Nov. 29 was BMD (Benefit Macromedia Day), so Dec. 24 is Buy No Software (BNS) day
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<h1>If you Buy Nothing you can't visit the entire Buy Nothing website</h1>
The "buy nothing" campaign is like an SUV with an "earth first" bumper sticker.
Or maybe it's like the trendy "gaptivism" pseudo-prostest clothing you can BUY.
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We got <a href=campaign.htm>email calling for donation</a> to a campaign to
fight consumerism and advertising.
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Buy Nothing, the campaign says.  This is exactly what we've been, to a large
extent, already doing.
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Instead of buying a computer, we put together an old system from items
we salvaged from the dumpsters, and from curbside trash.
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Then instead of buying software, we programmed it ourselves, building on top
of much of the GNU Linux FreeSource.
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But because we did not BUY our computers, they won't run Macromedia.
Since many of our computers have old obscure microprocessors, they're not
supported by the Macromedia Microsoft Macintosh Cartel.
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And because none of our computers run Macromedia, we can't properly see their
Buy Nothing campaign.  (Macromedia doesn't provide source code for their
"Free" downloads --- as RMS would say, the Macromedia plugin download is
only "Free as in Free beer, not Free Speech".)
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Here's what the Buy Nothing campaign looks like on our
eyeglass-based screens:
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(If the above image doesn't display properly on your browser, Buy No Software
(BNS) and reformat your hard drive with GNU Linux and a FreeSource browser
such as Konqueror, Galeon, Dillo, or Glynx (Graphical Lynx) or Glinaccess
(accessible GNU Linux for the visually impaired).)
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We were actually thinking of donating to the Buy Nothing campaign,
but what we discovered on the Buy Nothing
campaign page was much worse than offensive ads.
What's much worse than offensive ads?
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Testimonials!
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Testimonials for Closed Source proprietary software.
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It never ceases to amaze us why some of these corporation-bashing websites
and so-called "alternative" culture portals serve as testimonial advertisments
for Macromedia software and other proprietary bloatware.
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So here's my satire of their testimonial.
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I guess we'd call it an adbusterbuster (adbuster<sup>2</sup>).
Bust the adlusters!
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<a href=adbusters_adlusters_bnd_screengrab_before_being_edited.png>Here</a>
is a version of the site as it originally appeared in a freesource browser.
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<h2>Buy No Software (BNS) boycotts Closed Source Testimonal websites.</h2>
Corporate websites such as BND, while alleging to free us from consumerism,
actually support Closed Source software consumerism.
How can we be free of consumerism when encouraging the proliferation
of the Macromedia Microsoft Macintosh Cartel.  BNS encourages the
use of GNU Linux, as an alternative to the MacMicMac Cartel.
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BNS, held in conjunction with WSD (World Sousveillance Day), December 24th.
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While the major corporations continue to produce sites that promote 
coroporate Closed Source software (that is often also inaccessible to
the visually impaired), we had sincerely hoped that if there was ever
going to be any resistance to this Proprietarization of the Web, that
it might come from the arts community.  We therefore call upon the 
arts community to call into question the Proprietarization of the Web,
and the Proprietarization of our communications and interactional media.

<h1>Let's Stop Stuffing our Stockings with Software...</h1>

At the epoch (Dec. 24th) of the orgy of commerce that serves as the endcap
of every year, it is time to also take a critical look at the
corporatization of cyberspace.

<p>Therefore, in cooperation with World Sousveillance Day
(inverse surveillance day:
<a href=http://www.wearcam.org/wsd.htm>www.wearcam.org/wsd.htm</a>),
DEC 24 will also
be a day of protest against software cartels, corporate software alliances
in association with powerful states, and international software
bureaucracies, which regulate and support private closed-source
software power.

<p>How to participate:
<ul>
<li> Refrain from using any closed-source operating systems or programs;
<li> Refrain from using or sending Proprietary Document Format (PDF) files,
   because PDF encourages the use of softWARE;
<li> Refrain from donating money to organizations (like BND) that promote
     Corporate Software Cartels, or that provide Web content in
     Proprietarized file formats.
<li> Instead of using Macromedia, Microsoft, Macintosh, or PDF,
     use HTML or LaTeX;
<li> Instead of installing Virus95, 98, NT, or Virus2000,
     or VirusOS and VirusX/MACvirus, try GNU Linux;
<li> Stop calling computer programs softWARE ("WARE" means a good or
     article of commerce and not all computer programs are commerce);
<li> Configure your mailer to bounce any attachments such as ms-word or PDF
     that use Proprietary Document Formats (PDF);
<li> Convert your RealVirus (real audio, real video) files to MPEG,
     until Real Networks provides the ENCODER not just the player for free
     (free as in free speech, not just free beer, otherwise they're just
     getting people hooked on WARE like how the first drug fix is
     always "free").  Try taking any RealVideo or RealAudio links off your
     website for just one day.
<li> Stop stuffing stockings with softWARE gifts at Christmas.
<li> Setup some BNS (Buy Nothing Service) servers to ensure no softWARE is on
     your hard drive.  Try to conduct just this one single day of your life
     using only free programs such as GNU Linux.  Try to conduct this very
     protest using only free programs.
</ul>

<p>If even just a small number of persons participate, this will send a
message to others that it is possible to communicate and live in
cyberspace without softWARE.
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This work belongs to <a href=http://existech.com>EXISTech Corporation</a>
because I did this work while on Company Time (TM).
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This work is released under GNU GPL, in accordance with
EXISTech Corporate Policy and Procedure Number 65535.
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--EXISTech Employee number 9432,
acting in the capacity of Assistant Filing Clerk Trainee.
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<a href=http://wearcam.org/bns/bns.htm>http://wearcam.org/bns.htm</a>
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<h2>Buy Nothing Christmas requires you to BUY Microsoft Word</h2>
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<h2>See a sature of Buy Nothing Christmas</h2>
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