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Yavor Doganov |
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Subject: |
www/philosophy fighting-software-patents.html |
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Date: |
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:40:33 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 07/04/10 20:40:32
Modified files:
philosophy : fighting-software-patents.html
Log message:
ldquo/rdquo/mdash & link to the Azerbaijani translation.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
Patches:
Index: fighting-software-patents.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- fighting-software-patents.html 5 Apr 2007 20:05:14 -0000 1.14
+++ fighting-software-patents.html 10 Apr 2007 20:40:27 -0000 1.15
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
<h2>Fighting Software Patents - Singly and Together</h2>
-<div id="rms-image"></div>
-
<p>by Richard Stallman</p>
<p>
@@ -27,14 +25,14 @@
Practically speaking, if you are a software developer, you will
usually be threatened by one patent at a time. When this happens, you
may be able to escape unscathed if you find legal grounds to overturn
-the patent. You may as well try it; if you succeed, that will mean
-one less mine in the mine field. If this patent is particularly
+the patent. You may as well try it; if you succeed, that will mean one
+less mine in the mine field. If this patent is particularly
threatening to the public, the <a href="http://www.pubpat.org";>Public
-Patent Foundation (pubpat.org)</a>
-may take up the case; that is its specialty. If you ask for the
-computer-using community's help in searching for prior publication of
-the same idea, to use as evidence to overturn a patent, we should all
-respond with whatever useful information we might have.</p>
+Patent Foundation (pubpat.org)</a> may take up the case; that is its
+specialty. If you ask for the computer-using community's help in
+searching for prior publication of the same idea, to use as evidence
+to overturn a patent, we should all respond with whatever useful
+information we might have.</p>
<p>
However, fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger
of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitos will eliminate
@@ -49,12 +47,13 @@
harmful, and every software patent unjustly restricts how you use your
computer, but not every software patent is legally invalid according
to the patent system's criteria. The software patents we can overturn
-are those that result from "mistakes", where the patent system's rules
-were not properly carried out. There is nothing we can do when the
-only relevant mistake was the policy of allowing software patents.</p>
+are those that result from “mistakes”, where the patent
+system's rules were not properly carried out. There is nothing we can
+do when the only relevant mistake was the policy of allowing software
+patents.</p>
<p>
To make a part of the castle safe, you've got to do more than kill the
-monsters as they appear--you have to wipe out the generator that
+monsters as they appear—you have to wipe out the generator that
produces them. Overturning existing patents one by one will not make
programming safe. To do that, we have to change the patent system so
that patents can no longer threaten software developers and users.</p>
@@ -63,11 +62,11 @@
short-term escape and the long-term fix at once. If we take care, we
can make our efforts to overturn individual software patents do double
duty, building support for efforts to correct the whole problem. The
-crucial point is not to equate "bad" software patents with mistaken or
-invalid software patents. Each time we invalidate one software
-patent, each time we talk about our plans to try, we should say in no
-uncertain terms, "One less software patent, one less menace to
-programmers: the target is zero."</p>
+crucial point is not to equate “bad” software patents with
+mistaken or invalid software patents. Each time we invalidate one
+software patent, each time we talk about our plans to try, we should
+say in no uncertain terms, “One less software patent, one less
+menace to programmers: the target is zero.”</p>
<p>
The battle over software patents in the European Union is reaching a
crucial stage. The European Parliament voted a year ago to reject
@@ -77,8 +76,9 @@
this has already reversed its vote. We must all do our utmost right
now to convince an additional European country to change its vote, and
to convince the newly elected members of the European Parliament to
-stand behind the previous vote. Please refer to <a href="http://www.ffii.org/";>
-www.ffii.org</a> for more information on how to help, and to get in touch with
other
+stand behind the previous vote. Please refer
+to <a href="http://www.ffii.org/";> www.ffii.org</a> for more
+information on how to help, and to get in touch with other
activists.</p>
</div>
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-There are also <a href="http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html";>other ways to
contact</a>
-the FSF.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>. There are
+also <a href="http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html";>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>.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
<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>
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/04/05 20:05:14 $
+$Date: 2007/04/10 20:40:27 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -124,14 +124,24 @@
<h4>Translations of this page</h4>
<ul class="translations-list">
-<li> <a hreflang="ca"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.ca.html">Català</a> [ca]
<!-- Catalan --></li>
-<li> <a hreflang="en-US"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html">English</a> [en]</li>
-<li> <a hreflang="es"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.es.html">Español</a> [es]
<!-- Spanish --></li>
-<li> <a hreflang="el"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.el.html">Ελληνικά</a> [el]
<!-- Greek --></li>
-<li> <a hreflang="fr"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]
<!-- French --></li>
-<li> <a hreflang="it"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.it.html">Italiano</a> [it]
<!-- Italian --></li>
-<li> <a hreflang="pl"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl] <!--
Polish --></li>
-<li> <a hreflang="pt"
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.pt.html">Português</a> [pt]
<!--Portuguese --></li>
+<!-- Azerbaijani -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.az.html">Azərbaycanca</a> [az]</li>
+<!-- Catalan -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.ca.html">Català</a> [ca]</li>
+<!-- Greek -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.el.html">Ελληνικά</a> [el]</li>
+<!-- English -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+<!-- Spanish -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.es.html">Español</a> [es]</li>
+<!-- French -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]</li>
+<!-- Italian -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.it.html">Italiano</a> [it]</li>
+<!-- Polish -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li>
+<!--Portuguese -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.pt.html">Português</a> [pt]</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>