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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 12/09/07 08:35:18
Modified files:
philosophy : microsoft.ca.html
Added files:
philosophy/po : microsoft.ca-diff.html
Log message:
Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/microsoft.ca.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/microsoft.ca-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: microsoft.ca.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/microsoft.ca.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- microsoft.ca.html 10 Jun 2012 09:18:43 -0000 1.18
+++ microsoft.ca.html 7 Sep 2012 08:34:39 -0000 1.19
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
<title>Ãs Microsoft el Papu? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
(FSF)</title>
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.ca.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/microsoft.ca.po";>
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/microsoft.ca.po</a>' -->
+ <!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/philosophy/microsoft.html" -->
+ <!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" value="/philosophy/po/microsoft.ca-diff.html" -->
+ <!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2012-07-09" -->
+ <!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.ca.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft.translist" -->
<h2>Ãs Microsoft el Papu?</h2>
@@ -144,7 +151,7 @@
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Updated:
-$Date: 2012/06/10 09:18:43 $
+$Date: 2012/09/07 08:34:39 $
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</p>
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--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
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@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
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+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
+<!-- Generated by GNUN -->
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>/philosophy/microsoft.html-diff</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+span.removed { background-color: #f22; color: #000; }
+span.inserted { background-color: #2f2; color: #000; }
+</style></head>
+<body><pre>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<title>Is Microsoft the Great Satan? - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft.translist" -->
+<h2>Is Microsoft the Great Satan?</h2>
+
+<div class="announcement">
+<blockquote><p>This article was given a major rewrite in 2009.
+The <a href="/philosophy/microsoft-old.html">old version</a> is
also
+available.</p></blockquote>
+</div>
+
+<p>Many people think of Microsoft as the monster menace of the
+software industry. There is even a specific campaign to boycott
+Microsoft. This feeling has intensified since Microsoft expressed
+active hostility towards free software.</p>
+
+<p>In the free software movement, our perspective is different. We
+see that Microsoft is doing something that mistreats software users:
+making software <a
href="/philosophy/categories.html#ProprietarySoftware">
+proprietary</a> and thus denying users their rightful freedom. But
+Microsoft is not alone in this; many other companies do the same thing
+to the users. If other companies manage to dominate fewer users than
+Microsoft, that is not for lack of trying.</p>
+
+<p>This is not meant to excuse Microsoft. Rather, it is meant as a
+reminder that Microsoft is the natural development of a software
+industry based on <a href="/philosophy/shouldbefree.html">keeping
+users divided and subjugating them</a>. When criticizing Microsoft,
+we should not focus so narrowly on Microsoft that we let other
+proprietary software developers off the hook.</p>
+
+<p>When we reject Microsoft's proprietary software, that is not a
+boycott. The word “boycott” means rejection, as a
+protest, of products that are otherwise acceptable. Rejecting a
+product because it hurts you is not a boycott, just ordinary
+rationality. To maintain your freedom, you need to
+reject <em>all</em> proprietary software, regardless of who
developed
+it or who distributes it.</p>
+
+<p>There is no need to reject Microsoft non-software products, or
+services that you can use without proprietary software. (When you use
+a web service, whether Microsoft's or not, watch out for
+<a href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">non-free JavaScript
+programs</a> that it may try to slip into your browser.) When
+Microsoft releases free programs, which it occasionally does, they are
+acceptable in theory; but most of them depend fundamentally on
+Microsoft proprietary software, which we do need to reject, and that
+makes them useless for anyone that chooses to live in freedom.</p>
+
+<p>In the “Halloween documents”, leaked in October 1998,
+Microsoft executives stated an intention to use various methods to
+obstruct the development of free software: specifically, designing
+secret protocols and file formats, and patenting algorithms and
+software features.</p>
+
+<p>These obstructionist policies were not new: Microsoft, and many
+other software companies, had been doing them for years. Secrecy
+and patents have obstructed us greatly, and they may be more damaging
+in the future. For the most part, the companies' main motivation in
+doing these things is to attack each other; now, it seems, we are
+specifically targeted. Microsoft is using its patents directly to
+<a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://press.redhat.com/2009/09/09/microsoft-and-patent-trolls/"></strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2009/9/microsoft-and-patent-trolls"></em></ins></span>
+attack the free software community</a>, and our community is fighting
+back.</p>
+
+<p>But Microsoft's patents are not the only patents that threaten us
+(and software developers and users generally)—consider the harm
+that the MP3 patent has done. Thus, defending against specific
+attacks is necessary but not sufficient. The only full solution is
+to <a href="http://endsoftpatents.org/">eliminate software
+patents</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>Other Microsoft practices specifically harmful to the adoption of
+free software are the ones designed to build up social inertia that
+obstructs migration to GNU/Linux. For instance, when Microsoft
+“donates” copies of Windows to schools, it converts these
+schools into tools for implanting a dependence on Windows. There are
+indications that Microsoft systematically plans these
+activities <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/wiki/index.php/EDGI"> as
+a campaign against the adoption of GNU/Linux</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Each Windows “upgrade” augments Microsoft's power over
+the users; Microsoft plans it that way. And each one is a step
+forward in malicious features, which
+include <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org">Digital Restrictions
+Management</a> and back doors. So the FSF runs campaigns to warn
+users against “upgrading”
+to <a href="http://BadVista.org/">Windows Vista</a>
+and <a href="http://Windows7Sins.org">Windows 7</a>. We aim to
reduce
+the amount of inertia they will create.</p>
+
+<p>We don't hate Microsoft, and we don't consider it the Great Satan.
+But we do recognize it as the company that has separated more users
+from their freedom than any other, and a powerful avowed enemy of
+computer users' freedom. We act accordingly.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+
+<div id="footer">
+
+<p>Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></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
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please see the
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
+translations of this article.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free
+Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2012/09/07 08:35:03 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+</pre></body></html>
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