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EFF Celebrates Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as "Digital Inclusion", Mocks GNU/Linux-Based ChromeOS

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2024,
updated Oct 05, 2024

Yet another example/evidence that EFF has become a rotten pile of junk:

Digital Inclusion Week, Highlighting an EFA Members Digital Equity Work:

Previously, EFF gave awards to Microsoft staff and did all sorts of other Microsoft PR gestures.

This isn't the EFF that was founded decades ago with involvement by Apple's co-founder. This is a bunch of misfits.

And get this:

CCTV Cambridge is also slated to start hosting classes in 2025. They hope to offer intermediate Windows and Microsoft Office to the cohort as the first step, and then advanced Excel as the second part for returning members of the cohort.

Like a corporate lobby/front group, or some press release parrot that relays messages for Microsoft. What has the EFF become? Did it get paid for this or does it voluntarily shill OOXML, which is in effect the same as rewarding Microsoft for crimes?

Remember what Microsoft did to Eric Lundgren. What sane person calls this "Digital Equity" or "Digital Inclusion"?

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