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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/philosophy right-to-read.html |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 11:17:58 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/07/23 11:17:58
Modified files:
philosophy : right-to-read.html
Log message:
Minor style fixes.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.110&r2=1.111
Patches:
Index: right-to-read.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html,v
retrieving revision 1.110
retrieving revision 1.111
diff -u -b -r1.110 -r1.111
--- right-to-read.html 19 May 2019 18:30:58 -0000 1.110
+++ right-to-read.html 23 Jul 2019 15:17:56 -0000 1.111
@@ -3,43 +3,66 @@
<title>The Right to Read
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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font-style: italic;
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}
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font-style: normal;
}
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- margin: 2em 0;
+ text-align: center;
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+ border-right: .3em solid #fc7;
+ margin: 2.5em 0;
}
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margin: 0;
}
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+ margin: 1em 0;
}
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- margin: .5em 3%;
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background: #f7f7f7;
border-color: #e74c3c;
}
+#AuthorsNote p.emph-box {
+ margin: 1em 6%;
+}
+#BadNews p.emph-box {
+ margin: 2.5em 6% 1em;
+}
+#References {
+ margin: 3em 0 2em;
+}
+#References h3 {
+ font-size: 1.2em;
+}
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#AuthorsNote .columns > p:first-child,
#AuthorsNote li p.inline-block {
margin-top: 0;
}
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- margin: .5em 6%;
+ .comment { text-align: center; }
+ .table { display: table; }
+ .table-cell {
+ display: table-cell;
+ width: 50%;
+ vertical-align: middle;
}
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+ .right { padding-left: .75em; }
+ }
+}-->
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<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/right-to-read.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2 class="center">The Right to Read</h2>
@@ -53,7 +76,7 @@
<hr class="thin" />
<div class="article">
-<blockquote class="center"><p>
+<blockquote class="center comment"><p>
From <cite>The Road To Tycho</cite>, a collection of
articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian
Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096.
@@ -208,7 +231,7 @@
<ul class="no-bullet">
<li>
-<div class="columns">
+<div class="reduced-width">
<p>This story is supposedly a historical article that will be written in
the future by someone else, describing Dan Halbert's youth under a
repressive society shaped by the unjust forces that use “pirate” as
@@ -238,10 +261,9 @@
</li>
</ul>
-<blockquote class="center">
-<p>The following note has been updated several times since the first
+<p class="comment">
+The following note has been updated several times since the first
publication of the story.</p>
-</blockquote>
<ul class="no-bullet">
<li>
@@ -287,15 +309,17 @@
</li>
<li>
-<div class="columns">
+<div class="table">
+<div class="table-cell left">
<p class="emph-box">
Nonfree software tends to have <a href="/proprietary/">abusive
features of many kinds</a>, which lead to the conclusion that
<a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">you can
never trust a nonfree program</a>. We must insist on free (libre)
software only, and reject nonfree programs.</p>
+</div>
-<p class="inline-block">
+<p class="table-cell right">
With Windows Vista, Microsoft admitted it had built in a back door:
Microsoft can use it to forcibly install software
“upgrades,” even if users consider them rather to be
@@ -395,14 +419,15 @@
<div class="column-limit"></div>
</div>
-<h3 id="BadNews">Bad News</h3>
+<div id="BadNews">
+<h3>Bad News</h3>
-<div class="columns">
-<p>
+<p class="reduced-width">
The battle for the right to read is going against us so far.
The enemy is organized, and we are not.
</p>
+<div class="columns">
<p>Today's commercial
e-books <a href="/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html"> abolish
readers' traditional freedoms</a>. Amazon's e-book reader product,
@@ -423,7 +448,7 @@
<li><p>It has DRM, which is intended to block users from
sharing copies.</p></li>
-<li><p class="inline-block">It has a back door with which Amazon can remotely
erase any book.
+<li><p>It has a back door with which Amazon can remotely erase any book.
In 2009, it erased thousands of copies of 1984, by George Orwell.</p></li>
<li><p class="inline-block">In case all that isn't Orwellian enough, there is
a universal
@@ -440,7 +465,8 @@
place. Therefore, I refuse to agree to such contracts, whether for
software, for e-books, for music, or for anything else.</p>
-<p>If we want to stop the bad news and create some good news, we need
+<p class="emph-box">
+If we want to stop the bad news and create some good news, we need
to organize and fight. Subscribe to the
FSF's <a href="http://defectivebydesign.org"> Defective by Design</a>
campaign to lend a hand. You
@@ -449,10 +475,12 @@
to participate in our work</a>.
</p>
</div>
+</div>
<div class="column-limit"></div>
</div>
-<h3 id="References" style="font-size: 1.2em">References</h3>
+<div id="References">
+<h3>References</h3>
<ul>
<li>The administration's “White Paper”: Information
@@ -476,6 +504,7 @@
Domain</a>—an organization which aims to resist and
reverse the overextension of copyright and patent powers.</li>
</ul>
+</div>
<hr class="thin" />
<blockquote id="fsfs"><p class="big">This essay is published
@@ -540,7 +569,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/05/19 18:30:58 $
+$Date: 2019/07/23 15:17:56 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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