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www/philosophy words-to-avoid.html |
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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:04:49 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/07/21 15:04:49
Modified files:
philosophy : words-to-avoid.html
Log message:
Add breadcrumb, update to boilerplate 1.96, reduce line width;
http > https; restyle the word list.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.267&r2=1.268
Patches:
Index: words-to-avoid.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.267
retrieving revision 1.268
diff -u -b -r1.267 -r1.268
--- words-to-avoid.html 31 May 2021 03:39:16 -0000 1.267
+++ words-to-avoid.html 21 Jul 2021 19:04:48 -0000 1.268
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.90 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="term" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
+#word-list a { line-height: 1.8em; text-decoration: none; }
+-->
+</style>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/words-to-avoid.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="reduced-width">
<h2>Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing</h2>
+<div class="thin"></div>
<p>
There are a number of words and phrases that we recommend avoiding, or
@@ -12,13 +24,7 @@
misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that we disagree with, and
we hope you disagree with it too.</p>
-<div class="announcement">
-<blockquote><p>Also note <a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of
Free
-Software</a>,
-<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Why Call It The
-Swindle?</a></p></blockquote>
-</div>
-
+<div id="word-list" class="emph-box">
<p><span class="gnun-split"></span><!-- GNUN-SORT-START --> “<a
href="#Ad-blocker">Ad-blocker</a>”
|<span class="gnun-split"></span><!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM --> “<a
@@ -136,6 +142,16 @@
|<span class="gnun-split"></span><!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM --> “<a
href="#Vendor">Vendor</a>”
<span class="gnun-split"></span><!-- GNUN-SORT-STOP --></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="no-display" />
+<div class="announcement">
+<p>Also note <a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free
+Software</a>,
+<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Why Call It The
+Swindle?</a></p>
+</div>
+<hr class="no-display" />
<!-- GNUN-SORT-START -->
<!-- GNUN-SORT-BEGIN-KEY -->
@@ -287,7 +303,7 @@
One of the many meanings of “cloud computing” is storing
your data in online services. In most scenarios, that is foolish
because it exposes you to
-<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/hackers-spooks-cloud-antiauthoritarian-dream";>surveillance</a>.
+<a
href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/hackers-spooks-cloud-antiauthoritarian-dream";>surveillance</a>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -329,7 +345,7 @@
<p>
Curiously, Larry Ellison, a proprietary software developer,
-also <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/oracles-ellison-nails-cloud-computing/";>
+also <a
href="https://www.cnet.com/news/oracles-ellison-nails-cloud-computing/";>
noted the vacuity of the term “cloud computing.”</a> He
decided to use the term anyway because, as a proprietary software
developer, he isn't motivated by the same ideals as we are.
@@ -417,14 +433,14 @@
or the accountant of a publishing company. It is no surprise that
proprietary software would like you to think of the use of software as
a commodity. Their twisted viewpoint comes through clearly
-in <a
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-launches-sourcepoint-with-10-million-series-a-funding-2015-6";>this
+in <a
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-launches-sourcepoint-with-10-million-series-a-funding-2015-6";>this
article</a>, which also refers to publications as
“<a href="#Content">content</a>.”</p>
<p>
The narrow thinking associated with the idea that we “consume
content” paves the way for laws such as the DMCA that forbid
-users to break the <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/";>Digital
+users to break the <a href="https://DefectiveByDesign.org/";>Digital
Restrictions Management</a> (DRM) facilities in digital devices. If
users think what they do with these devices is “consume,”
they may see such restrictions as natural.</p>
@@ -491,7 +507,7 @@
“citizens,” rather than “consumers.”</p>
<p>
This problem with the word “consumer” has
-been <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/capitalism-language-raymond-williams";>noted
before</a>.
+been <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/11/capitalism-language-raymond-williams";>noted
before</a>.
</p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM -->
@@ -633,7 +649,7 @@
locks, and their keys or codes as well; you may find them useful or
troublesome, but they don't oppress you, because you can open and
close them. Likewise, we
-find <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/01/encryption-wont-work-if-it-has-a-back-door-only-the-good-guys-have-keys-to-";>encryption</a>
+find <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/01/encryption-wont-work-if-it-has-a-back-door-only-the-good-guys-have-keys-to-";>encryption</a>
invaluable for protecting our digital files. That too is a kind
of digital lock that you have control over.</p>
<p>
@@ -665,7 +681,7 @@
Good alternatives include “Digital Restrictions
Management,” and “digital handcuffs.”</p>
<p>
-Please sign up to support our <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/";>
+Please sign up to support our <a href="https://DefectiveByDesign.org/";>
campaign to abolish DRM</a>.</p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM -->
@@ -814,7 +830,7 @@
<!-- GNUN-SORT-END-KEY -->
<p>
A hacker is someone
-who <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";> enjoys
+who <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";> enjoys
playful cleverness</a>—not necessarily with computers. The
programmers in the old
<abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr> free
@@ -871,7 +887,7 @@
<p>
Experience shows that these products often do
<a
-href="http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2015/09/cory-doctorow-what-if-people-were-sensors-not-things-to-be-sensed/";>
+href="https://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2015/09/cory-doctorow-what-if-people-were-sensors-not-things-to-be-sensed/";>
spy on their users</a>. They are also tailor-made for
<a href="https://archive.ieet.org/articles/rinesi20150806.html";>giving
people biased advice</a>. In addition, the manufacturer can <a
@@ -1045,7 +1061,7 @@
any kind of photo manipulation or image editing in general. Photoshop
is just the name of one particular image editing program, which should
be avoided since it is proprietary. There are plenty of free programs
-for editing images, such as the <a href="/software/gimp">GIMP</a>.</p>
+for editing images, such as the <a href="https://www.gimp.org/";>GIMP</a>.</p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM -->
<!-- GNUN-SORT-BEGIN-KEY -->
@@ -1072,7 +1088,7 @@
<p>
A US judge, presiding over a trial for copyright infringement,
recognized that
-<a
href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-theft-terms-in-hotfile-trial-131129/";>“piracy”
+<a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-theft-terms-in-hotfile-trial-131129/";>“piracy”
and “theft” are smear words.</a></p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM -->
@@ -1133,7 +1149,7 @@
obstruction. So we could call that malicious feature “copy
obstruction.” More often it is called Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM)—see the
-<a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org";> Defective by Design</a>
+<a href="https://DefectiveByDesign.org";> Defective by Design</a>
campaign.</p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM -->
@@ -1317,13 +1333,13 @@
<p>
Under the US legal system, copyright infringement is not theft.
<a
-href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=473&invol=207";>
+href="https://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=473&invol=207";>
Laws about theft are not applicable to copyright infringement.</a>
The supporters of repressive copyright are making an appeal to
authority—and misrepresenting what authority says.</p>
<p>
To refute them, you can point to this
-<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/04/harper-lee-kill-mockingbird-copyright";>
+<a
href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/04/harper-lee-kill-mockingbird-copyright";>
real case</a> which shows what can properly be described as
“copyright theft.”</p>
<p>
@@ -1337,7 +1353,7 @@
<p>
A US judge, presiding over a trial for copyright infringement,
recognized that
-<a
href="http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-theft-terms-in-hotfile-trial-131129/";>“piracy”
+<a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-banned-from-using-piracy-and-theft-terms-in-hotfile-trial-131129/";>“piracy”
and “theft” are smear-words.</a></p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-NEXT-ITEM -->
@@ -1368,15 +1384,16 @@
</p>
<!-- GNUN-SORT-STOP -->
-<hr />
-<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>This essay is published
-in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/";><cite>Free
+<hr class="thin" />
+<p id="fsfs">This essay is published in
+<a href="https://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/";><cite>Free
Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard
-M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></blockquote>
+M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -1394,13 +1411,13 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -1421,8 +1438,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007,
-2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1996-2018, 2020, 2021 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
@@ -1432,7 +1448,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/05/31 03:39:16 $
+$Date: 2021/07/21 19:04:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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