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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
trans-coord/gnun/philosophy why-free.html |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:10:10 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/trans-coord
Module name: trans-coord
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 10/07/22 18:10:10
Modified files:
gnun/philosophy: why-free.html
Log message:
Automatic sync from the master www repository.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/why-free.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.19&r2=1.20
Patches:
Index: why-free.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/trans-coord/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/why-free.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -b -r1.19 -r1.20
--- why-free.html 21 Jul 2010 18:10:09 -0000 1.19
+++ why-free.html 22 Jul 2010 18:10:10 -0000 1.20
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
<h2>Why Software Should Not Have Owners</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard
Stallman</strong></a></p>
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard
+Stallman</strong></a></p>
<p>
Digital information technology contributes to the world by making it
@@ -39,33 +40,32 @@
practices of the Software Publishers Association (SPA):</p>
<ul>
- <li>Massive propaganda saying it is wrong to disobey the owners
-to help your friend.</li>
+<li>Massive propaganda saying it is wrong to disobey the owners to
+help your friend.</li>
- <li>Solicitation for stool pigeons to inform on their coworkers and
+<li>Solicitation for stool pigeons to inform on their coworkers and
colleagues.</li>
- <li>Raids (with police help) on offices and schools, in which people are
-told they must prove they are innocent of illegal copying.</li>
-
- <li>Prosecution (by the US government, at the SPA's request)
-of people such as <abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of
-Technology">MIT</abbr>'s David LaMacchia, not for copying software (he
-is not accused of copying any), but merely for leaving copying
-facilities unguarded and failing to censor their use.<a
href="#footnote1">[1]</a></li>
+<li>Raids (with police help) on offices and schools, in which people
+are told they must prove they are innocent of illegal copying.</li>
+<li>Prosecution (by the US government, at the SPA's request) of people
+such as
+<acronym title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</acronym>'s
+David LaMacchia, not for copying software (he is not accused of
+copying any), but merely for leaving copying facilities unguarded and
+failing to censor their use.<a href="#footnote1">[1]</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
All four practices resemble those used in the former Soviet Union,
where every copying machine had a guard to prevent forbidden copying,
and where individuals had to copy information secretly and pass it
-from hand to hand as samizdat. There is of course a
-difference: the motive for information control in the Soviet Union was
-political; in the US the motive is profit. But it is the actions that
-affect us, not the motive. Any attempt to block the sharing of
-information, no matter why, leads to the same methods and the same
-harshness.</p>
+from hand to hand as samizdat. There is of course a difference: the
+motive for information control in the Soviet Union was political; in
+the US the motive is profit. But it is the actions that affect us,
+not the motive. Any attempt to block the sharing of information, no
+matter why, leads to the same methods and the same harshness.</p>
<p>
Owners make several kinds of arguments for giving them the power
@@ -298,9 +298,8 @@
<h4>Footnotes</h4>
<ol>
-<li>
-<a id="footnote1">The charges were subsequently dismissed.</a>
-</li>
+<li id="footnote1">The charges were subsequently dismissed.</li>
+</ol>
<hr />
<h4>This essay is published
@@ -322,12 +321,12 @@
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -345,10 +344,9 @@
preserved.
</p>
-<p>
-Updated:
+<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/07/21 18:10:09 $
+$Date: 2010/07/22 18:10:10 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -356,18 +354,24 @@
<div id="translations">
<h4>Translations of this page</h4>
-<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
-<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is Deutsch.-->
-<!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
-<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
-<!-- - /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
-<!-- - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
-<!-- - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
-<!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
-<!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
-<!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus -->
-<!-- <URL:http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm> -->
-<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities -->
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical by language code.
+ Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is German.
+ Write the language name in its own language (Deutsch) in the text.
+ If you add a new language here, please
+ advise address@hidden and add it to
+ - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html
+ - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway"
+ - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias
+ to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases
+ Please also check you have the language code right; see:
+ http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
+ If the 2-letter ISO 639-1 code is not available,
+ use the 3-letter ISO 639-2.
+ Please use W3C normative character entities.
+
+ See also '(web-trans)Capitalization':
+
http://gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/web-trans/html_node/Capitalization.html
+ -->
<ul class="translations-list">
<!-- Arabic -->
@@ -375,11 +379,11 @@
<!-- Bulgarian -->
<li><a
href="/philosophy/why-free.bg.html">български</a> [bg]</li>
<!-- Catalan -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.ca.html">Català</a> [ca]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.ca.html">català</a> [ca]</li>
<!-- Czech -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.cs.html">Česky</a> [cs]</li>
<!-- Danish -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.da.html">Dansk</a> [da]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.da.html">dansk</a> [da]</li>
<!-- German -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.de.html">Deutsch</a> [de]</li>
<!-- Greek -->
@@ -387,19 +391,19 @@
<!-- English -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.html">English</a> [en]</li>
<!-- Spanish -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.es.html">Español</a> [es]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.es.html">español</a> [es]</li>
<!-- Persian/Farsi -->
<li><a
href="/philosophy/why-free.fa.html">فارسی</a> [fa]</li>
<!-- French -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.fr.html">français</a> [fr]</li>
<!-- Croatian -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.hr.html">Hrvatski</a> [hr]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.hr.html">hrvatski</a> [hr]</li>
<!-- Hungarian -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.hu.html">Magyar</a> [hu]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.hu.html">magyar</a> [hu]</li>
<!-- Indonesian -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.id.html">Bahasa Indonesia</a> [id]</li>
<!-- Italian -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.it.html">Italiano</a> [it]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.it.html">italiano</a> [it]</li>
<!-- Japanese -->
<li><a
href="/philosophy/why-free.ja.html">日本語</a> [ja]</li>
<!-- Korean -->
@@ -409,11 +413,11 @@
<!-- Dutch -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.nl.html">Nederlands</a> [nl]</li>
<!-- Polish -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.pl.html">polski</a> [pl]</li>
<!-- Brazilian Portuguese -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.pt-br.html">português do
Brasil</a> [pt-br]</li>
<!-- Russian -->
-<li><a
href="/philosophy/why-free.ru.html">Русский</a> [ru]</li>
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/why-free.ru.html">русский</a> [ru]</li>
<!-- Tamil -->
<li><a
href="/philosophy/why-free.ta.html">தமிழ்</a> [ta]</li>
<!-- Turkish -->