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From: Joerg Kohne
Subject: www/philosophy copyright-versus-community.html ...
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:31:11 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Joerg Kohne <joeko>     16/03/26 15:31:11

Modified files:
        philosophy     : copyright-versus-community.html 
                         digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html 
                         ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html 
                         essays-and-articles.html 
                         free-software-for-freedom.html gnutella.html 
                         network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html 
                         new-monopoly.html right-to-read.html 
                         speeches-and-interview.html stophr3028.html 
                         third-party-ideas.html trivial-patent.html 
                         words-to-avoid.html 

Log message:
        (linc-report) Fix link.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.38&r2=1.39
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.29&r2=1.30
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.80&r2=1.81
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.58&r2=1.59
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/gnutella.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.48&r2=1.49
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/new-monopoly.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.88&r2=1.89
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/speeches-and-interview.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.72&r2=1.73
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/stophr3028.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.15&r2=1.16
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/third-party-ideas.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.58&r2=1.59
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/trivial-patent.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.28&r2=1.29
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@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@
 non-commercially redistribute exact copies.</p>
 
 <p>[2015 note: publishing scientific papers under the CC Attribution
-license (CC-BY) is widely done, in accessible journals and arxiv.org,
+license (CC-BY) is widely done, in accessible journals and arXiv.org,
 and it works well, so that is what I now recommend for scholarly
 publications.]</p>
 
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@
 thought that publishing modified versions of someone else's paper
 would cause harm; however, publishing physics and math papers under
 the Creative Commons Attribution License
-on <a href="arxiv.org">arxiv.org</a> and many libre journals seems to
+on <a href="//arxiv.org/">arXiv.org</a> and many libre journals seems to
 have no problems.  Thus, I subsequently concluded that scientific
 papers ought to be free.</li>
 <li id="footnote3">New Zealand had enacted a system of punishment
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@
 
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--- digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html   18 Aug 2015 16:21:26 -0000      1.29
+++ digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html   26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.30
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@
  href="#tex2html7"><sup>4</sup></a></dt>
 <dd>See
   <a
-  
href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/24011res20060131.html";>http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/24011res20060131.html</a>.
+  
href="https://www.aclu.org/fbi-jttf-spying";>http://www.aclu.org/fbi-jttf-spying</a>.
 
 </dd>
 <dt id="foot104">&hellip; &ldquo;terrorism.&rdquo;<a
@@ -804,8 +804,7 @@
  href="#tex2html27"><sup>15</sup></a></dt>
 <dd>See
   <a
-  
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-20-years-after-tiananmen-china.html";>
-  
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052909-20-years-after-tiananmen-china.html</a>.
+  
href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2255678/lan-wan/20-years-after-tiananmen--china-containing-dissent-online.html";>
  
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2255678/lan-wan/20-years-after-tiananmen--china-containing-dissent-online.html</a>.
 
 </dd>
 <dt id="foot113">&hellip; freedoms:<a
@@ -1054,7 +1053,7 @@
 
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--- ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html   1 Jan 2016 05:55:19 -0000       1.22
+++ ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html   26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.23
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 <p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html";>Join our mailing list 
about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p>
 </blockquote>
 
-<p><em>This essay was originally published
-on <a href="http://guardian.co.uk";>http://guardian.co.uk</a>, on 17
-April 2012, as &ldquo;Technology Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain
-Us,&rdquo; with some surprise editing.  This version incorporates
-parts of that editing while restoring parts of the original
+<p><em>This essay was originally published by The Guardian, on 17 April 2012,
+as &ldquo;<a
+href="//www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/17/sharing-ebooks-richard-stallman">Technology
+Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain Us/a>&rdquo;, with some surprise editing.  
This
+version incorporates parts of that editing while restoring parts of the 
original
 text.</em></p>
 
 <p>I love The Jehovah Contract, and I'd like everyone else to love it
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
 
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--- essays-and-articles.html    14 Dec 2015 09:02:52 -0000      1.80
+++ essays-and-articles.html    26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.81
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
   for placing a purchase order over the internet</a>, with notes by Richard
   Stallman.</li>
 
-  <li><a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
+  <li><a 
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815064858/http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
   id="SequentialIPandI">Sequential Innovation, Patents, and
   Imitation</a> is a paper that presents a mathematical model showing
   how patents can impede progress in fields like software.</li>
@@ -236,14 +236,14 @@
 
   <li><a href="/philosophy/guardian-article.html">Opposing The European
   Software Patent Directive</a>, a slightly modified version of the 
-  article originally published in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>
+  article originally published in <a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/international";>
   The Guardian</a> of London, by Richard Stallman and Nick Hill.</li>
 
-  <li><a 
href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1540984,00.html";>
+  <li><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/aug/02/comment.business";>
   Soft sell</a>. Richard Stallman's comments on the defeat of the EU 
   software patenting directive. Published in <i>The Guardian</i> in 2005.</li>
 
-  <li><a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
+  <li><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
   Patent absurdity</a>, an article by Richard M. Stallman published in
   <i>The Guardian</i> in 2005.</li>
 
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
   <li><a href="/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">Nonfree DRM'd Games on
   GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?</a> by Richard Stallman.</li>
 
-  <li> <a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/apr/06/digital-economy-bill-richard-stallman";>
+  <li> <a 
href=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/apr/06/digital-economy-bill-richard-stallman";>
   Digital economy bill: One clown giveth and the other clown taketh 
   away</a>, by Richard Stallman.</li>
 
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
   Stallman (originally published under the title &ldquo;Second
   Sight&rdquo;).</li>
 
-  <li><a 
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070806183422/http://www.insnet.org/ins_headlines.rxml?cust=212&amp;id=967";>
+  <li><a 
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060721162054/http://www.insnet.org/ins_headlines.rxml?cust=212&id=967";>
   Free Software and Sustainable Development</a> &mdash; A short
   article by Richard Stallman regarding the use of proprietary
   software in cultural development.</li>
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@
 
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diff -u -b -r1.58 -r1.59
--- free-software-for-freedom.html      18 Nov 2014 10:08:36 -0000      1.58
+++ free-software-for-freedom.html      26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.59
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 <p>
 In 1998, some of the people in the free software community began using
-the term <a href="http://www.opensource.org/";>&ldquo;open source
+the term <a href="https://opensource.org/";>&ldquo;open source
 software&rdquo;</a> instead of <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">&ldquo;free
 software&rdquo;</a> to describe what they do.  The term &ldquo;open 
source&rdquo;
 quickly became associated with a different approach, a different
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@
 
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--- gnutella.html       12 Apr 2014 12:40:08 -0000      1.48
+++ gnutella.html       26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.49
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@
 <p>
 There are a number of free software programs that implement the
 Gnutella protocol, such as <a
-href="http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/";>gtk-gnutella</a>, <a
-href="http://mutella.sourceforge.net/";>mutella</a>, and <a
-href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucleus/";>gnucleus</a>.  Please
+href="http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/en/";>Gtk-Gnutella</a>, <a
+href="http://mutella.sourceforge.net/";>Mutella</a>, and <a
+href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucleus/";>Gnucleus</a>.  Please
 note, however, that none of these programs are officially <a
 href="/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware">GNU software</a>
 either.  GNU has its own peer-to-peer networking program, <a
-href="/software/GNUnet/">GNUnet</a>, whose
+href="/software/gnunet/">GNUnet</a>, whose
 documentation includes a <a
 href="https://gnunet.org/compare";>comparison of the
 protocols</a>.</p>
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 
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--- network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html 28 Jun 2014 14:15:35 -0000      
1.17
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1.18
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@
 <p>Non-SaaSS services can mistreat their users in other ways. Issues
 about a service can include whether it misuses the data you send it,
 and whether it collects other data
-(surveillance). The <a 
href="http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/";>Franklin
+(surveillance). The <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090124084811/http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/";>Franklin
 Street Statement</a> made a stab at addressing these issues, but we
 don't have a firm position on them as yet. What's clear is that the
 issues about a service are <em>different</em> from the issues about a
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@
 
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+++ new-monopoly.html   26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.18
@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@
 Jane Q. Public
 </pre>
 <p>
-There exists a <a href="http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm";>
+There exists a <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080906221815/http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm";>
 list of senators</a> and a service to <a href="http://www.house.gov/writerep/";>
 assist you in writing</a> to representative in the U.S. Congress.</p>
 
@@ -262,7 +263,7 @@
 
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--- right-to-read.html  1 Jan 2016 05:55:21 -0000       1.88
+++ right-to-read.html  26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.89
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
      a <a href="http://www.nature.com/principles/viewTermsOfUse";>
      contract not to lend it to anyone else</a>, which the publisher can
      revoke at will.</li>
-<li><a 
href="http://www.zdnet.com/news/seybold-opens-chapter-on-digital-books/103151";>Electronic
+<li><a 
href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/seybold-opens-chapter-on-digital-books/";>Electronic
      Publishing:</a> An article about distribution of books in
      electronic form, and copyright issues affecting the right to read
      a copy.</li>
@@ -360,9 +360,9 @@
 <ul>
        <li><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Philosophy of the
        GNU Project</a></li>
-       <li><a 
href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/49358/Copy_Protection_Just_Say_No";
-               id="COPYPROCTECTION">Copy Protection: Just Say No</a>,
-               Published in Computer World.</li>
+       <li><a 
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2596679/networking/copy-protection--just-say-no.html";
+               id="copy-protection">Copy Protection: Just Say No</a>,
+               published in Computer World.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@
 
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--- speeches-and-interview.html 27 Oct 2015 09:11:35 -0000      1.72
+++ speeches-and-interview.html 26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.73
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
   in New York, New York, May 3, 2006 for the Metropolitan NY Chapter
   of the Internet Society</li>
 
-  <li><a 
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080218094340/http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&amp;ItemID=9350";>
+  <li><a 
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080218094340/http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=9350";>
       Richard Stallman interviewed</a> by Justin Podur on Free
       Software as a Social Movement, 01 December 2005</li>
 
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@
 
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--- stophr3028.html     12 Apr 2014 12:40:47 -0000      1.15
+++ stophr3028.html     26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.16
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@
 <ul>
   <li><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.03028:";>
     Information about H.R. 3028, including the Text of the bill</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm";>
+  <li><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en";>
     Information about the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy</a></li>
-  <li><a 
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000815221026/http://www.acm.org/usacm/trademark.html";>
+  <li><a 
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815221026/http://www.acm.org/usacm/trademark.html";>
        Letter from ACM, Legal Experts on Problems with H.R. 3028</a></li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
 
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--- third-party-ideas.html      27 Oct 2015 07:04:07 -0000      1.58
+++ third-party-ideas.html      26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000      1.59
@@ -105,15 +105,21 @@
 and the petition is no longer taking votes. The author
 of the petition, John Everitt, was expecting only several
 responses but instead he had thousands of participants. <a
-href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6913";>In the
+href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6913";>In the
 last available public communication about the petition</a>, he
 urged people to help <a href="http://www.fsf.org";>FSF</a> in any
 way possible.</li>
 
-  <li><a 
href="http://proposicion.org.ar/doc/gob/Conde-281102/index.html.en";>Senator 
Alberto Conde's answer</a> to CESSI regarding Bill E-135/02-03 which proposes 
use of Free Software in the public sector for the province of Buenos Aires. <a 
href="http://proposicion.org.ar/proyecto/leyes/E-135.02-03/";>The bill</a> has 
been submitted by Senator Alberto Conde himself.</li>
-  <li> Some economists argue that copyright and patents
-        <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/creation-myths";> fail to
-promote the progress</a> that they supposedly exist to promote.
+<li><a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030904102640/http://proposicion.org.ar/doc/gob/Conde-281102/index.html.en";>Senator
+Alberto Conde's answer</a> to CESSI regarding Bill E-135/02-03 which proposes
+use of Free Software in the public sector for the province of Buenos Aires. <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030204005052/http://www.proposicion.org.ar/proyecto/leyes/E-135.02-03/";>The
+bill</a> has been submitted by Senator Alberto Conde himself.</li>
+
+<li>Some economists argue that copyright and patents <a
+href="http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/creation-myths";> fail to promote
+the progress</a> that they supposedly exist to promote.
 <p>
 This article takes a narrowly economic view of its subject, measuring
 social alternatives only by what goods are available for what price,
@@ -420,7 +426,7 @@
 
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@@ -235,14 +235,13 @@
 the software field do no good either.  What software patents do is put
 software developers and users under threat.</p>
 
-<p>The patent system is supposed, intended, to promote progress, and
-those who benefit from software patents ask us to believe without
-question that they do have that effect.  But programmers' experience
-shows otherwise.  New theoretical analysis shows that this is no paradox.
-(See <a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";>
-http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf</a>.)  There is no reason
-why society should expose software developers and users to the danger
-of software patents.</p>
+<p>The patent system is supposed, intended, to promote progress, and those who
+benefit from software patents ask us to believe without question that they do
+have that effect. But programmers' experience shows otherwise. New theoretical
+analysis shows that this is no paradox. (See <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815064858/http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";>researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf</a>
+on web.archive.org.) There is no reason why society should expose software
+developers and users to the danger of software patents.</p>
 
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 <p>
 Curiously, Larry Ellison, a proprietary software developer,
-also <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188-80.html";>
+also <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/oracles-ellison-nails-cloud-computing/";>
 noted the vacuity of the term &ldquo;cloud computing.&rdquo;</a>  He
 decided to use the term anyway because, as a proprietary software
 developer, he isn't motivated by the same ideals as we are.
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 The term &ldquo;industry&rdquo; is being used as propaganda by
 advocates of software patents.  They call software development
 &ldquo;industry&rdquo; and then try to argue that this means it should
-be subject to patent
-monopolies.  <a 
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071211112325/http://eupat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/";
 title="archived version of http://eupat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/";> The
+be subject to patent monopolies.  <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071215073111/http://eupat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/";
+title="archived version of http://eupat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309/";>The
 European Parliament, rejecting software patents in 2003, voted to
 define &ldquo;industry&rdquo; as &ldquo;automated production of
 material goods.&rdquo;</a></p>
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