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Félicien PILLOT |
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www/server/staging/proprietary proprietary-obso... |
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Sat, 31 Aug 2019 11:51:33 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Félicien PILLOT <felandral> 19/08/31 11:51:33
Modified files:
server/staging/proprietary: proprietary-obsolescence.html
server/staging/proprietary/workshop: mal.rec
Log message:
Remove items not belonging here, merge two duplicate items (www-discuss
2019-08-31)
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/proprietary/proprietary-obsolescence.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
Patches:
Index: proprietary-obsolescence.html
===================================================================
RCS file:
/web/www/www/server/staging/proprietary/proprietary-obsolescence.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- proprietary-obsolescence.html 22 Aug 2019 16:49:14 -0000 1.4
+++ proprietary-obsolescence.html 31 Aug 2019 15:51:32 -0000 1.5
@@ -47,12 +47,6 @@
<div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-obsolescence"></div>
<ul class="blurbs">
- <li id="M201908150.1">
- <p>Apple is putting DRM on iPhone batteries, and the system proprietary
- software <a href="#M201908150">turns off certain features when batteries
- are replaced other than by Apple.</a></p>
- </li>
-
<li id="M201903250">
<p>The British supermarket Tesco sold tablets which were tethered
to Tesco's server for reinstalling default settings. Tesco <a
@@ -77,58 +71,20 @@
that's the nature of proprietary software.</p>
</li>
- <li id="M201704070">
- <p id="iphone7-sabotage">The
- iPhone 7 contains DRM specifically designed to <a
-
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbjm8e/iphone-7-home-button-unreplaceable-repair-software-lock";>
- brick it if an “unauthorized” repair shop fixes it</a>.
- “Unauthorized” essentially means anyone besides Apple.</p>
-
- <p>The article uses the term “lock”
- to describe the DRM, but we prefer to use the term <a
- href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks"> digital
- handcuffs</a>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M201609200">
- <p>HP's firmware downgrade <a
-
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/hp-inkjet-printers-unofficial-cartridges-software-update";>imposed
- DRM on some printers, which now refuse to function with third-party
- ink cartridges</a>.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M201605150">
- <p>Revolv is an IoT device which managed “smart home”
- operations: switching the lights, operate motion sensors, regulating
- temperature, etc. On May 15th, 2016, Google said it would shut down
- the service linked to the device, making it unusable.</p>
-
- <p>Although you may own the device, its functioning depended
- on the server that never belonged to you. So you never
- really had control of it. This unjust design is called <a
- href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">
- Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)</a>. That is what gave the
- company the power to convert it into a $300 out-of-warranty brick,
- for your “dumb home”.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M201604050">
- <p>Google/Alphabet <a
-
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be";>
- intentionally broke Revolv home automatic control products that
- depended on a server</a> to function, by shutting down the server.
- The lesson is, reject all such products. Insist on self-contained
- computers that run free software!</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M201601310">
- <p>FTDI's proprietary driver
- for its USB-to-serial chips has been designed to <a
-
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/";>sabotage
- alternative compatible chips</a>
- so that they no longer work. Microsoft is <a
-
href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/16/01/31/1720259/ftdi-driver-breaks-hardware-again";>installing
- this automatically</a> as an “upgrade”.</p>
+ <li id="M201605150.1">
+ <p>Revolv is an IoT device which managed “smart
+ home” operations: switching the lights, operate motion sensors,
+ regulating temperature, etc. On May 15th, 2016, Google/Alphabet <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be";>intentionally
+ broke it</a> by shutting down the server.</p>
+
+ <p>Although you may own the device, its functioning depended on the
+ server that never belonged to you. So you never really had control of
+ it. This unjust design is called <a
+ href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">Service
+ as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)</a>. That is what gave the company
+ the power to convert it into a $300 out-of-warranty brick, for your
+ “dumb home”.</p>
</li>
<li id="M201601100">
@@ -153,19 +109,6 @@
Indeed, it is the acceptance of their unjust practice that teaches
people to be doormats.</p>
</li>
-
- <li id="M201503210">
- <p>Amazon <a
-
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150321/13350230396/while-bricking-jailbroken-fire-tvs-last-year-amazon-did-same-to-kindle-devices.shtml";>
- downgraded the software in users' Swindles</a> so that those already
- rooted would cease to function at all.</p>
- </li>
-
- <li id="M201311130">
- <p><a
-
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy";>
- DRM in cars will drive consumers crazy</a>.</p>
- </li>
</ul>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -225,7 +168,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/08/22 16:49:14 $
+$Date: 2019/08/31 15:51:32 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: workshop/mal.rec
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/staging/proprietary/workshop/mal.rec,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- workshop/mal.rec 23 Aug 2019 21:50:13 -0000 1.4
+++ workshop/mal.rec 31 Aug 2019 15:51:33 -0000 1.5
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
RT: www-discuss 2019-08-10 (proprietary-interference.html)
PubDate: 2019-08-15
Target: malware-apple.html drm
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
Keywords: iPhone batteries
Blurb: <p>Apple is putting DRM on iPhone batteries, and the system proprietary
+ software <a href="#M201908150">turns off certain features when batteries
@@ -2619,7 +2618,6 @@
Target: proprietary-drm.html proprietary-drm
Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
Target: malware-apple.html sabotage
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
PubDate: 2017-04-07
Keywords: drm
Blurb: <p id="iphone7-sabotage">The
@@ -3199,7 +3197,6 @@
Target: proprietary-drm.html proprietary-drm
Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
Target: malware-appliances.html malware-appliances
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
PubDate: 2016-09-20
Keywords: hp
Blurb: <p>HP's firmware downgrade <a
@@ -3549,24 +3546,25 @@
+ political points they suggest. Some political points are apparently
+ considered acceptable.</p>
-Id: 201605150
+Id: 201605150.1
Target: malware-google.html sabotage
Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
-PubDate: 2016-05-15
+PubDate: 2019-08-31
Keywords: revolv
-Blurb: <p>Revolv is an IoT device which managed “smart home”
-+ operations: switching the lights, operate motion sensors, regulating
-+ temperature, etc. On May 15th, 2016, Google said it would shut down
-+ the service linked to the device, making it unusable.</p>
-+
-+ <p>Although you may own the device, its functioning depended
-+ on the server that never belonged to you. So you never
-+ really had control of it. This unjust design is called <a
-+ href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">
-+ Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)</a>. That is what gave the
-+ company the power to convert it into a $300 out-of-warranty brick,
-+ for your “dumb home”.</p>
+Blurb: <p>Revolv is an IoT device which managed “smart
++ home” operations: switching the lights, operate motion sensors,
++ regulating temperature, etc. On May 15th, 2016, Google/Alphabet <a
++
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be";>intentionally
++ broke it</a> by shutting down the server.</p>
++
++ <p>Although you may own the device, its functioning depended on the
++ server that never belonged to you. So you never really had control of
++ it. This unjust design is called <a
++ href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">Service
++ as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)</a>. That is what gave the company
++ the power to convert it into a $300 out-of-warranty brick, for your
++ “dumb home”.</p>
Id: 201605044
Target: malware-apple.html incompatibility
@@ -3649,21 +3647,6 @@
+ by watching people through the camera, nor through malware in the
+ camera.</p>
-Id: 201604050
-Target: malware-google.html sabotage
-Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
-Target: malware-appliances.html malware-appliances
-Target: proprietary-tethers.html proprietary-tethers
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
-PubDate: 2016-04-05
-Keywords: revolv
-Blurb: <p>Google/Alphabet <a
-+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/nest-reminds-customers-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-be";>
-+ intentionally broke Revolv home automatic control products that
-+ depended on a server</a> to function, by shutting down the server.
-+ The lesson is, reject all such products. Insist on self-contained
-+ computers that run free software!</p>
-
Id: 201603220
Target: proprietary-surveillance.html SpywareInCameras
Target: malware-appliances.html malware-appliances
@@ -3785,7 +3768,6 @@
Id: 201601310
Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
Target: malware-microsoft.html sabotage
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
PubDate: 2014-10-23
PubDate: 2016-01-31
Keywords: ftdi driver
@@ -4590,7 +4572,6 @@
Id: 201503210
Target: proprietary-sabotage.html proprietary-sabotage
Target: malware-amazon.html back-doors
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
PubDate: 2015-03-21
Keywords:
Blurb: <p>Amazon <a
@@ -5180,7 +5161,6 @@
Id: 201311130
Target: proprietary-drm.html proprietary-drm
Target: malware-cars.html malware-cars
-Target: proprietary-obsolescence.html proprietary-obsolescence
PubDate: 2013-11-13
Keywords:
Blurb: <p><a