www/server/staging proprietary.html

[Pavel Kharitonov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev>       14/05/20 04:20:40

Added files:
        server/staging : proprietary.html 

Log message:
        Draft changes for RT #914789.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
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RCS file: proprietary.html
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<title>Proprietary Software
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+ <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/proprietary.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen">
+div.companies { float: right; margin-bottom: .5em; }
+</style>
+<h2>Proprietary Software</h2>
+
+<div class="toc">
+<div class="companies">
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="/philosophy/malware-apple.html">Apple's software is 
malware</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html">Microsoft's software is
+  malware</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/philosophy/malware-mobiles.html">Malware in mobile 
devices</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/philosophy/malware-kindle-swindle.html">Malware in the Amazon
+  Swindle</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-back-doors.html">Proprietary back
+    doors</a></li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-insecurity.html">Proprietary
+    insecurity</a></li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-sabotage.html">Proprietary
+    sabotage</a></li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html">Proprietary
+    surveillance</a></li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-drm.html">Digital restrictions
+    management</a> or &ldquo;DRM&rdquo; means functionalities designed
+    to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-jails.html">Jails</a>&mdash;systems 
+    that impose censorship on application programs.</li>
+<li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary-tyrants.html">Tyrants</a>&mdash;systems 
+    that reject any operating system not &ldquo;authorized&rdquo; by the 
+    manufacturer.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<p>Proprietary software, nonfree software, means software that doesn't
+<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">respect users' freedom and
+community</a>.  The developer or owner has power over its users.
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+Proprietary software is itself an injustice</a>, although most users
+don't recognize it as such.  The point of this page is that the one
+injustice often leads to further injustice.</p>
+
+<p>Power corrupts, so the proprietary program's developer is tempted
+to design the program to mistreat its users &mdash;that is, to make
+it <em>malware</em>.  (Malware means software whose functioning
+mistreats the user.)  Of course, the developer usually does not do
+this out of malice, but rather to put the users at a disadvantage.
+That does not make it any less nasty or more legitimate.</p>
+
+<p>Yielding to that temptation has become ever more frequent; nowadays
+it is standard practice.  Modern proprietary software is software for
+suckers!</p>
+
+<p>Users of proprietary software are defenseless against these forms
+of mistreatment.  The way to avoid them is by insisting on
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
+(freedom-respecting) software.</a>  Since free software is controlled
+by its users, they have a pretty good defense against malicious
+software functionality.</p>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.  Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+        replace it with the translation of these two:
+
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+        translations.  However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+        Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
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+
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+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+     files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+     be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US.  Please do NOT change or remove this
+     without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+     Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
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+     document was modified, or published.
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+     years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+     year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+     being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+     
+     There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+     Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2013, 2014 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>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/05/20 04:20:38 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+