www/proprietary proprietary.html malware-adobe....

[Pavel Kharitonov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev>       16/08/29 16:03:16

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary.html 
Added files:
        proprietary    : malware-adobe.html 

Log message:
        Add Adobe-specific page RT #1138055.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.9&r2=1.10
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-adobe.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -b -r1.9 -r1.10
--- proprietary.html    24 Jul 2016 12:50:16 -0000      1.9
+++ proprietary.html    29 Aug 2016 16:03:16 -0000      1.10
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
   <li><strong>Company or type of product</strong></li>
   <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html">Apple Malware</a></li>
   <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">Microsoft Malware</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-adobe.html">Adobe Malware</a></li>
   <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html">Malware in mobile 
devices</a></li>
   <li><a href="/proprietary/malware-kindle-swindle.html">Malware in the Amazon
       Swindle</a></li>
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/07/24 12:50:16 $
+$Date: 2016/08/29 16:03:16 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: malware-adobe.html
===================================================================
RCS file: malware-adobe.html
diff -N malware-adobe.html
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ malware-adobe.html  29 Aug 2016 16:03:16 -0000      1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
+<title>Adobe's Software Is Malware
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<h2>Adobe's Software is Malware</h2>
+
+<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary
+malware</a></p>
+
+<div class="highlight-para">
+<p>
+<em>Malware</em> means software designed to function in ways that
+mistreat or harm the user.  (This does not include accidental errors.)
+This page explains how Adobe software is malware.
+</p>
+
+<p>Malware and nonfree software are two different issues.  The
+difference between <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free
+software</a> and nonfree software is in
+<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+whether the users have control of the program or vice versa</a>.  It's
+not directly a question of what the program <em>does</em> when it
+runs.  However, in practice nonfree software is often malware,
+because the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix
+any malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>Adobe made &ldquo;Digital Editions,&rdquo; the e-reader used by
+most US libraries, spy on the user <a
+href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/drm-strikes-again-3575860/";>for
+the sake of DRM</a>.</p></li>
+
+<li><p>Adobe nonfree software may halt all other work and freeze a
+computer <a
+href="http://shallowsky.com/blog/gimp/non-free-software-surprises.html";>
+to perform a license check</a>, at a random time every 30
+days.</p></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>Adobe made &ldquo;Digital Editions,&rdquo; the e-reader used by
+most US libraries, <a
+href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/drm-strikes-again-3575860/";>
+send lots of data to Adobe</a>.  Adobe's &ldquo;excuse&rdquo;: it's
+needed to check DRM!</p></li>
+</ul>
+
+</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:
+
+        We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+        translations.  However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+        Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+        to <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>
+        &lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.</p>
+
+        <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+        our web pages, see <a
+        href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+        README</a>. -->
+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 4.0.  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
+     document.  For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+     document was modified, or published.
+
+     If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+     Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+     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; 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2016/08/29 16:03:16 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>