www/philosophy can-you-trust.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       07/05/24 10:35:57

Modified files:
        philosophy     : can-you-trust.html 

Log message:
        Add postscript about unimportance of beneficial uses of TC.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/can-you-trust.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23

Patches:
Index: can-you-trust.html
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--- can-you-trust.html  8 May 2007 15:32:53 -0000       1.22
+++ can-you-trust.html  24 May 2007 10:35:39 -0000      1.23
@@ -182,6 +182,22 @@
 Treacherous computing is designed to impose restrictions on the users;
 it uses them.</p></li>
 
+<li>
+The supporters of treacherous computing focus their discourse on its
+<a name="beneficial">beneficial uses</a>.  What they say is often
+correct, just not important.
+<p>
+Like most hardware, treacherous computing hardware can be used for
+purposes which are not harmful.  But these uses can be implemented in
+other ways, without treacherous computing hardware.  The principal
+difference that treacherous computing makes for users is the nasty
+consequence: rigging your computer to work against you.</p>
+<p>
+What they say is true, and what I say is true.  Put them together and
+what do you get?  Treacherous computing is a plan to take away our
+freedom, while offering minor benefits to distract us from what we
+would lose.</p></li>
+
 <li>Microsoft presents palladium as a security measure, and claims that
 it will protect against viruses, but this claim is evidently false.  A
 presentation by Microsoft Research in October 2002 stated that one of
@@ -219,7 +235,6 @@
 goal we must reject.</li>
 </ol>
 
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 <hr />
 <h4>This essay is published in <a href="/doc/book13.html"><cite>Free Software,
 Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman</cite></a></h4>
@@ -263,7 +278,7 @@
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