CVSROOT: /web/www Module name: www Changes by: James Turner <jturner> 11/11/22 02:07:47
Modified files: philosophy : free-digital-society.html Log message: Adjust headings RT #715411 CVSWeb URLs: http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2 Patches: Index: free-digital-society.html =================================================================== RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2 --- free-digital-society.html 22 Nov 2011 02:06:13 -0000 1.1 +++ free-digital-society.html 22 Nov 2011 02:07:42 -0000 1.2 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ doesn't respect their freedom; or we have to make it respect their freedom.</p> -<h3>[Surveillance]</h3> +<strong>[Surveillance]</strong> <p>What are the threats? First, surveillance. Computers are Stalin's dream: they are ideal tools for surveillance, because anything we @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ could get there, because their car was tracked through this universal car tracking system.</p> -<h3>[Censorship]</h3> +<strong>[Censorship]</strong> <p>The second threat is censorship. Censorship is not new, it existed long before computers. But 15 years ago, we thought that @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Internet is not a free country. And is not a legitimate government either.</p> -<h3>[Restricted data formats]</h3> +<strong>[Restricted data formats]</strong> <p>The next threat to our freedom comes from data formats that restrict the users.</p> @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ views. If it were a lecture for a course, if it were didactic, then it ought to be free, but statements of opinion are different.</p> -<h3>[Software that isn't free]</h3> +<strong>[Software that isn't free]</strong> <p>Now this leads me to the next threat which comes from software that the users don't have control over. In other words: software @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ you're going to fail. And that's why we find that malicious features are rare in free software, and common in proprietary software.</p> -<h3>[The 4 freedoms of free software]</h3> +<strong>[The 4 freedoms of free software]</strong> <p>Now the essential freedoms are four:</p> @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ to include the freedom to use your version, not just the freedom to make some source code that won't run.</p> -<h3>[The GNU project and the free software movement]</h3> +<strong>[The GNU project and the free software movement]</strong> <p>I launched the free software movement in 1983, when I announced the plan to develop a free software operating system whose name is GNU. Now @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ but some people don't, and I hope you'll be one of them. Please, since we started this, since we wrote the biggest piece of the code, please give us equal mention, please call the system GNU+Linux, -or GNU/Linux. It's not much to ask!<p> +or GNU/Linux. It's not much to ask!</p> <p>But there is another reason to do this. It turns out that the person who wrote Linux, which is one component of the system as we @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ stand, you're free to say what you think. If you agree with them, you can say open source. If you agree with us, show it: say libre!</p> -<h3>[Free software and education]</h3> +<strong>[Free software and education]</strong> <p>Now the most important point about free software is that schools must teach exclusively free software. All levels of schools from @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ or less.” So don't get distracted with those secondary issues, and ignore what really matters!</p> -<h3>[Internet services]</h3> +<strong>[Internet services]</strong> <p>So, moving on to the next menace. There are two issues that arise from the use of internet services. One of them is that the server @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ <p>I wouldn't want my country to be the pioneer in this. So, use paper for voting. Make sure there are ballots that can be recounted.</p> -<h3>[The war on sharing]</h3> +<strong>[The war on sharing]</strong> <p>The next threat to our freedom in a digital society comes from the war on sharing.</p> @@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ better. I appreciate their work and I realize if we want them to do more work we should support them.</p> -<h3>[Supporting the arts]</h3> +<strong>[Supporting the arts]</strong> <p>I have two proposals for how to support artists, methods that are compatible with sharing. That would allow us to end the war on @@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ propose cruel and draconian measures. They're trying to do something that's nasty by nature. So let's support artists in other ways.</p> -<h3>[Rights in cyberspace]</h3> +<strong>[Rights in cyberspace]</strong> <p>The last threat to our freedom in digital society is the fact that we don't have a firm right to do the things we do, in cyberspace. In @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ <p>Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2011/11/22 02:06:13 $ +$Date: 2011/11/22 02:07:42 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div>