www/philosophy who-does-that-server-really-serv...

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       23/02/26 08:08:26

Modified files:
        philosophy     : who-does-that-server-really-serve.html 

Log message:
        Make the criterion for "your own computing" sharper.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.77&r2=1.78

Patches:
Index: who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html,v
retrieving revision 1.77
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -u -b -r1.77 -r1.78
--- who-does-that-server-really-serve.html      12 Nov 2022 20:53:03 -0000      
1.77
+++ who-does-that-server-really-serve.html      26 Feb 2023 13:08:24 -0000      
1.78
@@ -80,11 +80,12 @@
 is <em>your own</em>?  It means that no one else is inherently
 involved in it.  To clarify the meaning of &ldquo;inherently
 involved,&rdquo; we present a thought experiment.  Suppose that any
-free software you might need for the job is available to you, and
-whatever data you might need, as well as computers of whatever speed,
-functionality and capacity might be required.  Could you do this
-particular computing activity entirely within those computers, not
-communicating with anyone else's computers?</p>
+software tasks you might need for the job are implemented in free
+software and you have copies, and you have whatever data you might
+need, as well as computers of whatever speed, functionality and
+capacity might be required.  Could you do this particular computing
+activity entirely within those computers, not communicating with
+anyone else's computers?</p>
 
 <p>If you could, then the activity is <em>entirely your own</em>.  For
 your freedom's sake, you deserve to control it.  If you do it by
@@ -250,18 +251,18 @@
 
 <p>Rejecting SaaSS does not mean refusing to use any network servers
 run by anyone other than you.  Most servers are not SaaSS because the
-jobs they do are some sort of communication, rather than the user's
-own computing.</p>
+jobs they do are some sort of communication with visitors, rather than
+each visitor's's own computing.</p>
 
-<p>The original idea of web servers wasn't to do computing for you, it
-was to publish information for you to access.  Even today this is what
-most web sites do, and it doesn't pose the SaaSS problem, because
-accessing someone's published information isn't doing your own
-computing.  Neither is use of a blog site to publish your own works,
-or using a microblogging service such as Twitter or StatusNet.  (These
-services may or may not have other problems, depending on details.)
-The same goes for other communication not meant to be private, such as
-chat groups.</p>
+<p>The original idea of web servers wasn't to do computing for you, a
+visitor; it was to publish information for you to access.  Even today
+this is what most web sites do, and it doesn't pose the SaaSS problem,
+because accessing someone's published information on a web site isn't
+doing your own computing.  Neither is use of a blog site to publish
+your own works, or using a microblogging service such as Twitter or
+StatusNet.  (These services may or may not have other problems,
+depending on details.)  The same goes for other communication not
+meant to be private, such as chat groups.</p>
 
 <p>In its essence, social networking is a form of communication and
 publication, not SaaSS.  However, a service whose main facility is
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2022/11/12 20:53:03 $
+$Date: 2023/02/26 13:08:24 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
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