www/philosophy free-software-even-more-importan...

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       17/01/06 22:14:49

Modified files:
        philosophy     : free-software-even-more-important.html 

Log message:
        Give number of known malware functionalities.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.19&r2=1.20

Patches:
Index: free-software-even-more-important.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -b -r1.19 -r1.20
--- free-software-even-more-important.html      1 Sep 2015 20:25:19 -0000       
1.19
+++ free-software-even-more-important.html      6 Jan 2017 22:14:48 -0000       
1.20
@@ -34,8 +34,10 @@
 <p>Those two nonfree programs have something else in common: they are
 both <em>malware</em>.  That is, both have functionalities designed to
 mistreat the user.  Proprietary software nowadays is often malware
-because <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">the
-developers' power corrupts them</a>.</p>
+because <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">the developers' power
+corrupts them</a>.  That directory lists around 260 different
+malicious functionalities (as of Jan 2017), but it is surely just the
+tip of the iceberg.</p>
 
 <p>With free software, the users control the program, both individually
 and collectively.  So they control what their computers do (assuming
@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/09/01 20:25:19 $
+$Date: 2017/01/06 22:14:48 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>