trunk/appeal-text.mdwn      Tue Sep 29 16:26:09 2009        (r9808)
+++ trunk/appeal-text.mdwn      Tue Sep 29 16:32:41 2009        (r9809)
@@ -2,16 +2,19 @@
 
 Tomorrow we mark the end of our year long celebration of the 25th anniversary 
of the GNU project, a celebration that we kicked off in September 2008 with a 
wonderful video from author and comedian Stephen Fry http://www.gnu.org/fry/. 
 
-Today, we celebrate the fact that we have passed 25,000 subscribers to our 
monthly newsletter, the Free Software Supporter, and that we count over 3,200 
individuals who have joined the FSF as Associate Members and are the 
individuals who fund all our work. 
+Today, we celebrate the fact that we have passed 25,000 subscribers to our 
monthly newsletter, the Free Software Supporter http://www.fsf.org/fss, and we 
thank the 3,200 individuals who have joined the FSF as Associate Members and 
who are responsible for funding all our work. 
 
-    * Becoming a card carrying FSF Associate Member ($10 a month, $5 for 
students)
-    * Already a member? Give a gift membership to a friend
-    * Or referring a friend to join - and receive recognition
+Becoming a card carrying FSF Associate Member ($10 a month, $5 for students)
+Already a member? Give a gift membership to a friend
+Or referring a friend to join - and receive recognition
 
-I am proud that the Free Software Foundation has such a dedicated membership, 
who every day voice their support for our mission and advocate for a free 
society.
+I am proud that the Free Software Foundation has so many dedicated activists 
and members, who every day voice their support for our mission and advocate for 
a free society.
 
-The Free Software Movement has had an excellent year, and awareness of the 
ethical importance of free software is growing.  With your support the FSF will 
continue to build capacity as an organization to communicate, work with, and 
meet the needs of the free software community. Fighting unjust proprietary 
software, software patents, DRM and Treachorous Computing.
+The Free Software Movement has had an excellent year, and awareness of the 
ethical importance of free software is growing.  With your support the FSF will 
continue to sponsor the GNU project and build capacity as an organization, and 
we will communicate, work with, and meet the needs of the free software 
community. Together, we fight to remove the unjust yolk of proprietary 
software, software patents, DRM and Treachorous Computing, and work to build a 
world of free software where we the users are free.
 
+"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But 
I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building 
walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse 
place." Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
 
 Sincerely,
 
+Peter Brown
+Free Software Foundation