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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/microsoft-old.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/microsoft-old.html index ff9efcb..fcc2219 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/microsoft-old.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/microsoft-old.html @@ -1,15 +1,23 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural evils" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Is Microsoft the Great Satan? (Old Version) - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/microsoft-old.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Is Microsoft the Great Satan? (Old Version)</h2> <div class="announcement"> -<blockquote><p>There is an <a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html"> -updated version</a> of this article.</p></blockquote> +<p>There is an <a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html"> +updated version</a> of this article.</p> </div> +<hr class="thin" /> <p>Many people think of Microsoft as the monster menace of the software industry. There is even a campaign to boycott Microsoft. This feeling @@ -33,7 +41,7 @@ we must not exonerate the other companies that also make proprietary software. At the FSF, we don't run any proprietary software—not from Microsoft or anyone else.</p> -<p>In the “Halloween documents”, released at the end of +<p>In the “Halloween documents,” released at the end of October 1998, Microsoft executives stated an intention to use various methods to obstruct the development of free software: specifically, designing secret protocols and file formats, and patenting algorithms @@ -45,7 +53,7 @@ past, probably, their motivation was to attack each other; now, it seems, we are among the intended targets. But that change in motivation has no practical consequence, because secret conventions and software patents obstruct everyone, regardless of the -“intended target”.</p> +“intended target.”</p> <p>Secrecy and patents do threaten free software. They have obstructed us greatly in the past, and we must expect they will do so even more @@ -56,9 +64,11 @@ that the <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux system</a> has the potential for great success.</p> <p>Thank you, Microsoft, and please get out of the way.</p> +</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 <a @@ -76,18 +86,18 @@ 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 of this article.</p> +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 @@ -102,21 +112,20 @@ information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free -Software Foundation, Inc.</p> +<p>Copyright © 1997-2000, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</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 12:40:16 $ +$Date: 2021/09/12 08:14:19 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |