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CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/08/28 09:31:10
Modified files:
philosophy : privacyaction.html right-to-read.html
software-literary-patents.html
software-patents.html stophr3028.html
surveillance-vs-democracy.html
the-danger-of-ebooks.html udi.html
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* Add breadcrumb; use byline class; update to boilerplate 1.96;
only list copyrightable years.
* As needed: move pub info to the bottom; update links; http > https;
comma/period before end quote; use edu-note style for #fsfs;
minor style changes.
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Index: privacyaction.html
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retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- privacyaction.html 15 Dec 2018 14:02:38 -0000 1.23
+++ privacyaction.html 28 Aug 2021 13:31:08 -0000 1.24
@@ -1,15 +1,25 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural evils" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Protect Postal Privacy
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/privacyaction.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!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--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>Protect Postal Privacy</h2>
-<p>
-The following information was written by Kathleen Ellis. The Free
+<address class="byline">by Kathleen Ellis</address>
+
+<div class="comment">
+<p>The Free
Software Foundation does not lead this campaign, but we support it by
spreading the word and hope that you do too.</p>
+</div>
<h3>Background</h3>
<p>
@@ -20,7 +30,7 @@
anonymous mail transactions, and could put millions of CMRA
customers in danger. Any CMRA or CMRA customer who refuses to
comply with this regulation would effectively lose their right to
-recieve mail.</p>
+receive mail.</p>
<p>
The proposed regulation (published in the Federal Register on March
25, 1999) requires that CMRAs collect names, home addresses,
@@ -38,7 +48,7 @@
serve as a deterrent to criminals. “It will be a simple process
for those with financial means to rent homes, apartments, office
space, or the executive suites available in most major metropolitan
-areas”, says Postal Watch's website.</p>
+area,” says Postal Watch's website.</p>
<p>
Congressman Ron Paul has introduced House Joint Resolution 55, which
would effectively revoke the Postal Service's new regulations
@@ -65,14 +75,15 @@
For further information, see the following web pages:
<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.privacy.org/";>Privacy.org</a></li>
+ <li>Privacy.org [in 2021: <a href="https://www.epic.org/";>epic.org</a>]</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-joint-resolution/55";>
- H.J.Res.55 – 106th Congress</a></li>
+ H.J.Res.55—106th Congress</a></li>
</ul>
+</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
@@ -90,13 +101,13 @@
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>
@@ -117,8 +128,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2018 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1996 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
@@ -128,7 +138,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:38 $
+$Date: 2021/08/28 13:31:08 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
Index: right-to-read.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html,v
retrieving revision 1.116
retrieving revision 1.117
diff -u -b -r1.116 -r1.117
--- right-to-read.html 26 Oct 2020 13:08:00 -0000 1.116
+++ right-to-read.html 28 Aug 2021 13:31:08 -0000 1.117
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
<!--#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="essays cultural access" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>The Right to Read
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
-blockquote, .comment {
- font-style: italic;
-}
-blockquote cite {
- font-style: normal;
-}
.announcement {
text-align: center;
+ box-sizing: border-box;
background: #f5f5f5;
- border-left: .3em solid #fc7;
- border-right: .3em solid #fc7;
- margin: 2.5em 0;
+ border-left: .4em solid #5c5;
+ border-right: .4em solid #5c5;
+ border-top: .1em solid #5c5;
+ border-bottom: .1em solid #5c5;
+ margin: 2.5em auto;
}
#AuthorsNote ul, #AuthorsNote li {
margin: 0;
@@ -39,18 +39,10 @@
#BadNews p.emph-box {
margin: 2.5em 6% 1em;
}
-#References {
- margin: 3em 0 2em;
-}
-#References h3 {
- font-size: 1.2em;
-}
@media (min-width: 55em) {
#AuthorsNote .columns > p:first-child,
- #AuthorsNote li p.inline-block {
- margin-top: 0;
- }
- .comment { text-align: center; }
+ #AuthorsNote li p.inline-block { margin-top: 0; }
+ .update { font-style: italic; text-align: center; }
.table { display: table; }
.table-cell {
display: table-cell;
@@ -59,35 +51,32 @@
}
.left { padding-right: .75em; }
.right { padding-left: .75em; }
- }
}-->
<!--#if expr="$LANGUAGE_SUFFIX = /[.](ar|fa|he)/" -->
<!--
@media (min-width: 55em) {
- .left { padding-left: .75em; }
- .right { padding-right: .75em; }
- }
+ .left { padding-left: .75em; padding-right: 0; }
+ .right { padding-right: .75em; padding-left: 0; }
}-->
<!--#endif -->
</style>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/right-to-read.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="article">
<h2 class="center">The Right to Read</h2>
<address class="byline center">
-by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
-<p class="center">
-<em>This article appeared in the February 1997 issue
-of <cite>Communications of the ACM</cite> (Volume 40, Number
-2).</em></p>
-<hr class="thin" />
+by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
-<div class="article">
-<blockquote class="center comment"><p>
+<p class="infobox c">
From <cite>The Road To Tycho</cite>, a collection of
articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian
Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096.
-</p></blockquote>
+</p>
+<hr class="thin" />
<div class="columns">
<p>
@@ -227,10 +216,11 @@
universal right to read soon became one of its central aims.</p>
</div>
-<div class="reduced-width">
-<blockquote class="announcement">
-<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html";>Join our mailing list
about the dangers of e-books</a>.</p>
-</blockquote>
+<div class="announcement reduced-width comment" role="complementary">
+<hr class="no-display" />
+<p><a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html";>
+Join our mailing list about the dangers of e-books</a>.</p>
+<hr class="no-display" />
</div>
<div id="AuthorsNote">
@@ -255,9 +245,9 @@
<div class="reduced-width">
<p>Computer-enforced restrictions on lending or reading books (and other
kinds of published works) are known as DRM, short for
-“Digital Restrictions Management”. To
+“Digital Restrictions Management.” To
eliminate DRM, the Free Software Foundation has
-established the <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org";>Defective by
+established the <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/";>Defective by
Design</a> campaign. We ask for your support.</p>
<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a separate organization not
@@ -268,7 +258,7 @@
</li>
</ul>
-<p class="comment">
+<p class="update">
The following note has been updated several times since the first
publication of the story.</p>
@@ -348,8 +338,8 @@
<p>
The proponents of this scheme gave early versions names such as
-“trusted computing” and “Palladium”, but as
-ultimately put into use, it is called “secure boot”.</p>
+“trusted computing” and “Palladium,” but as
+ultimately put into use, it is called “secure boot.”</p>
<p>
What Microsoft keeps is not exactly a password in the traditional
@@ -475,19 +465,17 @@
<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>
+FSF's <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/";> Defective by Design</a>
campaign to lend a hand. You
-can <a href="http://www.fsf.org/associate";>join the FSF</a> to support
+can <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate";>join the FSF</a> to support
our work more generally. There is also a <a href="/help/help.html">list of
ways
to participate in our work</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="column-limit"></div>
-</div>
-<div id="References">
-<h3>References</h3>
+<h3 class="footnote">References</h3>
<ul>
<li>The administration's “White Paper”: Information
@@ -496,32 +484,37 @@
National Information Infrastructure: The Report of the Working
Group on Intellectual Property [sic] Rights (1995).</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper_pr.html";>An
+ <li><a href="https://www.wired.com/1996/01/white-paper/";>An
explanation of the White Paper:
The Copyright Grab</a>, Pamela Samuelson, <cite>Wired</cite>,
January 1st, 1996.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/sold_out.htm";>Sold Out</a>,
+ <li><a href="https://law.duke.edu/boylesite/sold_out.htm";>Sold Out</a>,
James Boyle, <cite>New York Times</cite>, March 31, 1996.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130508120533/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199611/msg00012.html";>Public
Data or Private Data</a>,
+ <li><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130508120533/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199611/msg00012.html";>Public
Data or Private Data</a>,
Dave Farber, <cite>Washington Post</cite>, November 4, 1996.</li>
<li><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151113122141/http://public-domain.org/";>Union
for the Public
Domain</a>—an organization which aims to resist and
reverse the overextension of copyright and patent powers.</li>
</ul>
+
+<div class="infobox extra">
+<hr />
+<p>This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of <cite>Communications
+of the ACM</cite> (Volume 40, Number 2).</p>
</div>
-<hr class="thin" />
-<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>This essay is published
-in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/";><cite>Free
+<div class="edu-note c"><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>
</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
@@ -539,13 +532,13 @@
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>
@@ -566,7 +559,8 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1996, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020
Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1996, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021
+Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -576,10 +570,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2020/10/26 13:08:00 $
+$Date: 2021/08/28 13:31:08 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: software-literary-patents.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html,v
retrieving revision 1.35
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -b -r1.35 -r1.36
--- software-literary-patents.html 26 Oct 2020 13:25:22 -0000 1.35
+++ software-literary-patents.html 28 Aug 2021 13:31:08 -0000 1.36
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws patents" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Software Patents and Literary Patents - GNU Project -
Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/software-literary-patents.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="article reduced-width">
<h2>Software Patents and Literary Patents</h2>
-<p>by <strong><a href="http://stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></strong></p>
-
-<p>
-<em>The first version of this article was published in
-<cite>The Guardian</cite>, of London, on June 23, 2005. It focused on
-the proposed European software patent directive.</em></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>
When politicians consider the question of software patents, they are
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@
</ul>
<p>
-through the name “Jean Valjean”, but at least this patent
+through the name “Jean Valjean,” but at least this patent
would have been easy to avoid.
</p>
@@ -212,15 +215,22 @@
blocked, the result will be to put all software developers in danger.
</p>
+<div class="infobox extra">
<hr />
-<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>This essay is published
-in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/";><cite>Free
+<p>The first version of this article was published in
+<cite>The Guardian</cite>, of London, on June 23, 2005. It focused on
+the proposed European software patent directive.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="edu-note c"><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>
</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
@@ -238,13 +248,13 @@
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>
@@ -265,7 +275,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2005, 2007, 2008, 2020 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2005, 2009 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -275,10 +285,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2020/10/26 13:25:22 $
+$Date: 2021/08/28 13:31:08 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
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--- software-patents.html 26 Oct 2020 13:08:00 -0000 1.46
+++ software-patents.html 28 Aug 2021 13:31:08 -0000 1.47
@@ -1,27 +1,32 @@
<!--#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="speeches" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Software Patents - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/software-patents.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="article reduced-width">
<h2>Software patents — Obstacles to software development</h2>
-<p>by <strong>Richard Stallman</strong></p>
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
-<p>
-<i>
-This is the transcription of a talk presented by Richard M. Stallman on
+<div class="infobox">
+<p>This is the transcription of a talk presented by Richard M. Stallman on
March 25, 2002, at the University of Cambridge
-<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/";>Computer Laboratory</a>,
-organized by the <a href="http://www.fipr.org/";>Foundation for Information
-Policy Research</a>. Transcript and
-<a href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#patent-cambridge-2002-03-25";>
-audio recording</a> by Nicholas Hill. HTML editing and links by Markus
-Kuhn. The original version is hosted at
-<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html";>
-http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html</a>.
-</i>
-</p>
-
+<a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/";>Computer Laboratory</a>,
+organized by the <a href="https://www.fipr.org/";>Foundation for Information
+Policy Research</a>.</p>
+<p>Transcript (<a
+href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html";>original
+version</a>) and <a
+href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#patent-cambridge-2002-03-25">audio
+recording</a> by Nicholas Hill. HTML editing and links by Markus Kuhn.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="thin" />
<p>
You might have been familiar with my work on
@@ -47,8 +52,8 @@
<p>
You may have heard people using a misleading term
-“<a href="http://www.wipo.org/about-ip/en/";>Intellectual
-Property</a>”. This term, as you can see, is biased. It makes
+“<a href="https://www.wipo.org/about-ip/en/";>Intellectual
+Property</a>.” This term, as you can see, is biased. It makes
an assumption that whatever it is you are talking about, the way to
treat it is as a kind of property, which is one among many
alternatives. This term “Intellectual Property”
@@ -72,7 +77,7 @@
you try to think about them by lumping them together, you are
guaranteed to come to foolish conclusions. There is literally no
sensible intelligent opinion you can have about “Intellectual
-Property”. If you want to think clearly, don't lump them
+Property.” If you want to think clearly, don't lump them
together. Think about copyrights and then think about patents. Learn
about copyright law and separately learn about patent law.
</p>
@@ -132,7 +137,7 @@
what it would be like for you to get a patent. What it would be like
for you to be walking down the street with a patent in your pocket so
that every so often you can pull it out and point it out at somebody
-and say “Give Me Your Money!”. There is a reason for this
+and say “Give Me Your Money!” There is a reason for this
bias, which is that most of the people who will tell you about this
patent system have a stake in it, so they want you like it.
</p>
@@ -233,16 +238,16 @@
of the things they cited was that engineers don't try reading patents
to learn anything, as it is too hard to understand them. They quoted
one engineer saying “I can't recognize my own inventions in
-patenteese”.
+patenteese.”
</p>
<p>
This is not just theoretical. Around 1990, a programmer named
-<a href="http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv2n3/hypercard.html";>Paul
+<a href="https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv2n3/hypercard.html";>Paul
Heckel</a> sued Apple claiming that Hypercard infringed a couple of
his <a href="https://patents.justia.com/patent/4486857";>patents</a>.
When he first saw Hypercard, he didn't think it had anything to do
-with his patent, with his “Inventions”. It didn't look
+with his patent, with his “Inventions.” It didn't look
similar. When his lawyer told him that you could read the patents as
covering part of Hypercard, he decided to attack Apple.
<span class="gnun-split"></span>When I had a
@@ -257,7 +262,7 @@
are sure to lose, If you do something here, there is a substantial
chance of losing, and if you really want to be safe, stay out of this
area. And, by the way, there is a sizable element of chance in the
-outcome of any law suit”.
+outcome of any law suit.”
</p>
<p>
@@ -365,7 +370,7 @@
happened to have the weekly patent column in it. I didn't see a copy
of the Times more than once every few months. So I looked at it and
it said that somebody had got a patent for “Inventing a new
-method of compressing data”.
+method of compressing data.”
<span class="gnun-split"></span>I figured I better take a look at
this patent. I got a copy and it turned out to cover the program that
we were just a week away from releasing. That program died before it
@@ -382,13 +387,13 @@
make an image that people could display with their software, it turned
out extremely hard to switch over to a different algorithm. We have
not been able to do it in 10 years! Yes, people use the gzip
-algorithm to define <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/";>another
+algorithm to define <a href="https://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/";>another
image format</a>, once people started getting threatened with law
suits for using GIF files. When we started saying to people stop
using GIF files, switch over to this, people said “We can't
-switch. The browsers don't support the new format yet”. The
+switch. The browsers don't support the new format yet.” The
browser developers said “We're not in a hurry about this. After
-all, nobody is using this file format”.
+all, nobody is using this file format.”
</p>
<p>
@@ -439,7 +444,7 @@
if that format or protocol is patented, that is a real disaster for
you. There are even official standards that are restricted by
patents. There was a big political uproar last September when the
-<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/patent-practice";>World Wide Web
+<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/patent-practice/";>World Wide Web
Consortium</a> was proposing to start adopting standards that were
covered by patents. The community objected so they reversed
themselves.
@@ -542,13 +547,13 @@
<p>
This phenomenon of cross-licensing refutes a common myth, the myth of
the starving genius. The myth that patents “protect” the
-“small inventor”. Those terms are propaganda terms. You
+“small inventor.” Those terms are propaganda terms. You
shouldn't use them. The scenario is like this: Suppose there is a
brilliant designer of whatever of whatever. Suppose he has spent
years starving in the attic designing a new wonderful kind of whatever
and now wants to manufacture it and isn't it a shame the big companies
are going to go into competition with him, take away all the business
-and he'll “starve”.
+and he'll “starve.”
<span class="gnun-split"></span>I will have to point out that people
in high tech fields are not generally working on their own and that
ideas don't come in a vacuum, they are based on ideas of others and
@@ -568,7 +573,7 @@
against all of them in court, I will just go back and find some more.
So, why don't you cross license with me?” And then this
brilliant small inventor says “Well, OK, I'll cross
-license”. So he can go back and make these wonderful whatever
+license.” So he can go back and make these wonderful whatever
it is, but so can IBM. IBM gets access to his patent and gets the
right to compete with him, which means that this patent didn't
“protect” him at all. The patent system doesn't really do
@@ -666,7 +671,7 @@
obvious</a>! Patent bureaucrats have all sorts of excuses to
justify ignoring what programmers think. They say “Oh! But you
have to consider it in terms of the way things were 10 or 20 years
-ago”. Then they discovered that if they talk something to death
+ago.” Then they discovered that if they talk something to death
then you can eventually lose your bearings. Anything can look
unobvious if you tear it apart enough, analyze it enough. You simply
lose all standard of obviousness or at least lose the ability to
@@ -741,7 +746,7 @@
bluff them away by showing them the prior art. It depends upon
whether they can get scared off that way or they might think
“well, you are just bluffing, we figure you can't really go to
-court, you can't afford it so we'll sue you anyway”.
+court, you can't afford it so we'll sue you anyway.”
</p>
<p>
@@ -759,7 +764,7 @@
<p>
Now, people used to say to me, “Well, there are patents in other
-fields, why should software be exempt?”. Note the bizarre
+fields, why should software be exempt?.” Note the bizarre
assumption in there that somehow we are all supposed to suffer through
the patent system. It is like saying “Some people get cancer.
Why should you be exempt?” As I see it, each person who doesn't
@@ -786,7 +791,7 @@
<p>
That fits in with the naive idea of the patent system that we have,
that if you are designing a new product, you are going to get
-“The Patent”. The idea that there is one patent per
+“The Patent.” The idea that there is one patent per
product and that it covers the idea of that product. In some fields
it is closer to being true. In other fields it is further from being
true. This is because software packages are usually very big. They
@@ -819,7 +824,7 @@
<span class="gnun-split"></span>You see, the advocates of software patents say
“well yes, there may be problems but more important than any
problems, the patents must promote innovation and that is so important
-it doesn't matter what problems you cause”. Of course, they
+it doesn't matter what problems you cause.” Of course, they
don't say that out loud because it is ridiculous but implicitly they
want you to believe that as long as it promotes progress, that
outweighs any possible cost. But actually, there is no reason to
@@ -945,13 +950,13 @@
<span class="gnun-split"></span>When
you complain about this, the patent holders would say “Ah
Beethoven, you are just bitching because you have no ideas of your
-own. All you want to do is rip off our inventions”. Beethoven,
+own. All you want to do is rip off our inventions.” Beethoven,
as it happens, had a lot of new musical ideas but he had to use a lot
of existing musical ideas in order to make recognizable music. In
order to make music that listeners could possibly like, that they
could recognize as music. Nobody is so brilliant that he can
re-invent music and make something that people would want to listen
-to. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez";>Pierre
+to. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulez";>Pierre
Boulez</a> said he would try to do that, but who listens to Pierre
Boulez?
</p>
@@ -1066,9 +1071,9 @@
particular speed up in progress after 1990. There was no political
debate in the US, but in Europe there has been a big political debate.
Several years ago there was a push to amend the
-Munich treaty that established the <a href="http://www.epo.org/";>
+Munich treaty that established the <a href="https://www.epo.org/";>
European Patent Office</a>. It has a
-<a
href="http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/1973/e/ar52.html";>
+<a
href="https://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/1973/e/ar52.html";>
clause saying that software is not patentable</a>. The push was to
amend that to start allowing software patents. But the community took
notice of this. It was actually free software developers and free
@@ -1144,13 +1149,13 @@
issue which really has nothing to do with software patents except that
it is being handled by the same people. It is a question of
interpreting the recent EU copyright directive, a horrible law like
-the <a href="http://www.eff.org/issues/dmca";>Digital Millennium Copyright
+the <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca";>Digital Millennium Copyright
Act in the US</a>. But there is some latitude for countries to decide
how to implement it. The UK is proposing the most draconian possible
way of implementing this directive. You could greatly reduce the harm
that it does by implementing it properly. The UK wants to maximize
the tyrannical effect of this directive. It seems there is a certain
-group, the <a
href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070603164510/http://www.dti.gov.uk/";>Department
of Trade and
+group, the <a
href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20070603164510/http://www.dti.gov.uk/";>Department
of Trade and
Industry [archived]</a>, who need to be reined in. It is necessary to put a
check on their activities. Stop their creating new forms of power.
</p>
@@ -1176,15 +1181,16 @@
<p>
We need to make management aware of what software patents will do to
them. Get their support
-in <a href="http://www.ffii.org/";>fighting against
+in <a href="https://ffii.org/";>fighting against
software patents in Europe</a>.
</p>
<p>
The battle is not over. It still can be won.
</p>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
-<h3>Footnotes</h3>
+<h3 class="footnote">Footnotes</h3>
<ol>
<li id="f1">There are approximately 300-400 unique parts in an
automatic transmission, and a transmission is generally the most
@@ -1216,15 +1222,16 @@
spread.</li>
</ol>
-<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="no-display" />
+<div class="edu-note c"><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>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
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@@ -1242,13 +1249,13 @@
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
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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>
@@ -1269,7 +1276,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2002, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Richard
Stallman.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2002, 2006 Richard Stallman.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -1279,7 +1286,7 @@
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+$Date: 2021/08/28 13:31:08 $
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@@ -1,28 +1,40 @@
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+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural access" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Stop H.R. 3028
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
+.foreword { margin: 2em 0 2em 15%; color: #444; }
+.foreword p { margin: 0; }
+.foreword p + p { text-align: right; }
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+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Stop H.R. 3028 - Protect the Net - Stop the Trademark Monopolists</h2>
-<p>
-This is posted on behalf of Marc Rotenberg
-<a href="mailto:rotenberg@epic.org";><rotenberg@epic.org></a>.
-More information is available by following the links at the end of
-this page.</p>
+<address class="byline">by Marc Rotenberg <<a
+href="mailto:rotenberg@epic.org";>rotenberg@epic.org</a>></address>
+<blockquote class="foreword">
<p>
-<cite>
This bill fits a pattern: every time Congress wants to create a new
monopoly covering some activity formerly open to all, or extend and
increase an old monopoly, they apply the term “piracy”
to the free activity that the monopoly will stamp out. So whenever
you see anything described as “piracy” aside from the
- capturing of ships, watch out for your liberties! -- Richard
- Stallman
-</cite>
+ capturing of ships, watch out for your liberties!</p>
+ <p>—<i>Richard Stallman</i>
</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p><em>More information is available by following the links at the end of
+this page.</em></p>
<h3>Urgent</h3>
@@ -116,17 +128,18 @@
<h3>Relevant Information</h3>
<ul>
- <li><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3028";>
+ <li><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/3028";>
Information about H.R. 3028, including the Text of the bill</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en";>
Information about the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815221026/http://www.acm.org/usacm/trademark.html";>
Letter from ACM, Legal Experts on Problems with H.R. 3028</a></li>
</ul>
+</div>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
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@@ -144,13 +157,13 @@
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>
@@ -171,7 +184,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1999, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1999, 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
@@ -181,7 +194,7 @@
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@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
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+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural evils" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
@@ -15,22 +17,15 @@
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+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article">
<h2 class="center">How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?</h2>
<address class="byline center">by
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
-<!-- rms: I deleted the link because of Wired's announced
- anti-ad-block system -->
-<blockquote class="center"><p><em>A version of this article was first
published in
-<cite>Wired</cite> in October 2013.<br />
-Also consider reading “<a
-href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance";>A
-radical proposal to keep your personal data safe</a>,” published in
-<cite>The Guardian</cite> in April 2018.</em></p></blockquote>
-
-<div class="article">
-
<div id="intro">
<div class="pict wide">
<a href="/graphics/dog.html">
@@ -87,7 +82,7 @@
or her. We need to go further.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader" style="clear: both">The Upper Limit on Surveillance in a
Democracy</h3>
+<h3 style="clear: both">The Upper Limit on Surveillance in a Democracy</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>If whistleblowers don't dare reveal crimes and lies, we lose the
@@ -120,7 +115,7 @@
spoke to a known journalist or a known dissident.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">Information, Once Collected, Will Be Misused</h3>
+<h3>Information, Once Collected, Will Be Misused</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p id="willbemisused">When people recognize
@@ -206,7 +201,7 @@
that is easily accessible to the state.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">Robust Protection for Privacy Must Be Technical</h3>
+<h3>Robust Protection for Privacy Must Be Technical</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation and other organizations propose
@@ -238,7 +233,7 @@
ignoring this law, the idea would hardly make sense.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">First, Don't Be Foolish</h3>
+<h3>First, Don't Be Foolish</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>To have privacy, you must not throw it away: the first one who has
@@ -283,7 +278,7 @@
suspects.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">We Must Design Every System for Privacy</h3>
+<h3>We Must Design Every System for Privacy</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>If we don't want a total surveillance society, we must consider
@@ -306,7 +301,7 @@
systems [<a href="#ambientprivacy">1</a>].</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">Remedy for Collecting Data: Leaving It Dispersed</h3>
+<h3>Remedy for Collecting Data: Leaving It Dispersed</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p id="dispersal">One way to make monitoring safe for privacy is
@@ -346,7 +341,16 @@
but that is another issue.</p>
</div>
-<h3 id="digitalcash" class="subheader">Remedy for Internet Commerce
Surveillance</h3>
+<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary">
+<hr class="no-display" />
+<p>Also consider reading “<a
+href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance";>A
+radical proposal to keep your personal data safe</a>,” published in
+<cite>The Guardian</cite> in April 2018.</p>
+<hr class="no-display" />
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="digitalcash">Remedy for Internet Commerce Surveillance</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>Most data collection comes from people's own digital activities.
@@ -411,7 +415,7 @@
knows nothing about you.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">Remedy for Travel Surveillance</h3>
+<h3>Remedy for Travel Surveillance</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>We must convert digital toll collection to anonymous payment (using
@@ -471,7 +475,7 @@
borrower's identity immediately.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">Remedy for Communications Dossiers</h3>
+<h3>Remedy for Communications Dossiers</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>Internet service providers and telephone companies keep extensive
@@ -513,7 +517,7 @@
would be hard to determine that you had sent mail to me.</p>
</div>
-<h3 class="subheader">But Some Surveillance Is Necessary</h3>
+<h3>But Some Surveillance Is Necessary</h3>
<div class="columns">
<p>For the state to find criminals, it needs to be able to investigate
@@ -583,6 +587,14 @@
href="https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm";>ambient
privacy</a>.</li>
</ol>
+
+<div class="infobox extra">
+<hr />
+<!-- rms: I deleted the link because of Wired's announced
+ anti-ad-block system -->
+<p>A version of this article was first published in
+<cite>Wired</cite> in October 2013.</p>
+</div>
</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -632,7 +644,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Richard
Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2013-2019, 2021 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -642,7 +654,7 @@
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-$Date: 2021/08/22 14:20:53 $
+$Date: 2021/08/28 13:31:09 $
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- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
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+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>The Danger of E-Books</h2>
-<p class="comment">In an age where business dominates our governments and
writes our laws,
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+
+<p>In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws,
every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new
restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are
used to chain us instead.</p>
@@ -45,7 +54,7 @@
</ul>
<p>Even one of these infringements makes e-books a step backward from
-printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom [<a
href="#footnote2">2</a>].</p>
+printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom [<a
href="#footnote2">1</a>].</p>
<p>The e-book companies say denying our traditional freedoms is
necessary to continue to pay authors. The current copyright system
@@ -56,36 +65,38 @@
<ul>
<li>To distribute tax funds to authors based on the cube root of each
-author's popularity [<a href="#footnote1">1</a>].</li>
+author's popularity [<a href="#footnote1">2</a>].</li>
<li>To design players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary
payments.</li>
</ul>
<p>E-books need not attack our freedom (Project Gutenberg's e-books don't),
but they will if companies get to decide. It's up to us to stop them.</p>
-<blockquote class="announcement">
+<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary">
+<hr class="no-display" />
<p>Join the fight: sign up
-at <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html";>
-http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html</a>.</p>
-</blockquote>
+for <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html";>
+our mailing list about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p>
+<hr class="no-display" />
+</div>
-<div class="column-limit"></div>
-<h3 style="font-size: 1.2em">Footnotes</h3>
+<h3 class="footnote">Footnotes</h3>
<ol>
+<li id="footnote2">[2019] To show our rejection of Amazon's e-book reader,
+we call it <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the
+Swindle</a>.</li>
<li id="footnote1">See both my speech
<a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html">“Copyright
versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks”</a>
and <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html";>my
2012 open letter to the President of the Brazilian Senate</a>, Senator
José Sarney, for more on this.</li>
-<li id="footnote2">[2019] To show our rejection of Amazon's e-book reader,
-we call it <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the
-Swindle</a>.</li>
</ol>
+</div>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -103,13 +114,13 @@
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>
@@ -130,7 +141,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2011, 2015 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -140,10 +151,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/12/30 11:28:30 $
+$Date: 2021/08/28 13:31:09 $
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</body>
</html>
Index: udi.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/udi.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
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--- udi.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:48 -0000 1.21
+++ udi.html 28 Aug 2021 13:31:09 -0000 1.22
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays aboutfs free-nonfree" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>The Free Software Movement and UDI - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
-
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/udi.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="article reduced-width">
<h2>The Free Software Movement and UDI</h2>
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+
<p>
A project called UDI (Uniform Driver Interface) aims to define a
single interface between operating system kernels and device drivers.
@@ -107,12 +113,11 @@
<p>
Still, there is no harm in keeping the door unlocked, as long as we
are careful about who we let in.</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
-
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-
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+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a
@@ -130,29 +135,29 @@
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 of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
</div>
<p>Copyright © 1998 Richard M. Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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