www/philosophy proprietary.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/11/26 03:15:22

Modified files:
        philosophy     : proprietary.html 

Log message:
        Clarify the basic point using the term "malware".

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7

Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- proprietary.html    7 Sep 2013 07:42:19 -0000       1.6
+++ proprietary.html    26 Nov 2013 03:15:21 -0000      1.7
@@ -8,9 +8,14 @@
 
 <p>Proprietary software, nonfree software, is software that doesn't
 respect users' freedom and community.  The developer or owner has
-power over its users.  That in itself is an injustice, but it leads to
-more injustice.  Power corrupts, so the program's owner often takes
-advantage of it to do further nasty things to the users.</p>
+power over its users.  That in itself is an injustice, but it often
+leads to further injustice.</p>
+
+<p>Power corrupts, so the program's owner is tempted to put malicious
+functionality into the program &mdash; that is, to make
+it <em>malware</em>.  Malware means software whose functioning
+mistreats the user.  This page gives examples of widely used
+proprietary programs that are known to be malware.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-back-doors.html">Proprietary back
@@ -26,9 +31,10 @@
 </ul>
 
 <p>The way to avoid these forms of abuse is by insisting on
-<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free (freedom-respecting) software.</a>  
Since
-free software is controlled by its users, they have a chance to defend
-themselves and each other against malicious software functions.</p>
+<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free (freedom-respecting)
+software.</a>  Since free software is controlled by its users, they
+have a pretty good defense against malicious software
+functionality.  Users of proprietary software are defenseless.</p>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -85,7 +91,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/09/07 07:42:19 $
+$Date: 2013/11/26 03:15:21 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>