MINESWEEPER

International Campaign to Ban Winmine

While in the developed countries children, young people and adults play with "Minesweeper",
at home, Third Worlders can’t play and till the land near their house, or, if they do it,
they run the risk of losing a leg, an arm, or dying because of a real mine. 

As you know, the 1997 Nobel prize for Peace was awarded to ICBL (International Campaign to
Ban Landmine), a cartel of more than 1000 organizations in 60 countries which fight against
the production of these deadly instruments, by clearing the lands of the mines as their own
risk.

This area wants to be the point of departure of a much plainer campaign, which is within 
everyone’s reach: ICBW, the International Campaign to Ban Winmine from all the computers. 

Windows Minesweeper (Winmine) is an offence against the victims of the mines, and to those
who sacrifice themselves, risking their own life, clearing the lands contaminated by these
implements. 

We think Microsoft should be aware of this mistake, and in the next versions of Windows
substitute the game with something more respectful of the person and of the environment.
If this happened, perhaps the Government of the USA would open its eyes.

Some humanitary associations have already written to Microsoft, but they haven’t got any
answer yet. Why don’t we exert pressure on Microsoft?
Let’s delete Winmine from our computers!

Let's invite as many people as possible to behave like that. If many people in Italy, in
Europe, all over the world follow us, Microsoft will be not pretend that nothing has ever
happened. Why don’t we try? Internet permits us to reach a lot people, exactly the owners
of a computer...

Actually: delete (*) and get Winmine deleted from each computer which comes under fire.
Then fill in the form and communicate us the number of "demined" computers. Periodically
 you’ll be informed of the campaign course.

If you want you can replace that game with a very similar one: Winflower (Netscape 3.0 or
MS Internet Explorer 4 only). 
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(*) The program Winmine.exe is in the directory C:\WINDOWS



Comment: 

Windows Minesweeper is an 'offence to mine victims' 
By Robert Blincoe, The Register

"Windows Minesweeper (Winmine) is an offence against the victims of the mines, and to 
those who sacrifice themselves, risking their own life, clearing the lands contaminated
 by these implements," says the International Campaign to Ban Winmine (ICBW).

So it wants you to delete the programme and replace it with its own Winflower game. And 
it wants Microsoft to substitute the game with something more respectful with its next 
version of Windows.
The beta version of Windows XP includes Minesweeper , but there's still time to get it 
removed - if people lobby hard enough.

So far, The ICBW effort has managed to clear up Minesweeper from a pathetic 696 PCs. But
how can this campaign not be a good thing? First stop; kill an addictive little game. And
from there, destroy the landmine manufacturing industry and aid the removal of planted mines.

Bomber Blincoe Bootnote

On a more selfish note, blacklisting Minesweeper could help my mum kick her three hour-a-day
habit. More experienced computer users learn to ignore the freebie game, but Mother Blincoe
appears to have learned little else.

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