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From: |
Joakim Olsson |
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Subject: |
www/philosophy microsoft.html |
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Date: |
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:31:46 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Joakim Olsson <jocke> 07/03/21 15:31:46
Modified files:
philosophy : microsoft.html
Log message:
Fixed indentation.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/microsoft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
Patches:
Index: microsoft.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/microsoft.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- microsoft.html 19 Mar 2007 16:28:16 -0000 1.18
+++ microsoft.html 21 Mar 2007 15:31:41 -0000 1.19
@@ -1,288 +1,155 @@
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-to dominate fewer users than Microsoft, that is not for lack of
-trying.</p>
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-reminder that Microsoft is the natural development of a software
-industry based on <a href="/philosophy/shouldbefree.html">dividing
-users and taking away their freedom</a>. When criticizing
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-software---not from Microsoft or anyone else.</p>
-<p>In the ``Halloween documents'', released at the end of October
-1998, Microsoft executives stated an intention to use various
-methods to obstruct the development of free software: specifically,
-designing secret protocols and file formats, and patenting
-algorithms and software features.</p>
-<p>These obstructionist policies are nothing new: Microsoft, and
-many other software companies, have been doing them for years now.
-In the past, probably, their motivation was to attack each other;
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-<!-- Catalan -->
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+ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+
+ <title>Is Microsoft the Great Satan? - GNU Project - Free
+ Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
+
+ <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+ <h2>Is Microsoft the Great Satan?</h2>
+
+ <p>Many people think of Microsoft as the monster menace of
+ the software industry. There is even a campaign to <a href=
+ "http://www.vcnet.com/bms";>boycott Microsoft</a>. This
+ feeling has intensified since Microsoft expressed active
+ hostility towards free software.</p>
+
+ <p>In the free software movement, our perspective is
+ different. We see that Microsoft is doing something that is
+ bad for software users: making software <a href=
+ "categories.html#ProprietarySoftware">proprietary</a> and
+ thus denying users their rightful freedom.</p>
+
+ <p>But Microsoft is not alone in this; almost all software
+ companies do the same thing to the users. If other
+ companies manage to dominate fewer users than Microsoft,
+ that is not for lack of trying.</p>
+
+ <p>This is not meant to excuse Microsoft. Rather, it is
+ meant as a reminder that Microsoft is the natural
+ development of a software industry based on <a href=
+ "/philosophy/shouldbefree.html">dividing users and taking
+ away their freedom</a>. When criticizing Microsoft, we must
+ not exonerate the other companies that also make
+ proprietary software. At the FSF, we don't run any
+ proprietary software---not from Microsoft or anyone
+ else.</p>
+
+ <p>In the ``Halloween documents'', released at the end of
+ October 1998, Microsoft executives stated an intention to
+ use various methods to obstruct the development of free
+ software: specifically, designing secret protocols and file
+ formats, and patenting algorithms and software
+ features.</p>
+
+ <p>These obstructionist policies are nothing new:
+ Microsoft, and many other software companies, have been
+ doing them for years now. In the past, probably, their
+ motivation was to attack each other; now, it seems, we are
+ among the intended targets. But that change in motivation
+ has no practical consequence, because secret conventions
+ and software patents obstruct everyone, regardless of the
+ ``intended target''.</p>
+
+ <p>Secrecy and patents do threaten free software. They have
+ obstructed us greatly in the past, and we must expect they
+ will do so even more in the future. But this is no
+ different from what was going to happen even if Microsoft
+ had never noticed us. The only real significance of the
+ ``Halloween documents'' is that Microsoft seems to think
+ that the <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux
+ system</a> has the potential for great success.</p>
+
+ <p>Thank you, Microsoft, and please get out of the way.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+
+ <div id="footer">
+ <p>Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to <a href=
+ "mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>. There are also
+ <a href="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to contact</a>
+ the FSF.<br />
+ Please send broken links and other corrections (or
+ suggestions) to <a href=
+ "mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Please see the <a href=
+ "/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+ README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
+ translations of this article.</p>
+
+ <p>Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ 02110, USA<br />
+ Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
+ permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice
+ is preserved.</p>
+
+ <p>Updated: <!-- timestamp start -->
+ $Date: 2007/03/21 15:31:41 $ $Author: jocke $
+ <!-- timestamp end --></p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- All pages on the GNU web server should have the section about -->
+ <!-- verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking -->
+ <!-- with the webmasters first. -->
+ <!-- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document
-->
+ <!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." -->
+
+ <div id="translations">
+ <h4>Translations of this page</h4>
+ <!-- Please keep this list alphabetical, and in the original -->
+ <!-- language if possible, otherwise default to English -->
+ <!-- If you do not have it English, please comment what the -->
+ <!-- English is. If you add a new language here, please -->
+ <!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+ <!-- - in /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+ <!-- - in /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
+ <!-- one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
+ <!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias
-->
+ <!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
+ <!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus
-->
+ <!-- http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm -->
+
+ <ul class="translations-list">
+ <li><a href=
+ "/philosophy/microsoft.ca.html">Català</a></li><!-- Catalan -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+ "/philosophy/microsoft.cs.html">Česky</a></li><!-- Czech -->
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html">English</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href=
+ "/philosophy/microsoft.es.html">Español</a></li><!-- Spanish -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+
"/philosophy/microsoft.el.html">Ελληνικά</a></li><!--
Greek -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+ "/philosophy/microsoft.fr.html">Français</a></li><!-- French -->
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft.id.html">Bahasa
+ Indonesia</a></li><!-- Indonesian -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+ "/philosophy/microsoft.it.html">Italiano</a></li><!-- Italian -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+ "/philosophy/microsoft.ko.html">한국어</a></li><!--
Korean -->
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft.hu.html">Magyar</a></li>
+ <!-- Hungarian -->
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft.pl.html">Polski</a></li>
+ <!-- Polski -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+
"/philosophy/microsoft.ru.html">Русский</a></li><!--
Russian -->
+
+ <li><a href=
+
"/philosophy/microsoft.sr.html">Српски</a></li><!--
Serbian -->
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
</body>
</html>