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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/lessig-fsfs-intro.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/lessig-fsfs-intro.html index 9d7126d..1d577ea 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/lessig-fsfs-intro.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/lessig-fsfs-intro.html @@ -1,22 +1,26 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="thirdparty" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Introduction to Free Software, Free Society - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> - <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/lessig-fsfs-intro.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> - -<h2>Introduction -to <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><i>Free -Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard -M. Stallman</i></a></h2> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> +<h2>Introduction to +<cite>Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of +Richard M. Stallman</cite></h2> -<p> -by Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School -</p> +<address class="byline"> +by Lawrence Lessig <a href="#lessig"><sup>[*]</sup></a> +</address> <p> -Every generation has its philosopher — a writer or an artist who +Every generation has its philosopher—a writer or an artist who captures the imagination of a time. Sometimes these philosophers are recognized as such; often it takes generations before the connection is made real. But recognized or not, a time gets marked by the people @@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ defined by “code.” “Code” is the technology that makes computers run. Whether inscribed in software or burned in hardware, it is the collection of instructions, first written in words, that directs the functionality -of machines. These machines — computers — increasingly +of machines. These machines—computers—increasingly define and control our life. They determine how phones connect, and what runs on TV. They decide whether video can be streamed across a broadband link to a computer. They control what a computer reports @@ -142,7 +146,7 @@ original lawyers. The opinions they produce can be quoted in later briefs. They can be copied and integrated into another brief or opinion. The “source code” for American law is by design, and by principle, open and free for anyone to take. And take lawyers -do — for it is a measure of a great brief that it achieves its +do—for it is a measure of a great brief that it achieves its creativity through the reuse of what happened before. The source is free; creativity and an economy is built upon it. </p> @@ -156,7 +160,7 @@ doesn't demand such work without price. Instead this economy flourishes, with later work added to the earlier. </p> <p> -We could imagine a legal practice that was different — briefs +We could imagine a legal practice that was different—briefs and arguments that were kept secret; rulings that announced a result but not the reasoning. Laws that were kept by the police but published to no one else. Regulation that operated without explaining @@ -189,7 +193,7 @@ the free software movement. They include many arguments not well known, and among these, an especially insightful account of the changed circumstances that render copyright in the digital world suspect. They will serve as a resource for those who seek to -understand the thought of this most powerful man — powerful in +understand the thought of this most powerful man—powerful in his ideas, his passion, and his integrity, even if powerless in every other way. They will inspire others who would take these ideas, and build upon them. @@ -202,8 +206,8 @@ patient in both. </p> <p> Yet when our world finally comes to understand the power and danger of -code — when it finally sees that code, like laws, or like -government, must be transparent to be free — then we will look +code—when it finally sees that code, like laws, or like +government, must be transparent to be free—then we will look back at this uncompromising and persistent programmer and recognize the vision he has fought to make real: the vision of a world where freedom and knowledge survives the compiler. And we will come to see @@ -218,20 +222,22 @@ and works, there is inspiration for anyone who would, like Stallman, fight to create this freedom. </p> -<p> -<strong>Lawrence Lessig</strong><br /> -<strong>Professor of Law, Stanford Law School.</strong> -</p> - +<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary"> <hr /> -<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>Learn more about -<a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free +<p id="lessig"> +[*] Lawrence Lessig was then Professor of Law at Stanford Law +School.</p> +</div> + +<div class="edu-note c"><p id="fsfs">Learn more about +<a href="https://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard -M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></blockquote> +M. Stallman</cite></a>.</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 @@ -249,17 +255,34 @@ 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> -<p>Copyright © 2002, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> +<!-- 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 4.0. 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