www/philosophy savingeurope.html

[Pavel Kharitonov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev>       17/05/08 01:07:22

Modified files:
        philosophy     : savingeurope.html 

Log message:
        Avoid using <abbr> per fsf-html-style-sheet.html; use ids on <li>s 
instead of empty <a>.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/savingeurope.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.31&r2=1.32

Patches:
Index: savingeurope.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/savingeurope.html,v
retrieving revision 1.31
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -b -r1.31 -r1.32
--- savingeurope.html   6 May 2017 05:56:25 -0000       1.31
+++ savingeurope.html   8 May 2017 05:07:21 -0000       1.32
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.83 -->
 
 <title>Saving Europe from Software Patents - GNU Project - Free Software 
Foundation</title>
 
@@ -29,27 +29,26 @@
 Patents have played havoc with free software already.  During the
 1980s, the patent holders for public key encryption entirely
 suppressed free software for that job.  They wanted to suppress
-<acronym title="Pretty Good Privacy">PGP</acronym> too, but facing
+PGP too, but facing
 public criticism, they accepted a compromise: adding restrictions to
-<acronym>PGP</acronym> so that it was no longer free software.  (We
+PGP so that it was no longer free software.  (We
 began developing the GNU Privacy Guard after the broadest patent
 expired.)</p>
 <p>
-Compuserve developed <abbr title="Graphics Interchange Format">
-GIF</abbr> format for images, then was stunned when Unisys threatened
+Compuserve developed 
+GIF format for images, then was stunned when Unisys threatened
 to sue them and everyone else who developed or ran software to produce
-<abbr>GIF</abbr>s.  Unisys had obtained a patent on
-the <abbr title="Lempel-Ziv-Welch">LZW</abbr> data compression
-algorithm, which is one part of generating <abbr>GIF</abbr> format,
-and refuses to permit free software to use <abbr>LZW</abbr>
+GIFs.  Unisys had obtained a patent on
+the LZW data compression
+algorithm, which is one part of generating GIF format,
+and refuses to permit free software to use LZW
 (<a href="#ft2">2</a>).  As a result, any free software in the US that
-supports making true compressed <abbr>GIF</abbr>s is at risk of a
+supports making true compressed GIFs is at risk of a
 lawsuit.</p>
 <p>
 In the US and some other countries, free software
-for <abbr title="MPEG-1 Audio Layer
-3">MP3</abbr>(<a href="#ft3">3</a>) is impossible; in 1998, US
-developers who had developed free <abbr>MP3</abbr>-generation programs
+for MP3(<a href="#ft3">3</a>) is impossible; in 1998, US
+developers who had developed free MP3-generation programs
 were threatened with patent lawsuits, and forced to withdraw them.
 Some are now distributed in European countries&mdash;but if the
 European Patent Office makes this planned change, they may become
@@ -103,20 +102,20 @@
 <h4>Footnotes:</h4>
 
 <ol>
-<li><a id="ft1"></a>The European Patent Office, used by many European
+<li id="ft1">The European Patent Office, used by many European
 countries, has issued quite a number of patents that affect software,
 which were presented as something other than software patents.  The
 change now being considered would open the door to unlimited patenting
 of algorithms and software features, which would greatly increase the
 number of software patents issued.</li>
 
-<li><a id="ft2"></a>Unisys issued a cleverly worded statement which is
-often taken to permit free software for making <abbr>GIF</abbr>s, but
+<li id="ft2">Unisys issued a cleverly worded statement which is
+often taken to permit free software for making GIFs, but
 which I believe does not do so.  I wrote to their legal department to
 ask for clarification and/or a change in the policy, but received no
 reply.</li>
 
-<li><a id="ft3"></a>As of 2017 the patents on playing MP3 files have
+<li id="ft3">As of 2017 the patents on playing MP3 files have
 reportedly expired.</li>
 </ol>
 
@@ -169,7 +168,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/05/06 05:56:25 $
+$Date: 2017/05/08 05:07:21 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>