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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 18/11/27 14:58:06
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-jails.de.html
proprietary-tyrants.de.html
proprietary/po : proprietary-jails.de-diff.html
proprietary-tyrants.de-diff.html
Log message:
Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.19&r2=1.20
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.15&r2=1.16
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.8&r2=1.9
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3
Patches:
Index: proprietary-jails.de.html
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retrieving revision 1.19
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diff -u -b -r1.19 -r1.20
--- proprietary-jails.de.html 18 Aug 2018 12:29:07 -0000 1.19
+++ proprietary-jails.de.html 27 Nov 2018 19:58:06 -0000 1.20
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2018-09-28" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.85 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Proprietäre Gefängnisse</h2>
<p><a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele proprietärer
Schadsoftware</a></p>
@@ -298,7 +304,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2018/08/18 12:29:07 $
+$Date: 2018/11/27 19:58:06 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.de.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- proprietary-tyrants.de.html 30 Aug 2018 15:58:16 -0000 1.15
+++ proprietary-tyrants.de.html 27 Nov 2018 19:58:06 -0000 1.16
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.en.html"
-->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE"
value="/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2018-09-28" --><!--#set
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/proprietary/proprietary-tyrants.en.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
<h2>Proprietäre Tyrannen</h2>
<a href="/proprietary/">Weitere Beispiele proprietärer Schadsoftware</a>
@@ -199,7 +205,7 @@
<p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
Letzte Ãnderung:
-$Date: 2018/08/30 15:58:16 $
+$Date: 2018/11/27 19:58:06 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
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diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html 29 Sep 2017 05:59:41 -0000 1.8
+++ po/proprietary-jails.de-diff.html 27 Nov 2018 19:58:06 -0000 1.9
@@ -11,14 +11,20 @@
</style></head>
<body><pre>
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.79</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.84</em></ins></span> -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.85 -->
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><!--
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Please do not edit lists with items such as <li id="Mnnnnnnnn">!
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--></em></ins></span>
<title>Proprietary Jails - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-jails.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>Proprietary Jails</h2>
-<p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Other</strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other</em></ins></span>
examples of proprietary malware</a></p>
+<p><a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of
proprietary malware</a></p>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><div class="comment"></em></ins></span>
<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
@@ -26,182 +32,243 @@
basic injustice</a>. The developers often exercise that power to the
detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
-<p>Here are examples of proprietary systems that are
-<em>jails</em>: they do not allow the user to freely install
-applications. The <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg">image of
-the iPrison</a> illustrates this issue.</p>
+<p>Here are examples of proprietary operating systems that are
+<em>jails</em>: they are designed to impose censorship of which
+applications the user can install.
+The <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg">image of the
iPrison</a>
+illustrates this issue.</p>
<!-- embed http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg here -->
<!-- Linking to it. Not possible to embed due to licensing. See RT #887471
-->
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><p>We also include specific examples
of apps that were blocked using
+that censorship power. If you know of additional examples, please
+email the specifics to webmasters@ our domain.</p></strong></del></span>
+
<p>These systems are platforms for censorship imposed by the company
that owns the system. Selling products designed as platforms for a
company to impose censorship ought to be forbidden by law, but it
isn't.</p>
-<ul>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><div class="important">
+<p>We also include specific examples of apps that were blocked using
+that censorship power. If you know of additional examples, please
+email the specifics to webmasters@ our domain.</p>
+</div>
+</div></em></ins></span>
-<li>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Apple <a
-href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
-deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>,
-thus using its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
-government.
+<p class="c">
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><a
href="#apple">Apple jails</a> |
+ <a href="#microsoft">Microsoft jails</a> |
+ <a</strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em> <a
href="#apple">Apple jails</a>
+ <a href="#microsoft">Microsoft jails</a>
+ <a</em></ins></span> href="#consoles">Game <span
class="removed"><del><strong>consoles</a></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>consoles</a> </em></ins></span>
</p>
-<p>If Apple had not designed the iMonsters to let Apple censor
-applications,
-<a href="/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html">
-Apple would not have had the power to stop users from installing
-VPNs</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
- <li></em></ins></span>
- <p>Windows 10 S ought to be called Windows 10 J, for
“Jail”:
- <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison">only
programs from the Windows Store can be
- downloaded and executed</a>.</p>
-
- <p>If the history of iOS as a jail is any indication, Windows 10 J
- will be no better.</p>
-
- </li>
-
- <li><p>Google Chrome, running on Windows, <a
href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/">is
a jail</a>.</p>
- </li>
-
-<li><p>
-Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian
-surveillance <a
-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">
-by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system
-itself. While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries
-to protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore
-subject to Russian censorship.</p>
-
-<p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
-apps.</p>
-</li>
-
- <li><p>
-Apple used its censorship system to enforce
-China's censorship <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china">by
-blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p></li>
-
- <li><p>
-Apple censors
-games, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">banning
-some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which political
-points they suggest. Some political points are apparently considered
-acceptable.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>
-Apple <a href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/">
-banned a program from the App Store</a> because its developers
-committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.
-</p></li>
-
-<li><p>
-Apple rejected an app that displayed the locations of US drone
-assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
-fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another.
-After the fifth rejection,
-Apple <a
href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/">admitted
-it was censoring the app based on the subject matter</a>.
-</p></li>
-
-<li><p>
-As of 2015, Apple <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights">systematically
bans apps that endorse abortion
-rights or would help women find abortions</a>.</p>
-
-<p>
-This particular political slant <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions">
-affects other Apple services</a>.
-</p></li>
-
-<li><p>
-<a
-href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones">Google
-censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker,</a> saying that
-blocking ads is “interference” with the sites that
-advertise (and surveil users through ads).</p>
-
-<p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google
-Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program
-gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.</p>
-
-<p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not total:
-Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
-free programs from f-droid.org.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a
href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html">
-iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is the prototype of a
-jail.</a> It was Apple that introduced the practice of designing
-general purposes computers with censorship of application
+<h3 id="apple">Apple jails</h3>
+
+<p><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IOS_jailbreaking&oldid=835861046">
+iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is the prototype
+of a jail</a>. It was Apple that introduced the practice of
+designing general purpose computers with censorship of application
programs.</p>
-<p>Apple used this censorship power in 2014
-to <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html">
-ban all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings for a time. It
-also <a
href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/apple-removes-game-about-growing-marijuana-from-app-store/1100-6419864/">banned
-a game about growing marijuana</a>, while permitting games about other
-crimes such as killing people. Perhaps Apple considers killing more
-acceptable than marijuana.</p>
-
-<p>Here is an article about
-the <a
href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/">code
-signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p>
+<p>Here is an article about the <a
+href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/">
+code signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p>
<p>Curiously, Apple is beginning to allow limited passage through the
-walls of the the iThing jail: users can now install apps built from
+walls of the iThing jail: users can now install apps built from
source code, provided the source code is written in Swift. Users
-cannot do this freely because they are required to identify themselves.
-<a href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/">Here are
details.</a></p>
+cannot do this freely because they are required to identify
+themselves. <a href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/">Here
+are details</a>. While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not
+big enough to mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
+
+<h4>Examples of censorship by Apple jails</h4>
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>Apple <a
+
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
+ deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>, thus using
+ its own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
+ government.</p>
+ </li>
-<p>While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not big enough to
-mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Apple has banned iThing applications that show the confederate flag.
-<a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html">
-Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism</a>, but even strategic
-games that use it to represent confederate army units fighting in the
-Civil War.</p>
-
-<p>This ludicrous rigidity illustrates the point that Apple should not be
-allowed to censor apps. Even if Apple carried out this act of
-censorship with some care, it would still be wrong. Whether racism is
-bad, whether educating people about drone attacks is bad, are not the
-real issue. Apple should not have the power to impose its views about
-either of these questions, or any other.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
- <p>
- <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans">More
- examples of Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent censorship</a>.
- </p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a
-href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html">Windows
8 on “mobile devices” is a jail.</a></p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Game consoles are jails, too: no game can run on the console unless
-the console's manufacturer has authorized it. Alas, I can't find a
-article to cite as a reference for this fact. Please inform us if you
-know of one.
-</p>
-</li>
+ <li></strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201710130"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple is <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/iranian-hardliners-want-isolated-internet">
+ censoring apps for the US government too</a>. Specifically, it is
+ deleting apps developed by Iranians.</p>
+
+ <p>The root of these wrongs are in Apple. If Apple had not designed
+ the iMonsters to let Apple censor applications, Apple would not have
+ had the power to stop users from installing whatever kind of
apps.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201707290">
+ <p>Apple <a
+
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/technology/china-apple-censorhip.html">
+ deleted several VPNs from its app store for China</a>, thus using its
+ own censorship power to strengthen that of the Chinese
government.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201701064"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple used its censorship system to enforce Russian surveillance
<a
+
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/technology/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0">
+ by blocking distribution of the LinkedIn app in Russia</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This is ironic because LinkedIn is a surveillance system itself.
+ While subjecting its users to its own surveillance, it tries to
+ protect its users from Russian surveillance, and is therefore subject
+ to Russian censorship.</p>
+
+ <p>However, the point here is the wrong of Apple's censorship of
+ apps.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201701050"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple used its censorship system to enforce China's censorship
<a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/05/apple-removes-new-york-times-app-in-china">
+ by blocking distribution of the New York Times app</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201605190"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple censors games, <a
+
href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/apple-says-game-about-palestinian-child-isnt-a-game">
+ banning some games from the cr…app store</a> because of which
+ political points they suggest. Some political points are apparently
+ considered acceptable.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201509290"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple <a
href="http://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/">
+ banned a program from the App Store</a> because its developers
+ committed the enormity of disassembling some iThings.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201509230"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>As of 2015, Apple <a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights">
+ systematically bans apps that endorse abortion rights or would help
+ women find abortions</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>This particular political slant <a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/siri-abortion-apple-unintenional-omissions">
+ affects other Apple services</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201506250"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple has banned iThing
+ applications that show the confederate flag. <a
+
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/apple-confederate-flag_n_7663754.html">
+ Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism</a>, but even
+ strategic games that use it to represent confederate army units
+ fighting in the Civil War.</p>
+
+ <p>This ludicrous rigidity illustrates the point that Apple should
+ not be allowed to censor apps. Even if Apple carried out this act of
+ censorship with some care, it would still be wrong. Whether racism
+ is bad, whether educating people about drone attacks is bad, are not
+ the real issue. Apple should not have the power to impose its views
+ about either of these questions, or any other.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li>
+ <p>Apple rejected an app that displayed the
locations</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201412110">
+ <p><a
+
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans">
+ More examples</em></ins></span> of <span class="removed"><del><strong>US
drone
+ assassinations, giving various excuses. Each time the developers
+ fixed one “problem”, Apple complained about another.
+ After the fifth rejection, Apple <a
+ href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/">
+ admitted it was censoring the app based on the subject
+ matter</a>.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent
censorship</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201405250"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Apple used this censorship power in 2014 to <a
+
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html">
+ ban all bitcoin apps</a> for the iThings for a time. It also <a
+
href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/apple-removes-game-about-growing-marijuana-from-app-store/1100-6419864/">
+ banned a game about growing marijuana</a>, while permitting games
+ about other crimes such as killing people. Perhaps Apple considers
+ killing more acceptable than marijuana.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li>
+ <p><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/papers-please-game-ipad-nude-body-scans">
+ More examples</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201402070">
+ <p>Apple rejected an app that displayed the
locations</em></ins></span>
+ of <span class="removed"><del><strong>Apple's arbitrary and inconsistent
censorship</a>.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>US drone assassinations, giving various excuses. Each
+ time the developers fixed one “problem”, Apple
+ complained about another. After the fifth rejection, Apple <a
+ href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/07/apple-app-tracks-drone-strikes/">
+ admitted it was censoring the app based on the subject
matter</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
</ul>
+
+<h3 id="microsoft">Microsoft jails</h3>
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><ul>
+ <li></strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201706130"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>Windows 10 S was a jail: <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison">
+ only programs from the Windows Store could be
+ installed and executed</a>. It was however possible to <a
+
href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15789998/microsoft-windows-10-s-upgrade-windows-10-pro-guide">
+ upgrade to Windows 10 Pro</a>. The successor of Windows
+ 10 S is a special configuration of Windows 10 called <a
+
href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4020089/windows-10-in-s-mode-faq">
+ S mode</a>. The major difference with Windows 10 S is that there is
+ an easy way to switch out of S <span
class="removed"><del><strong>mode.</p></li>
+
+ <li></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>mode.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201210080"></em></ins></span>
+ <p><a
+
href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2832657/operating-systems/microsoft-metro-app-store-lock-down.html">
+ Windows 8 on “mobile devices” (now defunct) was a
+ <span
class="removed"><del><strong>jail</a>.</p></li></strong></del></span>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em>jail</a>.</p>
+ </li></em></ins></span>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3 id="consoles">Game consoles</h3>
+
+<p>No game can run on the console unless the console's manufacturer
+has authorized it. Alas, I can't find a article to cite as a reference
+for this fact. Please inform us if you know of one.</p>
+
+
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There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 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>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative
+Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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-$Date: 2017/09/29 05:59:41 $
+$Date: 2018/11/27 19:58:06 $
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@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@
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-<!-- Parent-Version: <span
class="removed"><del><strong>1.77</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>1.79</em></ins></span> -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><!--
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Please do not edit lists with items such as <li id="Mnnnnnnnn">!
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--></em></ins></span>
<title>Proprietary Tyrants - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-tyrants.translist" -->
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@@ -19,12 +24,13 @@
<a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary
malware</a>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is
very often malware (designed to
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><div class="comment"></em></ins></span>
+<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></em></ins></span>
+detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p>
<p>A <em>tyrant</em> device is one that refuses to allow
users to
install a different operating system or a modified operating
@@ -33,25 +39,91 @@
refer to this practice as <em>tivoization</em>.
</p>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><div class="important"></em></ins></span>
+<p>If you know of an example that ought to be in this page but isn't
+here, please write
+to <a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>
+to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two
+to <span class="removed"><del><strong>present</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>serve as specific substantiation.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-tyrants"></div>
+
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201607150">
+ <p>Microsoft accidentally left a way for users
+ to install GNU/Linux on Windows RT tablets, but now it has <a
+
href="http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2016/07/15/microsoft-silently-kills-dev-backdoor-boots-linux-locked-windows-rt-slabs/">
+ “fixed”</em></ins></span> the <span
class="removed"><del><strong>specifics.</p>
+
<ul>
- <li><p>Apple
- arbitrarily <a
href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/">blocks
+<li>
+<p>Some LG TVs</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>“error”</a>. They have the gall
+ to call this “protecting” the users. The article talks
+ of installing “Linux”, but the context shows it is
really</em></ins></span>
+ <a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Achievements">are
tyrants</a>.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a>
that users install.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><li><a
+href="http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/SamyGO_for_DUMMIES#What_are_Restricted_Firmwares.3F">
+Samsung</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201412010">
+ <p>Apple arbitrarily <a
+
href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/">blocks
+ users from installing old versions of iOS</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201403150">
+ <p><a
href="http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/15/1912255">
+ Intel processors will have tyrant software built in</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201304080">
+ <p>Motorola, then owned by Google, made <a
+
href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html">
+ Android phones that are tyrants</a> (though someone found a way to
+ crack the restriction). Fortunately, most Android devices are not
+ tyrants.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201212180">
+ <p>Samsung</em></ins></span> “Smart” TVs have <span
class="inserted"><ins><em><a
+
href="https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php?title=SamyGO_for_DUMMIES#What_are_Restricted_Firmwares.3F"></em></ins></span>
+ turned Linux into the base for a tyrant system</a> so as to impose
+ DRM. What enables Samsung to do this is that Linux is released
+ under GNU GPL version 2, <a
+ href="/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html">not version 3</a>, together
with
+ a weak interpretation of GPL version <span
class="removed"><del><strong>2.</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>2.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+ <span class="removed"><del><strong><li><p>Apple
+ arbitrarily</strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201210020">
+ <p>Some LG TVs</em></ins></span> <a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/12/01/ios-8-1-signing-window-closed/">blocks
users from installing old versions of iOS</a>.
- </p>
+ </p></strong></del></span>
+ <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Achievements">are
+ tyrants</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
</li>
-<li>
-<p>The Apple iThings are tyrant devices. There is a port of Android
-to the iThings, but installing it
-requires <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150721065208/http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status">
finding a
-bug or “exploit”</a> to make it possible to install a
-different system.
-</p>
-</li>
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
-<li>
-<p><a
href="http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/">
-Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants.</a>
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201205280"></em></ins></span>
+ <p>The Apple iThings are tyrant devices. There is a
+ port of Android to the iThings, but installing it requires <a
+
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150721065208/http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status">
+ finding a bug or “exploit”</a> to make it possible to
+ install a different <span class="removed"><del><strong>system.
+</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>system.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201110110"></em></ins></span>
+ <p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/"></strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/"></em></ins></span>
+ Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are <span
class="removed"><del><strong>tyrants.</a>
</p>
</li>
@@ -59,11 +131,14 @@
<p><a
href="http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/04/unlocking-motorola-bootloader.html">
Some Android phones are tyrants</a> (though someone found a way to
crack the restriction). Fortunately, most Android devices are not tyrants.
-</p>
-</li>
+</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>tyrants</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
-<li>
-<p><a href="http://boycottsony.org">The Playstation 3 is a
tyrant</a>.
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><li></strong></del></span>
+
+ <span class="inserted"><ins><em><li id="M201105070"></em></ins></span>
+ <p><a <span
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://boycottsony.org">The</strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/sony">The</em></ins></span>
Playstation
+ 3 is a <span class="removed"><del><strong>tyrant</a>.
</p>
</li>
@@ -73,20 +148,20 @@
</p>
</li>
-<span class="inserted"><ins><em><li>
+<li>
<p>Microsoft accidentally left a way for users to install GNU/Linux
on Windows RT tablets, but now it has <a
href="http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2016/07/15/microsoft-silently-kills-dev-backdoor-boots-linux-locked-windows-rt-slabs/">
-“fixed” the “error”</a>. Those arrogant
-bastards call this “protecting” the users. The article
+“fixed” the “error”</a>. They have the
+gall to call this “protecting” the users. The article
talks of installing “Linux”, but the context shows it is
really <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a> that users
install.
-</p>
-</li></em></ins></span>
-
+</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>tyrant</a>.</p></em></ins></span>
+ </li>
</ul>
+
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-<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 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>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative
+Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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