www/philosophy ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/05/11 23:17:00

Modified files:
        philosophy     : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html 

Log message:
        Punctuation changes; add links.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15

Patches:
Index: ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html   12 Apr 2014 12:39:59 -0000      1.14
+++ ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html   11 May 2014 23:17:00 -0000      1.15
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
 malicious software can display them.</p>
 
 <p>Many other habits that we readers are accustomed to are &ldquo;not
-allowed&rdquo; for e-books. With the Amazon &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo;, to take one 
example,
+allowed&rdquo; for e-books. With the Amazon &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; (for which <a 
href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">&ldquo;Swindle&rdquo;</a>
+is a more fitting name), to take one example,
 users can't buy a book anonymously with cash. &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; books are
 typically available from Amazon only, and Amazon makes users identify
 themselves. Thus, Amazon knows exactly which books each user has
@@ -52,15 +53,15 @@
 People reading 1984 in the &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; had an Orwellian experience: 
their
 e-books vanished right before their eyes, as Amazon used a malicious
 software feature called a &ldquo;back door&rdquo; to remotely delete them
-(virtual book-burning; is that what &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; means?). But don't 
worry,
+(virtual book-burning; is that what &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; means?). But don't 
worry;
 Amazon promised never to do this again, except by order of the state.</p>
 
 <p>With software, either the users control the program (making such software <a
-href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"> Libre or Free</a>)
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">Libre or Free</a>)
 or the program controls its users (non-Libre). Amazon's e-book
 policies imitate the distribution policies of non-Libre software, but
-that's not the only relationship between the two. The malicious
-software features described above are imposed on users via software
+that's not the only relationship between the two. The <a 
href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">malicious
+software features</a> described above are imposed on users via software
 that's not Libre. If a Libre program had malicious features like
 those, some users skilled at programming would remove them, then
 provide the corrected version to all the other users. Users can't
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:39:59 $
+$Date: 2014/05/11 23:17:00 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>