www/education resisting-proprietary-software.html

[Dora Scilipoti]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Dora Scilipoti <dora>   20/06/15 15:11:39

Modified files:
        education      : resisting-proprietary-software.html 

Log message:
        Add link to EFF and note about 'cloud'.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.8&r2=1.9

Patches:
Index: resisting-proprietary-software.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- resisting-proprietary-software.html 7 Jun 2020 00:03:50 -0000       1.8
+++ resisting-proprietary-software.html 15 Jun 2020 19:11:39 -0000      1.9
@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@
 programs for video conferencing and online communication such as 
 Zoom and Skype, among others.</p>
 
-<p>It's no secret, however, that the companies that distribute these 
-programs use them to collect personal data to profile their users.
+<p>It's no secret, however, that the 
+<a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/student-privacy";>
+companies that distribute these programs use them to collect 
+personal data to profile their users</a><a href="#cloud">(1)</a>. 
 These data, in turn, can be seized by the State. It is the moral 
 responsability of schools to protect their students from being
 spied on, but if the school fails to do so, students and their 
@@ -82,6 +84,18 @@
 <p>See examples of <a
 href="/education/successful-resistance-against-nonfree-software.html">
 how people are successfully resisting nonfree software</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Footnote</h3>
+<ol>
+ <li id="cloud">The article cited uses the word &ldquo;cloud&rdquo; 
+to refer to computing done on servers owned by third parties.
+The term is too broad, it generalizes about various uses of 
+servers that are totally different from a moral point of view.
+See more about why <a 
+href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.en#CloudComputing">
+the GNU Project strongly recommends not to use that term 
+&ldquo;cloud&rdquo;</a>.</li>
+</ol>
 </div>
 
 </div>
@@ -142,7 +156,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2020/06/07 00:03:50 $
+$Date: 2020/06/15 19:11:39 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>