[Office-commits] r10049 - trunk/campaigns

[sysadmin]

Author: www-data
Date: Wed Oct  7 19:32:21 2009
New Revision: 10049

Log:
web commit by tal82k

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn    Wed Oct  7 19:31:31 2009        (r10048)
+++ trunk/campaigns/introletter.mdwn    Wed Oct  7 19:32:21 2009        (r10049)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Hi, my name is Tal Schechter, and I am the new campaigns intern at the FSF for 
the Fall of 2009, and am working primarily remotely.  I am currently enrolled 
full-time at Hampshire College as a third-year student concentrating in science 
communication and ancient Jewish text scholarship.  I have been playing with 
computers since his parents got an Apple II Classic in the early nineties.  
Questions of "Tal, why does this not work anymore?" were soon to follow.  
Finally, when 13, I broke away from Macs, with the first PC to enter the 
house-hold.  Both before and after the new PC, I had been going to computer 
camp, where I had first heard about "Linux."  It only took a couple of years 
after getting that first PC before it had a "Linux" install on it.  Ubuntu's 
Breezy Badger, in fact (the geeks at computer camp had insisted on Gentoo, but 
I was not at that level yet).  
+Hi, my name is Tal Schechter, and I am the new campaigns intern at the FSF for 
the Fall of 2009, where I am working primarily remotely.  I am currently 
enrolled full-time at Hampshire College as a third-year student concentrating 
in science communication and ancient Jewish text scholarship.  I have been 
playing with computers since his parents got an Apple II Classic in the early 
nineties.  Questions of "Tal, why does this not work anymore?" were soon to 
follow.  Finally, when 13, I broke away from Macs, with the first PC to enter 
the house-hold.  Both before and after the new PC, I had been going to computer 
camp, where I had first heard about "Linux."  It only took a couple of years 
after getting that first PC before it had a "Linux" install on it.  Ubuntu's 
Breezy Badger, in fact (the geeks at computer camp had insisted on Gentoo, but 
I was not at that level yet).  
 
 An avid "Linux" user for some time, it was not until my first year of college 
that I encountered the concept of GNU/Linux and Free Software as opposed to 
open source.  With the aid of the GLUG there, I learned about the importance of 
the user's freedoms.  While I had been aware of the openness of "Linux," it was 
not until I learned about the freedom aspects of Free Software that he was 
propelled into a proactive projection to convince other people that GNU/Linux 
is a better choice of operating system for them from economic, moral, ethical, 
and social standpoints.