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www/philosophy gates.html
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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
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Subject: |
www/philosophy gates.html |
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Date: |
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:48:55 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 08/07/10 12:48:55
Modified files:
philosophy : gates.html
Log message:
Use entities for quotes.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/gates.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3
Patches:
Index: gates.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/gates.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- gates.html 9 Jul 2008 18:52:58 -0000 1.2
+++ gates.html 10 Jul 2008 12:48:36 -0000 1.3
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
<p>Many computerists specially hate Gates and Microsoft. They
have plenty of reasons.</p>
- <p><strong>'Solicit funds'</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>‘Solicit funds’</strong></p>
<p>Microsoft persistently engages in anti-competitive behaviour,
and has been convicted three times. George W Bush, who let
@@ -44,28 +44,28 @@
to Microsoft headquarters to solicit funds for the 2000
election.</p>
- <p>Many users hate the "Microsoft tax", the retail contracts that
- make you pay for Windows on your computer even if you won't use
- it.</p>
+ <p>Many users hate the “Microsoft tax”, the retail
+ contracts that make you pay for Windows on your computer even if you
+ won't use it.</p>
<p>In some countries you can get a refund, but the effort
required is daunting.</p>
<p>There's also the Digital Restrictions Management: software
- features designed to "stop" you from accessing your files freely.
- Increased restriction of users seems to be the main advance of
- Vista.</p>
+ features designed to “stop” you from accessing your
+ files freely. Increased restriction of users seems to be the main
+ advance of Vista.</p>
- <p><strong>'Gratuitous incompatibilities'</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>‘Gratuitous incompatibilities’</strong></p>
<p>Then there are the gratuitous incompatibilities and obstacles
to interoperation with other software. This is why the EU
required Microsoft to publish interface specifications.</p>
<p>This year Microsoft packed standards committees with its
- supporters to procure ISO approval of its unwieldy,
- unimplementable and patented "open standard" for documents. The
- EU is now investigating this.</p>
+ supporters to procure ISO approval of its unwieldy, unimplementable
+ and patented “open standard” for documents. The EU is
+ now investigating this.</p>
<p>These actions are intolerable, of course, but they are not
isolated events. They are systematic symptoms of a deeper wrong
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@
<p>If you're a business and you want to pay a programmer to make
the software suit your needs better, you can't. If you copy it to
share with your friend, which is simple good-neighbourliness,
- they call you a "pirate".</p>
+ they call you a “pirate”.</p>
- <p><strong>'Unjust system'</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>‘Unjust system’</strong></p>
<p>Microsoft would have us believe that helping your neighbour is
the moral equivalent of attacking a ship.</p>
@@ -97,11 +97,11 @@
open letter which rebuked microcomputer users for sharing copies
of his software.</p>
- <p>It said, in effect, "If you don't let me keep you divided and
- helpless, I won't write the software and you won't have any.
- Surrender to me, or you're lost!"</p>
+ <p>It said, in effect, “If you don't let me keep you divided
+ and helpless, I won't write the software and you won't have any.
+ Surrender to me, or you're lost!”</p>
- <p><strong>'Change system'</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>‘Change system’</strong></p>
<p>But Gates didn't invent proprietary software, and thousands of
other companies do the same thing. It's wrong, no matter who does
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@
gives them power over you. A change in executives or companies is
not important. What we need to change is this system.</p>
- <p>That's what the free software movement is all about. "Free"
- refers to freedom: we write and publish software that users are
- free to share and modify.</p>
+ <p>That's what the free software movement is all
+ about. “Free” refers to freedom: we write and publish
+ software that users are free to share and modify.</p>
<p>We do this systematically, for freedom's sake; some of us
paid, many as volunteers. We already have complete free operating
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@
software, so that no computer user will be tempted to cede her
freedom to get software.</p>
- <p>In 1984, when I started the free software movement, I was
- hardly aware of Gates' letter. But I'd heard similar demands from
- others, and I had a response: "If your software would keep us
- divided and helpless, please don't write it. We are better off
- without it. We will find other ways to use our computers, and
- preserve our freedom."</p>
+ <p>In 1984, when I started the free software movement, I was hardly
+ aware of Gates' letter. But I'd heard similar demands from others,
+ and I had a response: “If your software would keep us divided
+ and helpless, please don't write it. We are better off without
+ it. We will find other ways to use our computers, and preserve our
+ freedom.”</p>
<p>In 1992, when the GNU operating system was completed by the
kernel, Linux, you had to be a wizard to run it. Today GNU/Linux
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
-Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
+Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
</p>
@@ -165,14 +165,14 @@
<p>Copyright © 2008 Richard Stallman
<br />
-Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. You can copy
-and redistribute this article under the Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs
-3.0 license.</p>
+Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. You
+can copy and redistribute this article under the Creative Commons
+Attribution Noderivs 3.0 license.</p>
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/07/09 18:52:58 $
+$Date: 2008/07/10 12:48:36 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -180,18 +180,20 @@
<div id="translations">
<h4>Translations of this page</h4>
-<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical. -->
-<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is Deutsch.-->
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical by language code. -->
+<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is German. -->
+<!-- Write the language name in its own language (Deutsch) in the text. -->
<!-- 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 -->
+<!-- Please also check you have the language code right; see: -->
+<!-- http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php -->
+<!-- If the 2-letter ISO 639-1 code is not available, -->
+<!-- use the 3-letter ISO 639-2. -->
+<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities. -->
<ul class="translations-list">
<!-- English -->