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Yavor Doganov |
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www/philosophy philosophy.html |
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Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:14:42 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 07/03/02 13:14:42
Modified files:
philosophy : philosophy.html
Log message:
* Added a link to QuestionCopyright.org, thanks Guy Johnston
<address@hidden> (Closes: RT #323826).
* Fixed a few trivial typos and did some dquo; judo.
* Added a forgotten closing tag for standards compliance.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/philosophy.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.224&r2=1.225
Patches:
Index: philosophy.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/philosophy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.224
retrieving revision 1.225
diff -u -b -r1.224 -r1.225
--- philosophy.html 22 Feb 2007 18:38:10 -0000 1.224
+++ philosophy.html 2 Mar 2007 13:13:21 -0000 1.225
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
<li><a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free and
Non-Free Software</a></li>
<li><a href="/software/reliability.html">Free Software is More
Reliable!</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">Is `Open
- Source' Synonymous With `Free Software'?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">Is “Open
+ Source” Synonymous With “Free Software”?</a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html">Linux, GNU, and
Freedom</a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/gnutella.html"
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
<ul>
<li><a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">
- Don't Let 'Intellectual Property' Twist Your Ethos</a>,
+ Don't Let “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</a>,
by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/sun-in-night-time.html">The Curious Incident of Sun
in the Night-Time</a>,
@@ -135,19 +135,20 @@
by Dr. Richard M. Stallman, answers a few common questions about DRM.</li>
<li><a href="http://counterpunch.org/baker08192004.html";>
- Why We Need "Free Software" Voting Machines</a></li>
+ Why We Need “Free Software” Voting Machines</a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the Information
Society</a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/w3c-patent.html">FSF's Position on W3
- Consortium "Royalty-Free" Patent Policy</a> rewritten</li>
+ Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy</a> rewritten</li>
<li>Comments from Richard Stallman on <a href="/philosophy/ipjustice.html">
the ICLC's rejection of the IP Enforcement Directive</a></li>
<li>Richard Stallman has written <a href="/philosophy/boldrin-levine.html">
- a review of Boldrin and Levine's "The case against intellectual
property."</a></li>
+ a review of Boldrin and Levine's “The case against
+ intellectual property.”</a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/sco/sco-gnu-linux.html">SCO, GNU, and Linux</a>,
by Richard Stallman, discusses how SCO's lawsuit against IBM pertains to
the
@@ -175,13 +176,14 @@
<li><a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">Can you trust your
computer?</a>, a work by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
- Stallman</a> about the so-called "trusted computing" initiatives.</li>
+ Stallman</a> about the so-called “trusted computing”
+ initiatives.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html">FSF's Brief Amicus Curiae
in the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.xhtml">Science must `push
copyright
- aside'</a>, another work of <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.xhtml">Science must
“push copyright
+ aside”</a>, another work of <a
href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
Stallman</a> that appeared in the
<a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html";>
Nature Webdebates</a> in 2001, explains how copyright is impeding
progress in
@@ -207,9 +209,9 @@
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not prohibit them from publishing
their research.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/";>
- EFF "Intellectual Property: MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)
DVD Cases"
- Archive</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/";>EFF
+ “Intellectual Property: MPAA (Motion Picture
+ Association of America) DVD Cases” Archive</a></li>
<!-- This link is broken
<li><a href="http://www.humaninfo.org/copyrigh.htm";>Examples of
Excellent Copyright Policies</a></li>
@@ -273,12 +275,13 @@
An English translation</a> of the famous decision of the District Court
of Munich (Germany) regarding the
enforceability and validity of the GPL. The translation was done by the
Oxford Internet Institute.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml">Did You Say "Intellectual Property"?
- It's a Seductive Mirage</a>. An essay on the true meaning of the phrase
"Intellectual Property", by Richard M. Stallman</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say “Intellectual
Property”?
+ It's a Seductive Mirage</a>. An essay on the true meaning of
+ the phrase “Intellectual Property”, by Richard M.
Stallman</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/second-sight.html">Free Software and
(e-)Government</a> - an article from The Guardian, by Richard
- Stallman (originally published under the title "Second Sight").</li>
+ Stallman (originally published under the title “Second
Sight”).</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.virtueel.com/upd/ins_opinions.rxml?cust=212&id=967";>
@@ -303,11 +306,11 @@
<ul>
<li><a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Confusing Words</a>
which You Might Want to Avoid</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">"Open Source
Software" or "Free Software"</a>?</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why "Open
-Source" misses the point of Free Software</a>
- <li>Richard Stallman wrote
- <a href="/philosophy/drdobbs-letter.html">letter to the editor</a> of
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">“Open
+ Source Software” or “Free Software”</a>?</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
+ “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>Richard Stallman wrote <a href="/philosophy/drdobbs-letter.html">letter
to the editor</a> of
Dr. Dobb's Journal in June which further explains the distinction
between the Free Software and Open Source movements.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free and
@@ -357,8 +360,8 @@
of the Internet Society</li>
<li><a
href="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>
+ Richard Stallman interviewed</a> by Justin Podur on “Free
+ Software as a Social Movement”, 01 December 2005</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6222";>Richard Stallman
interviewed</a>
by Federico Biancuzzi for ONLamp.com, 22 September 2005</li>
@@ -373,7 +376,7 @@
interview</a> with Timothy R. Butler, 31 March 2005.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/nit-india.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a>at
+ <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> at
National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, 17 February 2004.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>'s <a
href="http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/impression/20041208104640";>interview
with NetEconomie.com</a> (In French) 10 December 2004</li>
@@ -398,7 +401,7 @@
at Harvard on 23 February, 2004.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/wsis-2003.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a>at WSIS, 16 July
2003.</li>
+ <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> at WSIS, 16 July
2003.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/rieti.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
<a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a>, 21 April
2003.</li>
@@ -489,7 +492,7 @@
<li><a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.en.html">English translation of a
speech</a>
that Georg Greve
- gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster "CLOWN" in Germany
+ gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster “CLOWN” in Germany
(<a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.de.html">German original</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/gnu/byte-interview.html">BYTE Interview</a>
in July 1986 with
@@ -500,7 +503,7 @@
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a>
gave in 1986 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden</li>
-<li>An<a href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais";> index of French
recordings at audio-video.gnu.org</a> is also available.</li>
+<li>An <a href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais";>index of French
recordings at audio-video.gnu.org</a> is also available.</li>
</ul>
@@ -518,11 +521,15 @@
related issues.</p>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://questioncopyright.org";>QuestionCopyright.org</a>
+ is a web site about the history and effects of copyright, dedicated
+ to raise awareness of the harmful consequences of today's copyright
+ system.</li>
<li>
<a
href="http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601781";>
How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In</a> by Cory Doctorow.
<b>Note</b> : We think it is a mistake to use the enemy's
favorable-sounding propaganda terms such as
- "trusted computing" to describe a malicious plan.
+ “trusted computing” to describe a malicious plan.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/194701/";>A couple of lessons on the
hazards of proprietary software</a>,
@@ -542,7 +549,7 @@
magnifying glass</a>. In this article the author uses arguments
based on lambda calculus to show why software cannot be patented.</li>
<li><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/204641/";>Free gadgets need free
- software</a>, an editorial reporting a firmware "upgrade" that
+ software</a>, an editorial reporting a firmware “upgrade”
that
removes the ability to record radio broadcasts.</li>
<li>Lakhani and Wolf's <a
href="http://freesoftware.mit.edu/papers/lakhaniwolf.pdf";>paper on the
motivation of free software developers</a> says that a considerable fraction
are motivated by the view that software should be free. This was despite the
fact that they surveyed the developers on SourceForge, a site that does not
support the view that this is an ethical issue.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11663";>Groklaw
@@ -576,8 +583,8 @@
social alternatives only by what goods are available for what price,
assuming that you the citizen are a mere consumer and place no value
on your freedom in itself. It also uses the misleading term
-<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">"intellectual
-property"</a>, which is misleading because it lumps copyrights and
+<a
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">“intellectual
+property”</a>, which is misleading because it lumps copyrights and
patents together. The article also lumps them together, which it can
get away with because it ignores the (different) social issues that
copyrights and patents raise.
@@ -589,37 +596,37 @@
</p></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sincerechoice.org/";>Sincere Choice</a> explains
- the dishonesty of Microsoft's "Software Choice" program.
+ the dishonesty of Microsoft's “Software Choice” program.
<p>
We don't completely agree with Sincere Choice, since it says that
proprietary software is just as legitimate as free software. We firmly
disagree: <em>software should be free</em>. However, if you know people
- who have been taken in by "Software Choice", please refer them to the
+ who have been taken in by “Software Choice” please refer them to
the
Sincere Choice site.</p></li>
<li>Two articles by Duncan Campbell describe how NSA backdoors were
hidden in proprietary software programs:
- <a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/2898/1.html";>"Only NSA can
- listen, so that's OK"</a> and <a
- href="http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html";>"How NSA
- access was built into Windows"</a>. Both are clear demonstrations of how
+ <a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/2898/1.html";>“Only
NSA can
+ listen, so that's OK”</a> and <a
+ href="http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html";>“How NSA
+ access was built into Windows”</a>. Both are clear demonstrations of
how
users of proprietary software can often be unaware of what they are
actually running.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm";>"Copyright
- C.P.U."</a> by Harry Hillman Chartrand is a good summary of the history of
+ <li><a
href="http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm";>“Copyright
+ C.P.U.”</a> by Harry Hillman Chartrand is a good summary of the
history of
copyright.</li>
<li>Malla Pollack's
- <a
href="http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/progress.html";>"What
- is Congress Supposed to Promote?"</a> explains how the United States'
+ <a
href="http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/progress.html";>“What
+ is Congress Supposed to Promote?”</a> explains how the United States'
government's recent tendencies to provide maximum control to copyright
holders defies the justification for establishment of copyright set out
in the constitution.</li>
<li>Mikael Pawlo's
- <a
href="http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/08/153204.shtml?tid=19";>"Software
- lemon law with bitter taste"</a> explains how a "lemon law" for software
+ <a
href="http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/08/153204.shtml?tid=19";>“Software
+ lemon law with bitter taste”</a> explains how a “lemon
law” for software
could threaten free software development.</li>
<li>Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez wrote a
@@ -670,8 +677,8 @@
<li><a
href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2770541,00.html";>Technology
and the corruption of copyright</a>, by Joshua S. Bauchner</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/nnetanel/Netanel.pdf";>"Locating
- Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein,"</a>, by Neil W. Netanel,
+ <li><a
href="http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/nnetanel/Netanel.pdf";>“Locating
+ Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein,”</a>, by Neil W. Netanel,
argues that the United States court system has been wrong in its dated
assumption that fair use eliminates the conflict between copyright law
and the First Amendment.</li>
@@ -729,7 +736,7 @@
<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">piracy</a> since
it implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate.</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html";>A
- primer on the ethics of ``Intellectual property''</a>, by Ram
Samudrala.</li>
+ primer on the ethics of “Intellectual property”</a>, by Ram
Samudrala.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/self-interest.html">Is Self-Interest Sufficient to
Organize an Free Economy?</a> by Loyd Fueston.</li>
<li><a href="http://ethology.intercult.su.se/freescience/";>The Free
@@ -770,7 +777,7 @@
and Rebirth of Plagiarism</a> by Rodney Riegle.
(We don't entirely agree with this article--we think there is no
harm in asking people to make some extra effort
- to write ``footnotes'' to give credit.)</li>
+ to write “footnotes” to give credit.)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.savetheweb.org";>Save the Web</a> is a website
devoted to protecting Internet users rights in Europe.</li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/economics_frank/frank.html">Does Studying
@@ -796,7 +803,7 @@
href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA158872.html";>The
Real Purpose of Copyright</a> by John N. Berry III.</li>
<li><a id="Copyrightfire" href="/philosophy/fire.html">Copyrighting Fire!
(Humor)</a> by Ian Clarke.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/infirmation_technology.html";
id="INFOTECH">The Future Brings "Infirmation Technology"</a> by
+ <li><a
href="http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/infirmation_technology.html";
id="INFOTECH">The Future Brings “Infirmation Technology”</a> by
Andy Oram.</li>
<!-- Re: Free Protocols Foundation - it's a maintainance nightmare -->
<!-- to have full descriptions in more then one place. -len -->
@@ -892,7 +899,7 @@
<li><a href="/gnu/manifesto.html#translations">Translations of the
GNU Manifesto</a></li>
<li><a href="/philosophy/fs-translations.html">Translations
- of the term ``free software''</a></li>
+ of the term “free software”</a></li>
<li><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html#translations">Translations of the
GNU GPL</a></li>
<li><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html#translationsLGPL">Translations of the
@@ -917,7 +924,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006 <br />
+Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007 <br />
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301, USA
<br />
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
@@ -927,7 +934,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/02/22 18:38:10 $ $Author: yavor $
+$Date: 2007/03/02 13:13:21 $ $Author: yavor $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/philosophy philosophy.html,
Yavor Doganov <=
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Karl Berry, 2007/03/03
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Karl Berry, 2007/03/03
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Yavor Doganov, 2007/03/24
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Yavor Doganov, 2007/03/24
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, 2007/03/28
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, 2007/03/28
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, 2007/03/28
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, 2007/03/29
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, 2007/03/29
- www/philosophy philosophy.html, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, 2007/03/29