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From: Jeanne Rasata
Subject: www/philosophy freedom-or-power.html
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:36:05 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Jeanne Rasata <jrasata> 10/07/05 00:36:05

Modified files:
        philosophy     : freedom-or-power.html 

Log message:
        corrected attribution of quote "code is law"

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.25&r2=1.26

Patches:
Index: freedom-or-power.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -b -r1.25 -r1.26
--- freedom-or-power.html       24 Jun 2010 14:23:07 -0000      1.25
+++ freedom-or-power.html       5 Jul 2010 00:36:00 -0000       1.26
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@
 choice (for developers only).&rdquo;</p>
 
 <p>
-If &ldquo;code is law,&rdquo; as Professor Lawrence Lessig (of Stanford Law 
School)
-has stated, then the real question we face is: who should control the
+If &ldquo;code is law,&rdquo; <a href="#f1">(1)</a> then the real question we 
face is: who should control the
 code you use&mdash;you, or an elite few?  We believe you are entitled
 to control the software you use, and giving you that control is the
 goal of free software.</p>
@@ -104,6 +103,14 @@
 we stand for, just as more and more users have come to appreciate the
 practical value of the free software we have developed.</p>
 
+<h4>Footnotes</h4>
+
+<a name="f1"></a> William J. Mitchell,
+<em>City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn </em> (Cambridge,
+Mass.: MIT Press, 1995), p. 111, as quoted by Lawrence Lessig in
+<em>Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0</em> (New York, NY:
+Basic Books, 2006), p. 5.
+
 <hr />
 <h4>This essay is published
 in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/";><cite>Free
@@ -141,7 +148,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/06/24 14:23:07 $
+$Date: 2010/07/05 00:36:00 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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