www/philosophy proprietary-sabotage.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/04/11 16:51:01

Modified files:
        philosophy     : proprietary-sabotage.html 

Log message:
        Mention cut-off of support for Windows XP and explain why it is wrong.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary-sabotage.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.15&r2=1.16

Patches:
Index: proprietary-sabotage.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary-sabotage.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- proprietary-sabotage.html   14 Mar 2014 04:05:10 -0000      1.15
+++ proprietary-sabotage.html   11 Apr 2014 16:51:01 -0000      1.16
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@
 </li>
 
 <li>
+<p><a 
href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/04/windows-xp-end-of-an-era-end-of-an-error/index.htm";>
+Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big
+users that pay exorbitantly.</a></p>
+
+<p>I think a person or company has the right to cease to work on a
+particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having
+made the users dependent on Microsoft, so they are not free to ask
+someone else to work on the program for them.
+</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
 <p><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security";>
 The NSA has put back doors into nonfree encryption software.</a>
 We don't know which ones they are, but we can be sure they include
@@ -117,7 +129,7 @@
 
 <p></p><p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/03/14 04:05:10 $
+$Date: 2014/04/11 16:51:01 $
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 </p>
 </div>