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From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/philosophy/proprietary proprietary-sabotage... |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:14:51 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 14/11/14 00:14:51
Modified files:
philosophy/proprietary: proprietary-sabotage.html
Log message:
Adobe applications have time bomb.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
Patches:
Index: proprietary-sabotage.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- proprietary-sabotage.html 24 Oct 2014 14:51:58 -0000 1.4
+++ proprietary-sabotage.html 14 Nov 2014 00:14:50 -0000 1.5
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
user agrees to a new EULA.</a>
</p>
<p>We can be quite sure this EULA is is unjust because injustice is
-the only motive for imposing a EULA.
+the only motive for imposing an EULA.
</p>
</li>
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@
</li>
<li>
+<p>Adobe applications have time bombs:
+they <a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/06/adobe-goes-all-in-with-subscription-based-creative-cloud-will-stop-selling-regular-cs-licenses-shrink-wrapped-boxes/">stop
+working after a certain time</a>, after which the user must pay to
+extend the time.</p>
+
+<p>Once there was a problem with the servers that these programs use
+to check who has paid, and
+<a
href="http://www.macuser.co.uk/9015-adobe-creative-cloud-outage-leaves-adobe-users-locked-out">the
applications refused to work for anyone</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
<p>Sony <a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/sony-steals-feature-from-your-playstation-3">sabotaged
the Playstation 3</a> with a firmware downgrade that removed the
feature that allowed users to run GNU/Linux on it.</p>
@@ -171,7 +182,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/10/24 14:51:58 $
+$Date: 2014/11/14 00:14:50 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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