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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev> 13/10/14 05:23:30
Modified files:
philosophy : rms-hack.html
Log message:
Update to boilerplate v1.75; fix typos; s/non-free/nonfree/;
consistently use m-dashes without spaces.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/rms-hack.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
Patches:
Index: rms-hack.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/rms-hack.html,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -b -r1.17 -r1.18
--- rms-hack.html 28 Feb 2013 17:09:43 -0000 1.17
+++ rms-hack.html 14 Oct 2013 05:23:30 -0000 1.18
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-
-<title>The Hacker Community and Ethics: An Interview with Richard M. Stallman
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.75 -->
+<title>The Hacker Community and Ethics
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/rms-hack.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@
technological advantages. While that maybe should be the norm, it
unfortunately is not so. The main issues seems to be one of community;
what kinds of communities different ways of using technology promote.
-Am I guessing right if I believe that you are thinking off ethical
+Am I guessing right if I believe that you are thinking of ethical
issues in terms of communities?</p>
<p>Richard M. Stallman (<b>RMS</b>): Yes. The way I reached my
@@ -72,8 +73,8 @@
“commercial”, because that pertains to the motive for the
restrictions. The same restrictions, if imposed for a different
motive, would do the same harm. What matters is the restrictions, not
-the motive. Commercial software can be free or non-free, just as
-noncommercial software can be free or non-free. It only depends on the
+the motive. Commercial software can be free or nonfree, just as
+noncommercial software can be free or nonfree. It only depends on the
license.</p>
<p>
<b>TV:</b> How would you delineate the distinction between the public
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@
<p><b>RMS:</b> Comparing free with commercial is like comparing happiness with
purple. It doesn't make sense, because they are not answers to the same
question. They are not alternatives. The meaningful comparison is
-between free and non-free software.</p>
+between free and nonfree software.</p>
<p><b>TV:</b> It seems that the distinction between “open
source” and “free software” is that the open source
@@ -97,8 +98,8 @@
<p><b>TV:</b> But isn't there a problem here; one of the utilitarian
calculations of “open source” is that it is more
-profitable — in the sense of making more money or making better
-softaware — to use an open source license than a copyleft
+profitable—in the sense of making more money or making better
+software—to use an open source license than a copyleft
license. A company like Apple or Nokia will adapt open source up to
point, precisely the point where making it more free would turn the
profitability down.</p>
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@
that the profit it creates ultimately benefits the whole society. How
would you respond to that?</p>
-<p><b>RMS:</b> That is a claim with no basis. A non-free program can
+<p><b>RMS:</b> That is a claim with no basis. A nonfree program can
only benefit those who don't value their freedom, and thus serves as a
temptation for people to give up their freedom. That is harmful to
society.</p>
@@ -131,8 +132,8 @@
making our decisions, and also the reason why societies have a notion
of punishing actions that hurt the community.</p>
-<p><b>TV:</b> Now, somebody like Torvalds — and we don't
-necessarily have to use any names here — would probably share
+<p><b>TV:</b> Now, somebody like Torvalds—and we don't
+necessarily have to use any names here—would probably share
your enthusiasm about hackerism in the sense of playful cleverness,
and would take that playful cleverness also to the area of being
clever in making money and enjoying the good life. Actually that is
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@
were a new idea that can only be hinted at. This idea is thousands of
years old. This is the basic idea of ethics.</p>
-<p><b>TV:</b> The question about hacker aesthetics — as you
+<p><b>TV:</b> The question about hacker aesthetics—as you
explained, there is no special hacker ethics, because a hacker can act
ethically or unethically and nothing in hackerism itself necessitates
ethical behaviour.</p>
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@
<p><b>TV:</b> And, furthermore, like you know, the research and university
community is also very tightly bound to the economical interests of the
-nations states and of the companies,</p>
+nations, states and of the companies.</p>
<p><b>RMS:</b> Universities ought to resist being turned to commercial
purposes, for the sake of their integrity. They have failed to resist.
@@ -288,10 +289,10 @@
because people would pay for the software, pay for the manuals, pay
for the joy of being a part of the community, and so on. I don't think
that is impossible. The same might go for certain musicians, even
-scientists and so on. But howabout a writer, a poet, even a musician
-that works in a very limited language area — say,
+scientists and so on. But how about a writer, a poet, even a musician
+that works in a very limited language area—say,
Finnish. Making free software or free music or free poetry will not be
-a viable option, beacuse the community is too small to support that
+a viable option, because the community is too small to support that
kind of activity.</p>
<p><b>RMS:</b> The current system does rather a bad job of supporting
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@
<p><b>TV:</b> How is ethical “work” best done? It seems
that you often invoke teachers like Buddha or Jesus as examples of a
-ethical way of life,</p>
+ethical way of life.</p>
<p><b>RMS:</b> I never invoke Jesus. I am not a Christian and I don't
especially admire Jesus. I admire Buddha somewhat more, but I don't
@@ -378,7 +379,7 @@
necessary to live in conformity with one's principles, or one is a
hypocrite and people can see that.</p>
-<p><b>TV:</b> If we say that the reason for ethical behaviour must be
+<p><b>TV:</b> If we say that the reason for ethical behavior must be
given in the public sphere, let's say through a social contract or
something similar, and if we at the same time notice that the
economical/commercial sphere is driven by “maximum
@@ -488,43 +489,65 @@
should there be? They are both harmless. Is there a “gap”
that I need to “bridge”?</p>
-</div>
-
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-
<div id="footer">
-<p>
-Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+
+<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 />
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-</p>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
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-<p>
-Please see the
-<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
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<p>Copyright © 2002 Richard Stallman</p>
+
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<p>Updated:
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-$Date: 2013/02/28 17:09:43 $
+$Date: 2013/10/14 05:23:30 $
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