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Subject: www/philosophy microsoft-new-monopoly.ca.html m...
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:59:09 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     GNUN <gnun>     15/12/15 18:59:09

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                         microsoft-new-monopoly.nl.html 
        philosophy/po  : microsoft-new-monopoly.nl-diff.html 
Added files:
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CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.ca.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.nl.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.nl-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.ca-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

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@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.en.html" 
-->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.ca.po">
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.ca.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.ca-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2015-10-16" --><!--#set 
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.en.html" -->
 
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@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
 
 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.ca.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.ca.html" -->
 <h2>El nou monopoli de Microsoft</h2>
 
 <p>per <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard 
Stallman</strong></a></p>
@@ -211,7 +217,7 @@
 <p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
 Updated:
 
-$Date: 2015/05/23 06:10:57 $
+$Date: 2015/12/15 18:59:06 $
 
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>

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+++ microsoft-new-monopoly.nl.html      15 Dec 2015 18:59:07 -0000      1.15
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.en.html" 
-->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.nl.po">
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.nl.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.nl-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2015-10-16" --><!--#set 
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.en.html" -->
 
 <!--#include virtual="/server/header.nl.html" -->
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@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
 
 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.nl.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.nl.html" -->
 <h2>Het Nieuwe Monopolie van Microsoft</h2>
 
 <p>door <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard
@@ -211,7 +217,7 @@
 <p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
 Bijgewerkt:
 
-$Date: 2015/02/09 21:02:59 $
+$Date: 2015/12/15 18:59:07 $
 
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>

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1.3
@@ -11,28 +11,25 @@
 </style></head>
 <body><pre>
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --&gt;
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 
--&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --&gt;
 &lt;title&gt;Microsoft's New Monopoly
-- GNU Project - Free Software <span class="removed"><del><strong>Foundation 
(FSF)&lt;/title&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Foundation&lt;/title&gt;</em></ins></span>
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation&lt;/title&gt;
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.translist" 
--&gt;
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --&gt;
 &lt;h2&gt;Microsoft's New Monopoly&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.stallman.org/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;i&gt;This</strong></del></span>
-
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;This</em></ins></span> article was written in July 2005.  Microsoft 
adopted a
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This article was written in July 2005.  Microsoft adopted a
 different policy in 2006, so the specific policies described below and
 the specific criticisms of them are only of historical significance.
 The overall problem remains, however:
-&lt;a 
href="http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#Patent_rights_to_implement_the_Ecma_376_specification_have_not_been_granted"&gt;
+&lt;a <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#Patent_rights_to_implement_the_Ecma_376_specification_have_not_been_granted"&gt;</strong></del></span>
 <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120831070708/http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#Patent_rights_to_implement_the_Ecma_376_specification_have_not_been_granted"&gt;</em></ins></span>
 Microsoft's cunningly worded new policy does not give anyone clear
 permission to implement OOXML.&lt;/a&gt;
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;/i&gt;</strong></del></span>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;European legislators who endorse software patents frequently claim
 that those wouldn't affect free software (or &ldquo;open
@@ -150,25 +147,16 @@
 to participate in the campaign against software patents in Europe.
 &lt;/p&gt;
 
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;/div&gt;</strong></del></span>
-
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- for id="content", starts 
in the include above --&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --&gt;
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-<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;
-Please</strong></del></span>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;div class="unprintable"&gt;
+&lt;div class="unprintable"&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Please</em></ins></span> send <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>general</em></ins></span> FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
-&lt;a <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;em&gt;address@hidden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.</strong></del></span>
 <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.</em></ins></span>
+&lt;p&gt;Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+&lt;a href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.
 There are also &lt;a href="/contact/"&gt;other ways to contact&lt;/a&gt;
-the FSF.
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;br /&gt;
-Please send broken</strong></del></span>  <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Broken</em></ins></span> links and other corrections 
or suggestions <span class="inserted"><ins><em>can be sent</em></ins></span>
-to &lt;a <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;em&gt;address@hidden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+the FSF.  Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to &lt;a 
href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
         replace it with the translation of these two:
@@ -182,65 +170,45 @@
         &lt;p&gt;For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
         our web pages, see &lt;a
         href="/server/standards/README.translations.html"&gt;Translations
-        README&lt;/a&gt;. --&gt;</em></ins></span>
+        README&lt;/a&gt;. --&gt;
 Please see the &lt;a
 href="/server/standards/README.translations.html"&gt;Translations
 README&lt;/a&gt; for information on coordinating and submitting translations
-of this <span class="removed"><del><strong>article.
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;
-Copyright &copy; 2005, 2009 Richard Stallman
-&lt;br /&gt;
-This page is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/"&gt;Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License&lt;/a&gt;.
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Updated:
-&lt;!-- timestamp start --&gt;
-$Date: 2014/04/12 13:59:10 $
-&lt;!-- timestamp end --&gt;
-&lt;/p&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>article.&lt;/p&gt;</em></ins></span>
+of this article.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 
-&lt;!-- <span class="removed"><del><strong>All</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Regarding copyright, in general, 
standalone</em></ins></span> pages <span class="inserted"><ins><em>(as opposed 
to
-     files generated as part of manuals)</em></ins></span> on the GNU web 
server should <span class="removed"><del><strong>have the section about    
--&gt;
-&lt;!-- verbatim copying.</strong></del></span>
-     <span class="inserted"><ins><em>be under CC BY-ND 3.0 
US.</em></ins></span>  Please do NOT <span class="inserted"><ins><em>change 
or</em></ins></span> remove this
-     without talking     <span class="removed"><del><strong>--&gt;
-&lt;!--</strong></del></span> with the webmasters <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>or licensing team</em></ins></span> first. <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>--&gt; 
-&lt;!--</strong></del></span>
+&lt;!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+     files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+     be under CC BY-ND <span class="removed"><del><strong>3.0 
US.</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>4.0.</em></ins></span>  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
-     <span class="inserted"><ins><em>document.  For web pages, it is ok to 
list just the latest year the</em></ins></span>
-     document <span class="removed"><del><strong>--&gt;
-&lt;!-- and</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>was 
modified, or published.
+     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,</em></ins></span> that <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>it</strong></del></span> is <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>like this</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>ok too.
-     Either</em></ins></span> "2001, <span class="removed"><del><strong>2002" 
not this "2001-2002."</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+     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.</em></ins></span> --&gt;
+     Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --&gt;
 
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2005, 2009 Richard 
Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2005, <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>2009</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>2009, 2015</em></ins></span> Richard 
Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;This page is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/"&gt;Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+<span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/"&gt;Creative</strong></del></span>
+<span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"&gt;Creative</em></ins></span>
+Commons <span class="removed"><del><strong>Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United 
States</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 
International</em></ins></span> License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --&gt;
 
 &lt;p class="unprintable"&gt;Updated:
 &lt;!-- timestamp start --&gt;
-$Date: 2014/04/12 13:59:10 $
+$Date: 2015/12/15 18:59:08 $
 &lt;!-- timestamp end --&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/div&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;/div&gt;
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
+<!-- Generated by GNUN -->
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html-diff</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+span.removed { background-color: #f22; color: #000; }
+span.inserted { background-color: #2f2; color: #000; }
+</style></head>
+<body><pre>
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --&gt;
+&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --&gt;
+&lt;title&gt;Microsoft's New Monopoly
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation&lt;/title&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft-new-monopoly.translist" 
--&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --&gt;
+&lt;h2&gt;Microsoft's New Monopoly&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.stallman.org/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This article was written in July 2005.  Microsoft adopted a
+different policy in 2006, so the specific policies described below and
+the specific criticisms of them are only of historical significance.
+The overall problem remains, however:
+&lt;a <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#Patent_rights_to_implement_the_Ecma_376_specification_have_not_been_granted"&gt;</strong></del></span>
 <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120831070708/http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#Patent_rights_to_implement_the_Ecma_376_specification_have_not_been_granted"&gt;</em></ins></span>
+Microsoft's cunningly worded new policy does not give anyone clear
+permission to implement OOXML.&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;European legislators who endorse software patents frequently claim
+that those wouldn't affect free software (or &ldquo;open
+source&rdquo;).  Microsoft's lawyers are determined to prove they are
+mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Leaked internal documents in 1998 said that Microsoft considered
+the free software GNU/Linux operating system (referred to therein as
+&ldquo;Linux&rdquo;) as the principal competitor to Windows, and spoke
+of using patents and secret file formats to hold us back.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because Microsoft has so much market power, it can often impose
+new standards at will. It need only patent some minor idea, design
+a file format, programming language, or communication protocol
+based on it, and then pressure users to adopt it. Then we in the
+free software community will be forbidden to provide software that
+does what these users want; they will be locked in to Microsoft,
+and we will be locked out from serving them.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Previously Microsoft tried to get its patented scheme for
+spam blocking adopted as an Internet standard, so as to exclude free
+software from handling email. The standards committee in charge
+rejected the proposal, but Microsoft said it would try to convince
+large &lt;abbr title="Internet service provider"&gt;ISP&lt;/abbr&gt;s to use 
the
+scheme anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Now Microsoft is planning to try something similar for Word
+files.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Several years ago, Microsoft abandoned its documented format for
+saving documents, and switched to a new format which was secret.
+However, the developers of free software word processors such as
+AbiWord and OpenOffice.org experimented assiduously for years to
+figure out the format, and now those programs can read most Word
+files. But Microsoft isn't licked yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The next version of Microsoft Word will use formats that involve a
+technique that Microsoft claims to hold a patent on. Microsoft offers
+a royalty-free patent license for certain limited purposes, but it is
+so limited that it does not allow free software. You can see the
+license here: &lt;a 
href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpspatentlic.mspx"&gt;
+http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpspatentlic.mspx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Free software is defined as software that respects four
+fundamental freedoms: (0) freedom to run the software as you wish,
+(1) freedom to study the source code and modify it to do what you
+wish, (2) freedom to make and redistribute copies, and (3) freedom
+to publish modified versions. Only programmers can directly
+exercise freedoms 1 and 3, but all users can exercise freedoms 0
+and 2, and all users benefit from the modifications that
+programmers write and publish.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Distributing an application under Microsoft's patent license
+imposes license terms that prohibit most possible modifications of the
+software. Lacking freedom 3, the freedom to publish modified versions,
+it would not be free software. (I think it could not be &ldquo;open
+source&rdquo; software either, since that definition is similar; but
+it is not identical, and I cannot speak for the advocates of open
+source.)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Microsoft license also requires inclusion of a specific
+statement. That requirement would not in itself prevent the program
+from being free: it is normal for free software to carry license
+notices that cannot be changed, and this statement could be included
+in one of them. The statement is biased and confusing, since it uses
+the term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo;; fortunately,
+one is not required to endorse the statement as true or even meaningful, only 
to
+include it. The software developer could cancel its misleading effect
+with a disclaimer like this: &ldquo;The following misleading statement
+has been imposed on us by Microsoft; please be advised that it is
+propaganda. See &lt;a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html"&gt;
+http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html&lt;/a&gt; for more
+explanation.&rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;However, the requirement to include a fixed piece of text is
+actually quite cunning, because anyone who does so has explicitly
+accepted and applied the restrictions of the Microsoft patent
+license. The resulting program is clearly not free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Some free software licenses, such as the most popular GNU General
+Public License (GNU GPL), forbid publication of a modified version if it isn't
+free software in the same way. (We call that the &ldquo;liberty or
+death&rdquo; clause, since it ensures the program will remain free or
+die.) To apply Microsoft's license to a program under the GNU GPL
+would violate the program's license; it would be illegal. Many other
+free software licenses permit nonfree modified versions. It wouldn't
+be illegal to modify such a program and publish the modified version
+under Microsoft's patent license. But that modified version, with its
+modified license, wouldn't be free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Microsoft's patent covering the new Word format is a US patent.
+It doesn't restrict anyone in Europe; Europeans are free to make
+and use software that can read this format. Europeans that develop
+or use software currently enjoy an advantage over Americans:
+Americans can be sued for patent infringement for their software
+activities in the US, but the Europeans cannot be sued for their
+activities in Europe. Europeans can already get US software patents
+and sue Americans, but Americans cannot get European software
+patents if Europe doesn't allow them.
+&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;All that will change if the European Parliament authorizes
+software patents. Microsoft will be one of thousands of foreign
+software patent holders that will bring their patents over to
+Europe to sue the software developers and computer users there. Of
+the 50,000-odd putatively invalid software patents issued by the
+European Patent Office, around 80 percent do not belong to Europeans. The
+European Parliament should vote to keep these patents invalid, and
+keep Europeans safe.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;
+[2009 note]: the EU directive to allow software patents was
+rejected, but the European Patent Office has continued issuing them
+and some countries treat them as valid.
+See &lt;a href="http://ffii.org"&gt; ffii.org&lt;/a&gt; for more information 
and
+to participate in the campaign against software patents in Europe.
+&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --&gt;
+&lt;div id="footer"&gt;
+&lt;div class="unprintable"&gt;
+
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