www/philosophy ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/08/05 02:38:55

Modified files:
        philosophy     : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html 

Log message:
        Minor cleanups.

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

Patches:
Index: ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html   11 May 2014 23:17:00 -0000      1.15
+++ ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html   5 Aug 2014 02:38:55 -0000       1.16
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
 
 <p>I couldn't do that with most commercial e-books. It's &ldquo;not 
allowed&rdquo;.
 And if I tried to disobey, the software in e-readers has malicious
-features called Digital Restrictions Management or DRM to restrict reading,
-so it simply won't work. The e-books are encrypted so only that
-malicious software can display them.</p>
+features called Digital Restrictions Management (DRM, for short) to restrict 
reading,
+so it simply won't work. The e-books are encrypted so that only
+proprietary software with malicious functionality can display them.</p>
 
 <p>Many other habits that we readers are accustomed to are &ldquo;not
 allowed&rdquo; for e-books. With the Amazon &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; (for which <a 
href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">&ldquo;Swindle&rdquo;</a>
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">Libre or Free</a>)
 or the program controls its users (non-Libre). Amazon's e-book
 policies imitate the distribution policies of non-Libre software, but
-that's not the only relationship between the two. The <a 
href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">malicious
+that's not the only relationship between the two. The <a 
href="/philosophy/proprietary/">malicious
 software features</a> described above are imposed on users via software
 that's not Libre. If a Libre program had malicious features like
 those, some users skilled at programming would remove them, then
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/05/11 23:17:00 $
+$Date: 2014/08/05 02:38:55 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>