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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/keep-control-of-your-computing.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/keep-control-of-your-computing.html index 5345c97..515fd7d 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/keep-control-of-your-computing.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/keep-control-of-your-computing.html @@ -1,20 +1,29 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> -<title>Keep control of your computing, so it doesn't control you! +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural ns" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> +<title>Keep Control of Your Computing, So It Doesn't Control You! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/keep-control-of-your-computing.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> -<h2>Keep control of your computing, so it doesn't control you!</h2> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> +<h2>Keep Control of Your Computing, So It Doesn't Control You!</h2> -<p>by Richard Stallman<br />First published in Der Spiegel Online</p> +<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address> -<p>The World Wide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 as a system +<div class="introduction"> +<p><em>The World Wide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 as a system for publishing and viewing information, is slowly being transformed into a system of remote computing. It will store your data, and data about you, often limiting your access to it but allowing FBI access at any time. It will do your computing for you, but you cannot control what it does. It provides various tempting attractions, but you must -resist them.</p> +resist them.</em></p> +</div> <p>In the 1980s, most people did not use computers; those who did, mostly used personal computers or timesharing services. Both allowed you to @@ -40,7 +49,7 @@ right for users to be controlled by their software.</p> to develop an operating system and applications that would be entirely free (libre, freie), so that the users would have control over them. I gave this system the name GNU. (You have probably heard people call -it “Linux”, but that's an error.) People who switch to this system, +it “Linux,” but that's an error.) People who switch to this system, and insist on using only free software, are in a position to control their computing. We have liberated only a small part of cyberspace, as yet, but that is a foothold for freedom.</p> @@ -73,7 +82,7 @@ Facebook's users do not pay, so they are not its clients. They are its merchandise, to be sold to other businesses. If the company is in the US, or is a subsidiary of a US company, the FBI can collect this data at whim without even a court order under an un-American US law, -named in purest blackwhiting the “Patriot Act”.</p> +named in purest blackwhiting the “Patriot Act.”</p> <p>Services also offer to operate on the users data. In effect, this means that users do their computing on the servers, and the servers @@ -81,9 +90,9 @@ take complete control of that computing.</p> <p>There is a systematic marketing campaign to drive users to entrusting their computing and their data to companies they have absolutely no -reason to trust. Its buzzword is “cloud computing”, a term used for +reason to trust. Its buzzword is “cloud computing,” a term used for so many different computing structures that its only real meaning is, -“Do it without thinking about what you're doing”.</p> +“Do it without thinking about what you're doing.”</p> <p>There is even a product, Google ChromeOS, designed so that it can only store data remotely, and the user must do her computing remotely. @@ -98,9 +107,15 @@ ChromeOS devices will be designed to prevent users from doing that.</p> mean that Internet users can't have control of their computing. It does mean that you'll have to swim against the current to have them.</p> +<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary"> +<hr /> +<p>First published in <cite>Der Spiegel Online</cite>.</p> +</div> +</div> + </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to @@ -118,19 +133,19 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations -README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> <!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should - be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US. Please do NOT change or remove this + be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the @@ -145,21 +160,20 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2011 Richard Stallman</p> +<p>Copyright © 2011, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" -href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative -Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p> +href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative +Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:11 $ +$Date: 2021/10/01 10:55:56 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> - -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |