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[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/01/28 02:44:18

Modified files:
        philosophy     : essays-and-articles.html latest-articles.html 
        server/gnun    : gnun.mk 
Added files:
        philosophy     : upgrade-windows.html 

Log message:
        Add 'What Is the Right Way to Upgrade an Installation of Windows?'

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.104&r2=1.105
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/latest-articles.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.60&r2=1.61
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/upgrade-windows.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/gnun/gnun.mk?cvsroot=www&r1=1.489&r2=1.490

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 <h3 id="upholding">Upholding Software Freedom</h3>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><a href="/philosophy/upgrade-windows.html">What Is the Right Way to
+      Upgrade an Installation of Windows?</a>
   <li><a href="/philosophy/use-free-software.html">The Free Software 
       Community After 20 Years</a>, With great but incomplete success, 
       what now?</li>
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 software and the GNU project.</p>
 
 <ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/upgrade-windows.html">What Is the Right Way to
+  Upgrade an Installation of Windows?</a>
  <li><a href="/philosophy/phone-anonymous-payment.html">Anonymous
   Payment by Phone</a></li>
  <li><a href="/philosophy/kind-communication.html">GNU Kind
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.87 -->
+<title>What Is the Right Way to Upgrade an Installation of Windows?
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>What Is the Right Way to Upgrade an Installation of Windows?</h2>
+
+<p>by Richard Stallman</p>
+
+<p>It is commonplace in the computing field to urge users to 
&ldquo;upgrade&rdquo; to
+newer versions of Windows (and other nonfree programs) so as to get
+fixes for &ldquo;security.&rdquo; This conclusion follows from the assumption
+that these programs are honest software, designed to treat the user
+right. We do not expect that to be the case, and we know it is not
+the case for Windows. Therefore, we make a different recommendation.</p>
+
+<p>In fact, newer versions of Windows have exploits before they are
+released. They are designed with various kinds of malicious
+functionalities; see &ldquo;<a
+href="/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">Microsoft's Software is
+Malware</a>.&rdquo;<p>
+
+<p>Newer Windows versions contain added malicious functionalities; they
+give Microsoft more power over the users. That is a reason not to
+switch to a newer version. For some users, switching to a newer
+version may require rewarding Microsoft with money and even buying a
+new computer. We hardly want to encourage that!<p>
+
+<p>Therefore we decline to support Microsoft by urging users to move to
+newer versions; we do not treat the unintentional flaws of Windows as
+more important than the intentional ones.<p>
+
+<p>Our advice to those using any version of Windows is to upgrade to
+GNU/Linux.<p>
+
+<p>Supporting GNU packages on any version of Windows (or any non-GNU-like
+systems) is not part of the GNU Project's core mission. Our slogan
+is, &ldquo;It runs best on GNU/Linux.&rdquo; We cooperate with the users who 
wish
+to maintain that support, because we may as well cooperate when it is
+not difficult. We have no responsibility to continue doing so, but as
+long as it is feasible and not holding us back, we have no reason to
+stop.<p>
+
+</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
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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; 2019 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: 2019/01/28 07:44:18 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
+</body>
+</html>