www/proprietary proprietary.html proprietary-te...

[Pavel Kharitonov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev>       16/09/09 08:30:00

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary.html proprietary-tethers.html 
Added files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-subscriptions.html 

Log message:
        Add proprietary-subscriptions.html RT #1141155.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-subscriptions.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: proprietary.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary.html,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12
--- proprietary.html    8 Sep 2016 15:53:57 -0000       1.11
+++ proprietary.html    9 Sep 2016 08:30:00 -0000       1.12
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html">Sabotage</a></li>
 <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-interference.html">Interference</a></li>
 <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html">Surveillance</a></li>
+<li><a 
href="/proprietary/proprietary-subscriptions.html">Subscriptions</a></li>
 <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html">Tethers</a> to
 servers</li>
 <li><a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">Digital restrictions
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/09/08 15:53:57 $
+$Date: 2016/09/09 08:30:00 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-tethers.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -r1.3 -r1.4
--- proprietary-tethers.html    8 Sep 2016 16:10:53 -0000       1.3
+++ proprietary-tethers.html    9 Sep 2016 08:30:00 -0000       1.4
@@ -15,30 +15,11 @@
 basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
 detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
 
-<p>It sounds simple to say that a certain program &ldquo;requires a
-subscription.&rdquo;  What that means concretely is that it contains a
-time bomb, so that it will refuse to operate after that date.  Or else
-it is tethered to a server, and that server checks the date.  Either
-one is a malicious functionality.</p>
+<p>This document reports instances where proprietary software 
+is tethered to a server.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <li>
-<p><a
-href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/adobe-software-subscription-model-means-you-cant-own-your-software/";>
-Adobe tools require a subscription</a>.  Adobe also tried to <a
-href="http://chocolateandvodka.com/2014/02/20/adobe-creative-cloud-subscription-warning/";>
-rip people off by making the subscriptions annual</a>,
-but that is a secondary issue compared with the basic wrong of the
-time bomb.  When a program proprietary, and even malware, don't get
-distracted by the secondary issues like price.</p>
-
-<p>Please don't repeat the marketing term &ldquo;Creative Cloud&rdquo;
-except to express revulsion for it.  The <a
-href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing"> term
-&ldquo;cloud&rdquo; is designed to cloud users' minds</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
 <p>A half-blind security critique of a tracking app: it found that <a
 
href="http://www.consumerreports.org/mobile-security-software/glow-pregnancy-app-exposed-women-to-privacy-threats/";>
 blatant flaws allowed anyone to snoop on a user's personal data</a>.
@@ -117,7 +98,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/09/08 16:10:53 $
+$Date: 2016/09/09 08:30:00 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

Index: proprietary-subscriptions.html
===================================================================
RCS file: proprietary-subscriptions.html
diff -N proprietary-subscriptions.html
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ proprietary-subscriptions.html      9 Sep 2016 08:30:00 -0000       1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
+<title>Proprietary Subscriptions
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Proprietary Subscriptions</h2>
+
+<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary 
malware</a></p>
+
+<p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to
+mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers,
+which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a
+href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the
+basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
+detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
+
+<p>It sounds simple to say that a certain program &ldquo;requires a
+subscription.&rdquo;  What that means concretely is that it contains a
+time bomb, so that it will refuse to operate after that date.  Or else
+it is tethered to a server, and that server checks the date.  Either
+one is a malicious functionality.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p><a
+href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/adobe-software-subscription-model-means-you-cant-own-your-software/";>
+Adobe tools require a subscription</a>.  Adobe also tried to <a
+href="http://chocolateandvodka.com/2014/02/20/adobe-creative-cloud-subscription-warning/";>
+rip people off by making the subscriptions annual</a>,
+but that is a secondary issue compared with the basic wrong of the
+time bomb.  When a program proprietary, and even malware, don't get
+distracted by the secondary issues like price.</p>
+
+<p>Please don't repeat the marketing term &ldquo;Creative Cloud&rdquo;
+except to express revulsion for it.  The <a
+href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing"> term
+&ldquo;cloud&rdquo; is designed to cloud users' minds</a>.</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: 2016/09/09 08:30:00 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>