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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/philosophy right-to-read.html |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:57:49 +0000 (UTC) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 16/06/30 08:57:48
Modified files:
philosophy : right-to-read.html
Log message:
Remove <abbr> for FBI; place note on mailing list at the end, in
div.announcement; replace <strong> with <cite> for journal names; fix margins
in author's notes (RT #1122689)
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.89&r2=1.90
Patches:
Index: right-to-read.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html,v
retrieving revision 1.89
retrieving revision 1.90
diff -u -b -r1.89 -r1.90
--- right-to-read.html 26 Mar 2016 15:31:09 -0000 1.89
+++ right-to-read.html 30 Jun 2016 08:57:48 -0000 1.90
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
<title>The Right to Read
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
+hr { margin: 1.2em 0; }
+#content ul li p { margin-top: 1em; }
+#AuthorsNote ul li { margin-top: 1.2em; }
+--></style>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/right-to-read.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>The Right to Read</h2>
@@ -9,14 +14,11 @@
<p>
by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p>
-<blockquote class="note">
-<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our mailing list
about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
<p>
<em>This article appeared in the February 1997 issue
-of <strong>Communications of the ACM</strong> (Volume 40, Number
+of <cite>Communications of the ACM</cite> (Volume 40, Number
2).</em></p>
+<hr />
<blockquote><p>
From <cite>The Road To Tycho</cite>, a collection of
@@ -101,7 +103,7 @@
the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like
debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without
knowing your computer's root password. And neither
-the <abbr title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</abbr> nor
+the FBI nor
Microsoft Support would tell you that.</p>
<p>
@@ -151,6 +153,11 @@
the long arm of the SPA. When the Tycho Uprising began in 2062, the
universal right to read soon became one of its central aims.</p>
+<div class="announcement">
+<blockquote>
+<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our mailing list
about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+</div>
<h3 id="AuthorsNote">Author's Notes</h3>
@@ -218,7 +225,7 @@
<p>
One of the ideas in the story was not proposed in reality until 2002.
-This is the idea that the <abbr>FBI</abbr> and Microsoft will keep the
+This is the idea that the FBI and Microsoft will keep the
root passwords for your personal computers, and not let you have
them.</p>
@@ -231,7 +238,7 @@
implemented in 2007 as part of <a href="http://badvista.org/">Windows
Vista</a>; we expect Apple to do something similar. In this scheme,
it is the manufacturer that keeps the secret code, but
-the <abbr>FBI</abbr> would have little trouble getting it.</p>
+the FBI would have little trouble getting it.</p>
<p>
What Microsoft keeps is not exactly a password in the traditional
@@ -422,7 +429,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/03/26 15:31:09 $
+$Date: 2016/06/30 08:57:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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