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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
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Subject: |
www/philosophy amazon.html |
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Date: |
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:48:18 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 07/03/25 16:48:18
Modified files:
philosophy : amazon.html
Log message:
* Templated; unfo the announcement is rather long to fit in the
special field.
* Added link to the German translation.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/amazon.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
Patches:
Index: amazon.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/amazon.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- amazon.html 5 May 2005 19:37:13 -0000 1.18
+++ amazon.html 25 Mar 2007 16:48:15 -0000 1.19
@@ -1,25 +1,9 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
-
-<head>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
<title>(Formerly) Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
(FSF)</title>
-<meta http-equiv="content-type" content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gnu.css" />
-<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"; />
-</head>
-
-<!-- This document is in XML, and xhtml 1.0 -->
-<!-- Please make sure to properly nest your tags -->
-<!-- and ensure that your final document validates -->
-<!-- consistent with W3C xhtml 1.0 and CSS standards -->
-<!-- See validator.w3.org -->
-
-<body>
-
-<p><a href="#translations">Translations</a> of this page</p>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Boycott Amazon!</h2>
+<blockquote>
<p>
The FSF decided to end its boycott of Amazon in September 2002. (We
forgot to edit this page at the time.) We could not tell the precise
@@ -27,20 +11,13 @@
be very harmful to the defendent. And Amazon had not attacked anyone
else.</p>
<p>
-Amazon has got a number of other menacing patents since then,
-but has not as yet used them for aggression. Perhaps it will
-not do so. If it does, we will take a look at how to denounce it.</P>
+Amazon has got a number of other menacing patents since then, but has
+not as yet used them for aggression. Perhaps it will not do so. If
+it does, we will take a look at how to denounce it.</p>
<p>
The rest of this page is as it was in 2001 while the boycott
was active.</p>
-<hr />
-
-<h3>Boycott Amazon!</h3>
-<p>
-<a href="/graphics/philosophicalgnu.html"><img
src="/graphics/philosophical-gnu-sm.jpg"
- alt=" [image of a Philosophical Gnu] "
- width="160" height="200" /></a>
-</p>
+</blockquote>
<hr />
@@ -52,25 +29,17 @@
<strong>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html</strong> !!!!
</p>
-<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
-<ul>
- <li><a id="TOCwhyBoycott" href="#whyBoycott">Why We Boycott Amazon</a></li>
- <li><a id="TOCwhyContinue" href="#whyContinue">Why the Boycott Continues
- Given that the Suit has Settled</a></li>
- <li><a id="TOCUpdates" href="#Updates">Updates and Links</a></li>
-</ul>
-
<hr />
-<h4><a href="#TOCwhyBoycott" id="whyBoycott">Why we boycott Amazon</a></h4>
+<h3 id="whyBoycott">Why we boycott Amazon</h3>
<p>
Amazon has obtained a <a href="/philosophy/amazonpatent.html">US
patent (5,960,411)</a> on an important and obvious idea for
E-commerce: an idea sometimes known as one-click purchasing. The idea
is that your command in a web browser to buy a certain item can carry
along information about your identity. (It works by sending the
-server a "cookie", a kind of ID code that your browser received
-previously from the same server.)</p>
+server a “cookie”, a kind of ID code that your browser
+received previously from the same server.)</p>
<p>
Amazon has sued to block the use of this simple idea, showing that
they truly intend to monopolize it. This is an attack against the
@@ -108,7 +77,7 @@
We can hope that the court will find this patent is legally invalid,
Whether they do so will depend on detailed facts and obscure
technicalities. The patent uses piles of semirelevant detail to make
-this "invention" look like something subtle.</p>
+this “invention” look like something subtle.</p>
<p>
But we do not have to wait passively for the court to decide the
freedom of E-commerce. There is something we can do right now: we can
@@ -117,9 +86,10 @@
restrict other web sites.</p>
<p>
If you are the author of a book sold by Amazon, you can provide
-powerful help to this campaign by putting this text into the "author
-comment" about your book, on Amazon's web site. (Alas, it appears
-they are refusing to post these comments for authors.)</p>
+powerful help to this campaign by putting this text into the
+“author comment” about your book, on Amazon's web site.
+(Alas, it appears they are refusing to post these comments for
+authors.)</p>
<p>
If you have suggestions, or if you simply support the boycott, please
send mail to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>
@@ -141,8 +111,8 @@
perhaps they are talking about the time it took designing, writing,
testing, and perfecting the scripts and the web pages to handle
one-click shopping. That was surely a substantial job. Looking
-carefully at their words, it seems the "thousands of hours developing"
-could include either of these two jobs.</p>
+carefully at their words, it seems the “thousands of hours
+developing” could include either of these two jobs.</p>
<p>
But the issue here is not about the details in their particular
scripts (which they do not release to us) and web pages (which are
@@ -182,10 +152,8 @@
own personal web page, and on institutional pages as well if you can.
Make a link to this page; updated information will be placed here.</p>
-<hr />
-
-<h4><a href="#TOCwhyContinue" id="whyContinue">Why the Boycott Continues
- Given that the Suit has Settled</a></h4>
+<h3 id="whyContinue">Why the Boycott Continues Given that the Suit has
+Settled</h3>
<p>
Amazon.com reported in March 2002 that it had settled its long-running
@@ -197,9 +165,7 @@
represents a defeat for Amazon such as would justify ending the boycott.
Thus, we encourage everyone to continue the boycott.</p>
-<hr />
-
-<h4><a href="#TOCUpdates" id="Updates">Updates and Links</a></h4>
+<h3 id="Updates">Updates and Links</h3>
<p>
In this section, we list updates and links about issues related to
@@ -216,9 +182,10 @@
<p>
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard M. Stallman</a> has written a
-<a href="/philosophy/amazon-rms-tim.html">letter to Tim O'Reilly</a> in
-regard to the statement by Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, which called for
-software patents to last just 3 or 5 years.</p>
+<a href="/philosophy/amazon-rms-tim.html">letter to Tim O'Reilly</a>
+in regard to the statement by Jeff Bezos, <acronym title="Chief
+Executive Officer">CEO</acronym> of Amazon, which called for software
+patents to last just 3 or 5 years.</p>
<p>
Paul Barton-Davis
@@ -256,55 +223,17 @@
<a href="http://www.cpsr.org/links/bookstore/";>Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility have dropped their affiliation with Amazon</a>.</p>
-<hr />
-<h4><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Other Texts to Read</a></h4>
-<hr />
-
-<!-- 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 class="translations">
-<p><a id="translations"></a>
-<b>Translations of this page</b>:<br />
-
-<!-- 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 -->
-
-[
- <a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">English</a>
-| <a href="/philosophy/amazon.es.html">Español</a> <!-- Spanish
-->
-| <a href="/philosophy/amazon.fr.html">Français</a> <!-- French -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/amazon.it.html">Italiano</a> <!-- Italian -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/amazon.ja.html">日本語</a> <!--
Japanese -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/amazon.ko.html">한국어</a> <!--
Korean -->
-| <a href="/philosophy/amazon.pl.html">Polski</a> <!-- Polish -->
-| <a
href="/philosophy/amazon.ru.html">Русский</a>
<!-- Russian -->
-]
-</p>
</div>
-<div class="copyright">
-<p>
-Return to the <a href="/home.html">GNU Project home page</a>.
-</p>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+
+<p><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Other Texts to Read</a></p>
<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>
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
@@ -313,16 +242,16 @@
<p>
Please see the
-<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations">Translations
README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
translations of this article.
</p>
<p>
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA
-<br />
-Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
+Copyright © 1999, 2001, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+</p>
+<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA</address>
+<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is
preserved.
</p>
@@ -330,10 +259,47 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2005/05/05 19:37:13 $ $Author: novalis $
+$Date: 2007/03/25 16:48:15 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
+<div id="translations">
+<h3>Translations of this page:</h3>
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
+<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is Deutsch.-->
+<!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
+<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+<!-- - /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+<!-- - /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 -->
+<!-- <URL:http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm> -->
+<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities -->
+
+<ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- Deutsch -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.de.html">Deutsch</a> [de]</li>
+<!-- English -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+<!-- Spanish -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.es.html">Español</a> [es]</li>
+<!-- French -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]</li>
+<!-- Italian -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.it.html">Italiano</a> [it]</li>
+<!-- Japanese -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/amazon.ja.html">日本語</a> [ja]</li>
+<!-- Korean -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/amazon.ko.html">한국어</a> [ko]</li>
+<!-- Polish -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li>
+<!-- Russian -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/amazon.ru.html">Русский</a> [ru]</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
</body>
</html>
- www/philosophy amazon.html,
Yavor Doganov <=