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From: |
Pavel Kharitonov |
Subject: |
www/philosophy keep-control-of-your-computing.html |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:33:07 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev> 12/07/14 05:33:07
Modified files:
philosophy : keep-control-of-your-computing.html
Log message:
Update boilerplate texts.
Use “ and ” for quotes; remove spaces around —.
s/Javascript/JavaScript/.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computing.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.9&r2=1.10
Patches:
Index: keep-control-of-your-computing.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computing.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -b -r1.9 -r1.10
--- keep-control-of-your-computing.html 10 Jun 2012 08:06:13 -0000 1.9
+++ keep-control-of-your-computing.html 14 Jul 2012 05:32:50 -0000 1.10
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.57 -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.69 -->
<title>Keep control of your computing, so it doesn't control you!
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
to develop an operating system and applications that would be entirely
free (libre, freie), so that the users would have control over them.
I gave this system the name GNU. (You have probably heard people call
-it "Linux", but that's an error.) People who switch to this system,
+it “Linux”, but that's an error.) People who switch to this system,
and insist on using only free software, are in a position to control
their computing. We have liberated only a small part of cyberspace,
as yet, but that is a foothold for freedom.</p>
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@
that site too, and it recorded permanently that this user had visited
certain pages.</p>
-<p>Javascript created a further problem. Initially used for harmless
+<p>JavaScript created a further problem. Initially used for harmless
things such as unusual-looking menus, its capabilities have been
extended to the point where it can do nontrivial computing. Services
-such as Google Docs install large Javascript programs into the user's
+such as Google Docs install large JavaScript programs into the user's
browser. Even though they run in your computer, you have no control
over what they do there.</p>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
its merchandise, to be sold to other businesses. If the company is in
the US, or is a subsidiary of a US company, the FBI can collect this
data at whim without even a court order under an un-American US law,
-named in purest blackwhiting the "Patriot Act".</p>
+named in purest blackwhiting the “Patriot Act”.</p>
<p>Services also offer to operate on the users data. In effect, this
means that users do their computing on the servers, and the servers
@@ -80,15 +80,15 @@
<p>There is a systematic marketing campaign to drive users to entrusting
their computing and their data to companies they have absolutely no
-reason to trust. Its buzzword is "cloud computing", a term used for
+reason to trust. Its buzzword is “cloud computing”, a term used for
so many different computing structures that its only real meaning is,
-"Do it without thinking about what you're doing".</p>
+“Do it without thinking about what you're doing”.</p>
<p>There is even a product, Google ChromeOS, designed so that it can only
store data remotely, and the user must do her computing remotely.
Ironically, it is free software, a version of GNU/Linux. Users will
have access to the source code, and could change it so as to support
-local computing and local data storage — if the machine has enough
+local computing and local data storage—if the machine has enough
memory to store it, and if it permits users to install their own
versions of the software. If Android phones are any guide, most
ChromeOS devices will be designed to prevent users from doing that.</p>
@@ -98,11 +98,22 @@
does mean that you'll have to swim against the current to have them.</p>
<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
- all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about
- verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking
- with the webmasters first.
- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document
- and that it is like this: "2001, 2002", not this: "2001-2002". -->
+ pages on the GNU web server should be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US.
+ Please do NOT change or remove this without talking
+ with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document.
+ For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the document
+ was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
<div id="footer">
@@ -110,11 +121,24 @@
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
<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"><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:address@hidden">
+ <address@hidden></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ our web pages, see <a
+ href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a>. -->
-<p>Please see the <a
+Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
of this article.</p>
@@ -127,7 +151,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/06/10 08:06:13 $
+$Date: 2012/07/14 05:32:50 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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