www/server/staging/proprietary/rec proprietary-...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/09/16 16:08:23

Added files:
        server/staging/proprietary/rec: proprietary-stub.html 

Log message:
        Stub for proprietary-html.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/proprietary/rec/proprietary-stub.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: proprietary-stub.html
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
+<title>Proprietary Software
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary.translist" -->
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen">
+div.companies { float: right; margin-bottom: .5em; }
+div.malfunctions { max-width: 27em; }
+<!--
+div.toc h3 {
+   text-align: left;
+   font-size: 1.2em;
+   padding: 0 .83em;
+   margin: .5em 1.5% 1em;
+}
+div.toc li { list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; }
+div.toc p { margin: 0 3%; }
+div.toc { margin-top: 1em; }
+--></style>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Proprietary Software Is Often Malware</h2>
+
+<p>Proprietary software, also called nonfree software,
+means software that doesn't
+<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">respect users' freedom and
+community</a>.  A proprietary program puts its developer or owner
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+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; 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 typically
+a way to be had.</p>
+
+<p>As of September, 2018, the files in this directory list over 350
+instances of malicious functionalities, but there are surely thousands
+more we don't know about.</p>
+
+<div class="toc">
+<div class="companies">
+<h3>Company or type of product</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-adobe.html">Adobe Malware</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html">Apple Malware</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-amazon.html">Amazon Malware</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-google.html">Google Malware</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">Microsoft Malware</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-appliances.html">Malware in 
appliances</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-cars.html">Malware in cars</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-games.html">Malware in games</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html">Malware in mobile 
devices</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-webpages.html">Malware in webpages</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="malfunctions">
+<h3>Type&nbsp;of&nbsp;malware</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html">Back doors</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-censorship.html">Censorship</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-coverups.html">Coverups</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-deception.html">Deception</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">Digital restrictions
+    management</a>&nbsp;(1)</li>
+ <li><a 
href="/proprietary/proprietary-incompatibility.html">Incompatibility</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html">Insecurity</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-interference.html">Interference</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">Jails</a>&nbsp;(2)</li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html">Sabotage</a></li>
+ <li><a 
href="/proprietary/proprietary-subscriptions.html">Subscriptions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html">Surveillance</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html">Tethers</a>&nbsp;(3)</li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.html">Tyrants</a>&nbsp;(4)</li>
+ <li><a href="/proprietary/potential-malware.html">Potential Malware</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<p>(1) Digital restrictions management, or &ldquo;DRM&rdquo;: functionalities
+designed to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.<br />
+   (2) Jails: systems that impose censorship on application programs.<br />
+   (3) Tethers: functionalities that require permanent (or very frequent)
+connection to a server.<br />
+   (4) Tyrants: systems that reject any operating system not
+&ldquo;authorized&rdquo; by the manufacturer.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Users of proprietary software are defenseless against these forms
+of mistreatment.  The way to avoid them is by insisting on
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
+(freedom-respecting) software</a>.  Since free software is controlled
+by its users, they have a pretty good defense against malicious
+software functionality.</p>
+
+
+<h3>Latest additions (unsorted)</h3>
+<!-- INSERT latest.list -->
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.  Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+        replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+        We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+        translations.  However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+        Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+        to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+        &lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.</p>
+
+        <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+        our web pages, see <a
+        href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+        README</a>. -->
+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- 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 4.0.  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
+     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, that is ok too.
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+     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. -->
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Free Software 
Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2018/09/16 20:08:23 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>