www/philosophy who-does-that-server-really-serv...

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/01/05 12:53:06

Modified files:
        philosophy     : who-does-that-server-really-serve.html 

Log message:
        Clarify how SaaSS is not a matter of whether server software is free.
        Mention "open software service" and say what it fails to address.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.51&r2=1.52

Patches:
Index: who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html,v
retrieving revision 1.51
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -b -r1.51 -r1.52
--- who-does-that-server-really-serve.html      12 Apr 2014 12:40:49 -0000      
1.51
+++ who-does-that-server-really-serve.html      5 Jan 2015 12:53:05 -0000       
1.52
@@ -154,15 +154,15 @@
 browser.  Some web pages install nontrivial, even large JavaScript
 programs into your browser without informing
 you.  <a href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">When these JavaScript
-programs are nonfree</a>, they are the same sort of problem as any
+programs are nonfree</a>, they cause the same sort of injustice as any
 other nonfree software.  Here, however, we are concerned with the
-problem of the server software itself.</p>
+issue of using the service itself.</p>
 
 <p>Many free software supporters assume that the problem of SaaSS will
 be solved by developing free software for servers.  For the server
 operator's sake, the programs on the server had better be free; if
 they are proprietary, their owners have power over the server.  That's
-unfair to the operator, and doesn't help the users at all.  But if the
+unfair to the server operator, and doesn't help the users at all.  But if the
 programs on the server are free, that doesn't protect <em>the server's
 users</em> from the effects of SaaSS.  These programs liberate the
 server operator, but not the server's users.</p>
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@
 use SaaSS!</em>  Don't use someone else's server to do your own
 computing on data provided by you.</p>
 
+<p>This issue demonstrates the depth of the difference between
+&ldquo;open&rdquo; and &ldquo;free&rdquo;.  Source code that is open
+source <a href="/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html">is, nearly always,
+free</a>.  However, the idea of
+an <a href="http://opendefinition.org/software-service";>&ldquo;open
+software&rdquo; service</a>, meaning one whose server software is open
+source and/or free, fails to address the issue of SaaSS.</p>
+
 <p>Services are fundamentally different from programs, and the ethical
 issues that services raise are fundamentally different from the issues
 that programs raise.  To avoid confusion,
@@ -423,7 +431,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:49 $
+$Date: 2015/01/05 12:53:05 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>