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CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/09/19 10:35:29
Modified files:
philosophy : copyright-and-globalization.html
free-software-even-more-important.html
moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html nit-india.html
stallman-mec-india.html
Log message:
No effect on translations: standardize a few more dashes.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.50&r2=1.51
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.52&r2=1.53
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.21&r2=1.22
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/nit-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.19&r2=1.20
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.43&r2=1.44
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Index: copyright-and-globalization.html
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<p>
Now, is this an advantageous trade? Well, when the general public
can't make copies because they can only be efficiently made on
-printing presses—and most people don't own printing presses
-— the result is that the general public is trading away a
+printing presses—and most people don't own printing presses—the
+result is that the general public is trading away a
freedom it is unable to exercise, a freedom that is of no practical
value. So if you have something that is a byproduct of your life and
it's useless and you have the opportunity to exchange it for something
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@
priority. Copyright was easy to enforce because it was a restriction
only on publishers who were easy to find and what they published was
easy to see. Now the copyright is a restriction on each and everyone
-of you. To enforce it requires surveillance—an intrusion
-— and harsh punishments, and we are seeing these being enacted
+of you. To enforce it requires surveillance—an intrusion—and
+harsh punishments, and we are seeing these being enacted
into law in the U.S. and other countries.</p>
<p>
And copyright used to be, arguably, an advantageous trade for the
@@ -559,8 +559,8 @@
Well, it might be a good compromise policy to have copyright cover
commercial verbatim copying but allow everyone the right to do
non-commercial verbatim copying. This way, the copyright on the
-commercial verbatim copying, as well as on all modified versions
-— only the author could approve a modified version—would
+commercial verbatim copying, as well as on all modified versions—only
+the author could approve a modified version—would
still provide the same revenue stream that it provides now to fund the
writing of these works, to whatever extent it does.</p>
<p>
@@ -862,9 +862,9 @@
Well, clearly, that's not the way to make the public feel like sending
you money. You've got to make them love you, not fear you.</p>
<p>
-<b>SPEAKER</b>: The details were that he required a certain percentage
-— I don't know the exact percentage, around 90% sounds correct
-— of people to send a certain amount of money, which, I believe,
+<b>SPEAKER</b>: The details were that he required a certain percentage—I
+don't know the exact percentage, around 90% sounds correct—of
+people to send a certain amount of money, which, I believe,
was a dollar or two dollars, or somewhere in that order of magnitude.
You had to type in your name and your e-mail address and some other
information to get to download it and if that percentage of people was
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service programmed and run by an entity other than the state, since
this would be SaaSS.</p>
-<p>Proprietary software has no security at all in one crucial case
-— against its developer. And the developer may help others attack.
+<p>Proprietary software has no security at all in one crucial
+case—against its developer. And the developer may help others attack.
<a
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/nsa-gets-early-access-to-zero-day-data-from-microsoft-others/";>
Microsoft shows Windows bugs to the NSA</a> (the US government digital
spying agency) before fixing them. We do not know whether Apple does
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@
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capitalism, once upon a time identified by Joseph Schumpeter. We are
doing a thing better at lower cost than it is presently being done by
those people using other people's money to do it. The result -
-celebrated everywhere that capitalism is actually believed in —
-is that existing firms are going to have to change their way of
+celebrated everywhere that capitalism is actually believed in—is
+that existing firms are going to have to change their way of
operation or leave the market. This is usually regarded as a positive
outcome, associated with enormous welfare increases of which
capitalism celebrates at every opportunity everywhere all the time in
@@ -849,8 +849,8 @@
<p>
But in the end, it is our ability to unify all of the elements of the
-information society—software, hardware, and bandwidth —
-in shared hands, that is in our own hands, that determines whether we
+information society—software, hardware, and bandwidth—in
+shared hands, that is in our own hands, that determines whether we
can succeed in carrying out the great 18th century dream, the one that
is found in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, the
one that says that human beings and human society are infinitely
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carried out by Prof. Nagarjuna in Mumbai.
</p>
-<p>Also, I should mention the free encyclopedia —
-Wikipedia. It's the largest encyclopedia in history. I believe, it now
+<p>Also, I should mention the free encyclopedia—Wikipedia.
+It's the largest encyclopedia in history. I believe, it now
has more than a hundred and sixty thousand entries. Which is far more
than any other encyclopedia has ever had. Like around twice. And this
has been done in just a few years; by the public.
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with any given patent is largely random and most of them don't bring any
benefits to their owners. But IBM is so big that these things average
out over the scale of IBM. So you could take IBM as measuring what the
-average is like. What we see is—and this is a little bit subtle
-— the benefit to IBM of being able to make use of ideas that were
+average is like. What we see is—and this is a little bit
+subtle—the benefit to IBM of being able to make use of ideas that were
patented by others is equal to the harm that the patent system would have
done to IBM if there were no cross-licensing—if IBM really were
prohibited from using all those ideas that were patented by others.</p>
@@ -973,8 +973,8 @@
causing problems here, despite the tremendous problems they cause in
other areas of life.</p>
-<p> Preventing India from having software patents will be up to you
-— to the citizens of India. I am a foreigner, I have no influence
+<p> Preventing India from having software patents will be up to you—to
+the citizens of India. I am a foreigner, I have no influence
except when I can convince other people through the logic of what I say.
There is a chance that you can do this. When the US started to have
software patents, the public policy question was not considered at all.
@@ -1358,8 +1358,8 @@
The purpose of… You have been brainwashed, you have been listening to
the propaganda of the companies that want to have these monopolies.
If you ask what legal scholars say is the basis of these systems,
- they say that they are attempts—for copyrights and for patents
- —they are attempts to manipulate the behavior of people to get
+ they say that they are attempts—for copyrights and for
+ patents—they are attempts to manipulate the behavior of people to get
benefit for the public. Trademarks are a different issue, I think the
issues for trademark are completely different. So you are making an
overgeneralization also.</dd>
@@ -1547,8 +1547,8 @@
I'm sorry. What people would do, what software developers would do in
that situation is use general purpose machines more.</dd>
-<dt><b>Q</b>: Some algorithm can be run on a general purpose machine
-— what I'd say that, that algorithm, I'm using it for some embedded
+<dt><b>Q</b>: Some algorithm can be run on a general purpose machine—what
+I'd say that, that algorithm, I'm using it for some embedded
device and go ahead and patent it.</dt>
<dd><b>A</b>: Why you could try it, you misunderstood. The point is
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