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From: |
Jeanne Rasata |
Subject: |
www/philosophy ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 21:14:04 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Jeanne Rasata <jrasata> 15/12/31 21:14:04
Modified files:
philosophy : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html
Log message:
edit to preliminary comment, added acronym (RMS-requested)
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
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 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html 31 Dec 2015 21:02:08 -0000 1.18
+++ ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html 31 Dec 2015 21:14:03 -0000 1.19
@@ -19,8 +19,12 @@
<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our mailing list
about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
-<p>This article was originally published by the Guardian with changes.
-This version restores the original version of some of the changes.</p>
+<p><em>This essay was originally published
+on <a href="http://guardian.co.uk">http://guardian.co.uk</a>, on 17
+April 2012, as “Technology Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain
+Us,” with some surprise editing. This version incorporates
+parts of that editing while restoring parts of the original
+text.</em></a>
<p>I love The Jehovah Contract, and I'd like everyone else to love it
too. I have lent it out at least six times over the years. Printed
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@
the used book stores where I have passed many an afternoon will be
history). You can't give it to a friend either, because according to
Amazon you never really owned it. Amazon requires users to sign an
-End User License Agreement which says so.</p>
+End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) which says so.</p>
<p>You can't even be sure it will still be in your machine tomorrow.
People reading 1984 in the “Kindle” had an Orwellian experience:
their
@@ -178,7 +182,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2015/12/31 21:02:08 $
+$Date: 2015/12/31 21:14:03 $
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</p>
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