www/philosophy words-to-avoid.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       12/01/30 16:58:31

Modified files:
        philosophy     : words-to-avoid.html 

Log message:
        Add "monetize".
        Minor cleanups.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.137&r2=1.138

Patches:
Index: words-to-avoid.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.137
retrieving revision 1.138
diff -u -b -r1.137 -r1.138
--- words-to-avoid.html 2 Jan 2012 02:36:04 -0000       1.137
+++ words-to-avoid.html 30 Jan 2012 16:58:19 -0000      1.138
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@
 <h4 id="Consume">&ldquo;Consume&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
 It is erroneous to speak of "consuming" digital information, music,
-software, etc.  See the following entry,</p>
+software, etc., since using them does not consume them.  See the
+following entry,</p>
 
 <h4 id="Consumer">&ldquo;Consumer&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
@@ -216,10 +217,10 @@
 <p>
 The terms &ldquo;producer&rdquo; and &ldquo;consumer&rdquo; come from
 economic theory, and bring with them its narrow perspective and
-misguided assumptions.  They tend to warp your thinking.</p>
+misguided assumptions.  These tend to warp your thinking.</p>
 <p>
 In addition, describing the users of software as &ldquo;consumers&rdquo;
-presumes a narrow role for them: it regards them as cattle that
+presumes a narrow role for them: it regards them as sheep that
 passively graze on what others make available to them.</p>
 <p>
 This kind of thinking leads to travesties like the CBDTPA
@@ -477,7 +478,19 @@
 and legitimize proprietary software.</p>
 
 
-<h4 id="MP3Player">&ldquo;MP3 player&rdquo;</h4>
+<h4 id="Market">&ldquo;Monetize&rdquo;</h4>
+<p>
+The natural meaning of &ldquo;monetize&rdquo; is &ldquo;convert into
+money&rdquo;.  If you make something and then convert it into money,
+that means there is nothing left except money, so nobody but you has
+gained anything, and you contribute nothing to the world.</p>
+<p>
+By contrast, a productive and ethical business does not convert all of
+its product into money.  Part of it is a contribution to the rest of
+the world.</p>
+
+
+<h4 id="MP3Player">&ldquo;MP3 Player&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
 In the late 1990s it became feasible to make portable, solid-state
 digital audio players. Most support the patented MP3 codec, but not
@@ -723,7 +736,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/01/02 02:36:04 $
+$Date: 2012/01/30 16:58:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>