www/philosophy words-to-avoid.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       10/06/30 09:22:32

Modified files:
        philosophy     : words-to-avoid.html 

Log message:
        (PowerPoint). Put it in quotes referring to the name.
        (Protection): Mention "DRM" and refer to DefectiveByDesign.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.127&r2=1.128

Patches:
Index: words-to-avoid.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.127
retrieving revision 1.128
diff -u -b -r1.127 -r1.128
--- words-to-avoid.html 30 Jun 2010 09:16:56 -0000      1.127
+++ words-to-avoid.html 30 Jun 2010 09:22:29 -0000      1.128
@@ -513,11 +513,11 @@
 
 <h4 id="PowerPoint">&ldquo;PowerPoint&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
-Please avoid using the term &ldquo;PowerPoint&rdquo; to mean any kind of
-slide presentation.  PowerPoint is just the name of one particular
-proprietary program to make presentations, and there are plenty of free
-alternatives, such as TeX's <tt>beamer</tt> class and OpenOffice.org's
-Impress.</p>
+Please avoid using the term &ldquo;PowerPoint&rdquo; to mean any kind
+of slide presentation.  &ldquo;PowerPoint&rdquo; is just the name of
+one particular proprietary program to make presentations, and there
+are plenty of free alternatives, such as TeX's <tt>beamer</tt> class
+and OpenOffice.org's Impress.</p>
 
 
 <h4 id="Protection">&ldquo;Protection&rdquo;</h4>
@@ -539,11 +539,13 @@
 
 <p>
 The term &ldquo;protection&rdquo; is also used to describe malicious
-features.  For instance, &ldquo;copy protection&rdquo; is a feature that
-interferes with copying.  From the user's point of view, this is
-obstruction.  So we can call that malicious feature &ldquo;copy
-obstruction.&rdquo;</p>
-
+features.  For instance, &ldquo;copy protection&rdquo; is a feature
+that interferes with copying.  From the user's point of view, this is
+obstruction.  So we could call that malicious feature &ldquo;copy
+obstruction.&rdquo;  More often it is called Digital Restrictions
+Management (DRM)&mdash;see the
+<a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org";> Defective by Design</a>
+campaign.</p>
 
 <h4 id="RAND">&ldquo;RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory)&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
@@ -690,7 +692,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/06/30 09:16:56 $
+$Date: 2010/06/30 09:22:29 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>