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Rob Myers |
Subject: |
www/philosophy copyright-versus-community.html ... |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:32:40 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Rob Myers <robmyers> 09/12/01 20:32:40
Modified files:
philosophy : copyright-versus-community.html
danger-of-software-patents.html
Log message:
Fix html errors.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.10&r2=1.11
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/danger-of-software-patents.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6
Patches:
Index: copyright-versus-community.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html,v
retrieving revision 1.10
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -b -r1.10 -r1.11
--- copyright-versus-community.html 30 Nov 2009 22:43:59 -0000 1.10
+++ copyright-versus-community.html 1 Dec 2009 20:32:33 -0000 1.11
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<h2>Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks</h2>
<p><b>Keynote speech at LIANZA conference, Christchurch Convention Centre, 12
-October 2009</b><p>
+October 2009</b></p>
<dl>
<dt>BC:</dt>
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
<dd>We can't tell.</dd>
<dt>BC:</dt>
-<dd>I said that—I still like it. His ideas about software freedom and
free
+<dd><p>I said that—I still like it. His ideas about software freedom
and free
access to information were used by Tim Berners-Lee when he created the
world's first web server, and in 1999 his musings about a free online
encyclopedia inspired Jimmy Wales to set up what is now Wikipedia.</p>
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
of computer networks, and their implications for libraries. Richard.</p></dd>
<dt>RMS:</dt>
-<dd>I've been in New Zealand for a couple of weeks, and in the North Island
+<dd><p>I've been in New Zealand for a couple of weeks, and in the North Island
it was raining most of the time. Now I know why they call gumboots
“Wellingtons”. And then I saw somebody who was making chairs and
tables out of
ponga wood, and he called it fern-iture. Then we took the ferry to get here,
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
<p>Free software is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free
speech”,
not “free beer”. Free software is software that respects the
user's freedom,
-and there are four specific freedoms that the user deserves always to have.
+and there are four specific freedoms that the user deserves always to have.</p>
+
<ul>
<li>Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the program as you wish.</li>
@@ -64,8 +65,7 @@
<li>And Freedom 3 is the freedom to contribute to your community. That's the
freedom to publish your modified versions when you wish.</li>
-<ul>
-</p>
+</ul>
<p>If the program gives you these four freedoms then it's free software, which
means the social system of its distribution and use is an ethical system,
@@ -548,7 +548,8 @@
<p>I have nothing against distributing books in digital form, if they are not
designed to take away our freedom. Strictly speaking, it is possible to have
-an ebook reader:
+an ebook reader:</p>
+
<ul>
<li>that is not designed to attack you,</li>
@@ -561,7 +562,7 @@
<li>which doesn't have a back door, [and]</li>
<li>which doesn't restrict what you can do with the files on your machine.</li>
-</ul></p>
+</ul>
<p>It's possible, but the big companies really pushing ebooks are doing it to
attack our freedom, and we mustn't stand for that. This is what governments
@@ -890,7 +891,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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-$Date: 2009/11/30 22:43:59 $
+$Date: 2009/12/01 20:32:33 $
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</p>
</div>
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retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- danger-of-software-patents.html 30 Nov 2009 22:09:21 -0000 1.5
+++ danger-of-software-patents.html 1 Dec 2009 20:32:33 -0000 1.6
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
you who have not heard of him previously, he has launched the
development of the GNU operating system. I had never heard GNU said
before, and I went online to YouTube (where would we be be without
-YouTube)…</p>
+YouTube)…</p></dd>
<dt>RMS:</dt>
<dd>Oh, you shouldn't recommend YouTube, because they distribute in a
@@ -826,6 +826,7 @@
engineering that we don't have to worry about.</p>
<p>For instance, when I put an <code>if</code>-statement inside of a
<code>while</code>-loop,
+</p>
<ul>
<li>I don't have to worry that if this <code>while</code>-loop repeats at the
wrong
@@ -848,7 +849,7 @@
<li>I don't have to worry about how I would take out the broken
<code>if</code>-statement if it does crack, burn, or corrode, and replace it
with
another <code>if</code>-statement to make the program run again.</li>
-</ul></p>
+</ul>
<p>For that matter, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to insert
the <code>if</code>-statement inside the <code>while</code>-statement every
time I produce a
@@ -1067,7 +1068,7 @@
copyright law, I've criticized it. But it's a totally different,
unrelated issue. If you think that patent law helps somebody who is
developing software, it means that you have got a completely wrong
-picture of what patent law actually does.<p></dd>
+picture of what patent law actually does.</p></dd>
<dt>Q.</dt>
<dd>Don't get me wrong. I'm on your side.</dd>
@@ -1381,7 +1382,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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-$Date: 2009/11/30 22:09:21 $
+$Date: 2009/12/01 20:32:33 $
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