April's strike in front of Microsoft France GQ.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFchGtjn7U

April, a french NGO that promote free software in France, did this small strike to protest against the planned obsolescence of windows’s computers.

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I’m a bit confused. Are they protesting a switch to Linux, or protesting that Win OS’s go extinct too quickly?

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They are protesting against windows planned obsolescence. It will make millions computers unusable.

And they also promote switching to linux :)

I’m translating some part of the video so that you can understand their message better :

  • on the coffin : 300 millions of computers
  • Farewell Windows, Hello to Free Software
  • don’t waste/bury computers, free them
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Thanks! Spoken French is too fast for me to understand.

windows planned obsolescence

Okay, so basically the 2nd thing I mentioned. Not that Windows is totally going extinct as an OS. (altho that might be a nice idea, hehe)

Good for these people, then.

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Sadly, i’m Deaf so i can’t transcript the speech in the video but they probably talked about the environment’s impact & free software. Alternatiba is NGO that fight against climate change similar to greenpeace.

Anyway, i hope it will give us some ideas. :)

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Fellow disabled-person, salut! (I have CFS/ME)

Well, good on them. And I still need to add Linux as a dual-boot, here. >_<

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