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
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