www/proprietary proprietary.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       16/11/02 22:18:30

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary.html 

Log message:
        Improve introduction.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- proprietary.html    9 Sep 2016 08:30:00 -0000       1.12
+++ proprietary.html    2 Nov 2016 22:18:29 -0000       1.13
@@ -17,25 +17,25 @@
 <p>Proprietary software, also called nonfree software,
 means software that doesn't
 <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">respect users' freedom and
-community</a>.  This means that
+community</a>.  A proprietary program puts its developer or owner
 <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
-its developer or owner has power over its users.</a>
-This power is itself an injustice.</p>
+in a position of power over its users.</a>
+This power is in itself an injustice.</p>
 
 <p>The point of this page is that the initial injustice of proprietary
 software often leads to further injustices: malicious
 functionalities.</p>
 
-<p>Power corrupts, so the proprietary program's developer is tempted
-to design the program to mistreat its users&mdash;that is, to make
-it <em>malware</em>.  (Malware means software whose functioning
-mistreats the user.)  Of course, the developer usually does not do
-this out of malice, but rather to put the users at a disadvantage.
-That does not make it any less nasty or more legitimate.</p>
+<p>Power corrupts; the proprietary program's developer is tempted to
+design the program to mistreat its users.  (Software whose functioning
+mistreats the user is called <em>malware</em>.)  Of course, the
+developer usually does not do this out of malice, but rather to profit
+more at the users' expense.  That does not make it any less nasty or
+more legitimate.</p>
 
 <p>Yielding to that temptation has become ever more frequent; nowadays
-it is standard practice.  Modern proprietary software is software for
-suckers!</p>
+it is standard practice.  Modern proprietary software is typically
+a way to be had.</p>
 
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 <div class="companies">
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/09/09 08:30:00 $
+$Date: 2016/11/02 22:18:29 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>