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<title>Computing &lsquo;Progress&rsquo;: Good and Bad
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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-<h2>Computing &lsquo;progress&rsquo;: good and bad</h2>
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+<h2>Computing &lsquo;Progress&rsquo;: Good and Bad</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard
-Stallman</strong></a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
+<div class="infobox" role="complementary">
<p><i>
The BBC invited me to write an article for their column series, The
Tech Lab, and this is what I sent them. (It refers to a couple of
other articles published in that series.) The BBC was ultimately unwilling
to publish it with a copying-permission notice, so I have published it
here.</i></p>
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+<hr class="thin" />
<p>
Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo proposed here that every object in our world
@@ -36,7 +46,7 @@ will surely turn this information over to the police. If your phone
reports you bought a wooden stick and a piece of poster board, the
phone company's system will deduce that you may be planning a protest,
and report you automatically to the police so they can accuse you of
-&ldquo;terrorism&rdquo;.</p>
+&ldquo;terrorism.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
In the UK, it is literally an offense to be suspect&mdash;more precisely,
@@ -82,8 +92,8 @@ location.</p>
<p>
My vision of the world is different. I would like to see a world in
-which all the software in our computers &mdash; in our desktop PCs, our
-laptops, our handhelds, our phones &mdash; is under our control and
+which all the software in our computers&mdash;in our desktop PCs, our
+laptops, our handhelds, our phones&mdash;is under our control and
respects our freedom. In other words, a world where all software is
<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"><em>free</em></a> software.</p>
@@ -123,9 +133,11 @@ designed to spy on users and restrict them. We should collect all the
copies of Windows, and of MacOS and iPlayer for the same reason, and send
them to Alpha Centauri at the slowest possible speed. Or just erase
them.</p>
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@@ -143,29 +155,46 @@ href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
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<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:39:58 $
+$Date: 2021/09/11 09:37:22 $
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