On 23/01/2008, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, January 22, 2008 7:59 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I'd like to know about the direct environmental impact of MS Office, not > > other MS products. I don't want to convince them to switch OS, rather, I > > want to convince them to send newsletters in a non-MSO format. > > This is covered in the "Does Software pollute? Of course!" page I already > provided. If you (the environmentalist organization) switch to MS Office > 2007 on your own computers you may still pretend it's not a big deal (in > spite of > the arguments already provided about this not being such an eco-conscious > attitude). > > But if the organizations starts sending out newsletters and stuff in MS > Office 2007 _formats_ ... it _is_ demanding to all the recipients that > they > send to the landfills perfectly working pieces of very polluting hardware > in order to read that eco-friendly newsletter, unless those computers were > new > enough to install and run decently MS Office 2007. > > This is an argument which remains valid regardless of: > > - the country where this happens > - file sizes > - the price or license of MS Office 2007 or Windows > > Marco
Well, they are still sending .doc and not .docx files. But I'm sure that when they get to that bridge, it will burn under them as well. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
