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From: Joakim Olsson
Subject: www/philosophy stallman-mec-india.html
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:25:11 +0000 
CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Joakim Olsson <jocke>   07/08/15 12:25:11

Modified files:
        philosophy     : stallman-mec-india.html 

Log message:
        Fixed invalid HTML.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8

Patches:
Index: stallman-mec-india.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html,v
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--- stallman-mec-india.html     7 Feb 2007 02:35:32 -0000       1.7
+++ stallman-mec-india.html     15 Aug 2007 12:24:42 -0000      1.8
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <html>
 <head>
 <title>Stallman's Speech at Model Engineering College About Software Patent 
Dangers</title>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
 <link REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
 </head>
 <body BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000" 
VLINK="#9900DD">
@@ -30,12 +31,11 @@
 </ul>
 </center>
 
-<p>
 <hr>
+  <h4><a name="introduction" id="introduction">Prof. Jyothi John,
+  Head of Computer Engineering Department introduces
+  Stallman:</a></h4>
 <p>
-
-<p><a name="introduction"><h4>Prof. Jyothi John, Head of Computer Engineering 
Department introduces Stallman:</h4>
-</p><p>
 It's my privilege and duty to welcome the most distinguished guest ever we had 
in this college.
 </p><p>
 Mr. Richard Mathew Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating 
system in 1984, the goal being to create a completely free Unix-like operating 
system. The organisation that was founded in 1985 to further this purpose is 
the Free Software Foundation. 
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@
 Stallman received the Grace Hopper award from the Association for Computing 
Machinery for 1991, in 1990 he was awarded MacArthur Foundation Fellowship - 
other recipients of this prestigious award include Noam Chomsky and Tim 
Berners-Lee. In 1996, an honorary doctorate of Technology from the Royal 
Institute, Sweden was awarded to him. In 1998, he received the Electronic 
Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, along with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he 
received the Yuri Rubinski Memorial award.
 </p><p>
 Today, Stallman will be talking about the danger of software patents. In fact 
this is one of the most important aspect of the freedom of programming because 
the aspect of software patents may make all programmers potential lawbreakers 
because unknowingly they may be violating some of the patents registered by 
some other company. 
-</p><p>
-<a name="speech"><h4>Stallman's speech:</h4>
-</p><p>
+</p>
+  <h4><a name="speech" id="speech">Stallman's speech:</a></h4>
+<p>
 After that introduction, I am sure many of you want to know about Free 
Software. But unfortunately that's not what I am supposed to speak about. In 
fact, this topic, software patents, is not very closely related to the issue of 
Free Software. Software patents are a danger that affect all programmers and 
all computer users. I found out about them of course in working on Free 
Software because they are a danger to my project as well as to every other 
software project in the world.
 </p><p>
 There is a very  unfortunate phrase that you may have heard. It is the phrase 
"intellectual property". Now, there are two things wrong with this phrase. One 
- it prejudges the most important policy question about how to treat some kind 
of ideas or practices or work. So, whatever it assumes that they are going to 
be treated as some kind of property. Now, this is a public policy decision and 
you should be able to consider various alternatives to choose the best one. 
Which means you shouldn't name the whole field, name the question with with a 
term that prejudges what kind of answer you use.
@@ -249,12 +249,13 @@
 </p><p>
 Please talk with all executives of businesses - any kind of businesses - about 
this issue. Make sure that they understand the extend of the problem they face 
and they think of going to business organisations to have them lobby against 
software patents.  
 </p><p>
-<a name="QandAs"> Now I'll answer  questions. 
+<a name="QandAs">Now I'll answer  questions.</a>
 </p><p>
 Oh, by the way any journos over here, I would recommend writing articles about 
software patents separately, from articles about free software. If you cover 
them in one article together, people may get the idea that software patents are 
only bad for the free software developers and they are okay for other software 
developers.
 </p><p>
 This is not true, if you think back of what I have said, hardly any of it 
relates to the question of whether the programs are free or not, the dangers of 
the same for all software developers. So please don't take the risk, the people 
will get confused, write separate articles. 
 </p>
+<dl>
 <dt>Q:<dd> Sir, you said that companies like IBM are harmed 10 times as much 
as they benefit?
 
 <dt>A:<dd>  No. What I said is the harm that would had happened to them is 10 
times the benefit, but this harm is purely theoretical, it doesn't occur. You 
see, they avoid it through crosslicensing. So in fact, the harm does not happen.
@@ -699,6 +700,7 @@
 <dt>Q:<dd> Why can't the Free Software foundation start its own distribution?
 
 <dt>A:<dd> Oh well, the reason is that Debian is almost what we want, and it 
seems better to be friends with Debian and try to convince them to change it a 
little rather than to say, "Well, we are not going to use it;  we are going to 
make our own thing".  And also it seems likely to be more successful too 
because, after all there are a lot of people working on Debian already. Why try 
to make an alternative to that large community. Much better to work with them 
and convince them to support our goals better. If it works, of course, and we 
have our ways to go in that.
+</dl>
 <br><br> 
 So that was the last question, I can't stay all day answering  questions, I'm 
sorry. So at this point I am going to have to call a halt and get going and go 
have lunch. So Thank you for listening.
 <br><br>
@@ -741,9 +743,8 @@
 
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/02/07 02:35:32 $ $Author: mattl $
+$Date: 2007/08/15 12:24:42 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 <hr>
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