www/philosophy proprietary.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/02/05 14:49:50

Modified files:
        philosophy     : proprietary.html 

Log message:
        Rewrite the introduction.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12

Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12
--- proprietary.html    4 Feb 2014 12:46:27 -0000       1.11
+++ proprietary.html    5 Feb 2014 14:49:49 -0000       1.12
@@ -6,16 +6,28 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
 <h2>Proprietary Software</h2>
 
-<p>Proprietary software, nonfree software, is software that doesn't
-respect users' freedom and community.  The developer or owner has
-power over its users.  That in itself is an injustice, but it often
-leads to further injustice.</p>
-
-<p>Power corrupts, so the program's owner is tempted to put malicious
-functionality into the program&mdash;that is, to make
-it <em>malware</em>.  Malware means software whose functioning
-mistreats the user.  This page gives examples of widely used
-proprietary programs that are known to be malware.</p>
+<p>Proprietary software, nonfree software, means software that doesn't
+<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">respect users' freedom and
+community</a>.  The developer or owner has power over its users.
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+Proprietary software is itself an injustice</a>, although most users
+don't recognize it as such.  The point of this page is that the one
+injustice often leads to further injustice.</p>
+
+<p>Power corrupts, so the proprietary program's developer is tempted
+to design the program to mistreat its users &mdash; that is, to make
+it <em>malware</em>.  (Malware means software whose functioning
+mistreats the user.)  Of course, the developer usually does not do
+this out of malice, but rather to put the users at a disadvantage.
+That does not make it any less nasty or more legitimate.</p>
+
+<p>Yielding to that temptation has become ever more frequent; nowadays
+it is standard practice.  Modern proprietary software is software for
+suckers!</p>
+
+<p>Here are examples of widely used
+proprietary programs that are known to be malware.
+They are organized by the type of malicious functionality.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-back-doors.html">Proprietary back
@@ -98,7 +110,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
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-$Date: 2014/02/04 12:46:27 $
+$Date: 2014/02/05 14:49:49 $
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 </p>
 </div>