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| author | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:02:00 +0000 |
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| 38 Since that time, we have learned about certain common misunderstandings | 38 Since that time, we have learned about certain common misunderstandings |
| 39 that different wording could help avoid. Footnotes added in 1993 help | 39 that different wording could help avoid. Footnotes added in 1993 help |
| 40 clarify these points. | 40 clarify these points. |
| 41 | 41 |
| 42 For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, please see | 42 For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, please |
| 43 the latest issue of the GNU's Bulletin. The list is much too long to | 43 see @uref{http://www.gnu.org}. For software tasks to work on, see |
| 44 include here. | 44 @uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist}. For other ways to |
| 45 contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}. | |
| 45 @end quotation | 46 @end quotation |
| 46 | 47 |
| 47 @unnumberedsec What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! | 48 @unnumberedsec What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! |
| 48 | 49 |
| 49 GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete | 50 GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete |
| 378 | 379 |
| 379 ``Control over the use of one's ideas'' really constitutes control over | 380 ``Control over the use of one's ideas'' really constitutes control over |
| 380 other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more | 381 other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more |
| 381 difficult. | 382 difficult. |
| 382 | 383 |
| 383 People who have studied the issue of intellectual property rights carefully | 384 People who have studied the issue of intellectual property |
| 385 rights@footnote{In the 80s I had not yet realized how confusing it was | |
| 386 to speak of ``the issue'' of ``intellectual property.'' That term is | |
| 387 obviously biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together | |
| 388 various disparate laws which raise very different issues. Nowadays I | |
| 389 urge people to reject the term ``intellectual property'' entirely, | |
| 390 lest it lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent | |
| 391 issue. The way to be clear is to discuss patents, copyrights, and | |
| 392 trademarks separately. See | |
| 393 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml} for more | |
| 394 explanation of how this term spreads confusion and bias.} carefully | |
| 384 (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual | 395 (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual |
| 385 property. The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the | 396 property. The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the |
| 386 government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for | 397 government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for |
| 387 specific purposes. | 398 specific purposes. |
| 388 | 399 |
| 487 operating systems onto the new hardware. | 498 operating systems onto the new hardware. |
| 488 | 499 |
| 489 The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also | 500 The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also |
| 490 employ programmers. | 501 employ programmers. |
| 491 | 502 |
| 492 People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking for | 503 People with new ideas could distribute programs as |
| 493 donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services. I have | 504 freeware@footnote{Subsequently we have learned to distinguish between |
| 494 met people who are already working this way successfully. | 505 "free software" and "freeware". The term "freeware" means software |
| 506 you are free to redistribute, but usually you are not free to study | |
| 507 and change the source code, so most of it is not free software. See | |
| 508 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html} for more | |
| 509 explanation.}, asking for donations from satisfied users, or selling | |
| 510 hand-holding services. I have met people who are already working this | |
| 511 way successfully. | |
| 495 | 512 |
| 496 Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues. A group | 513 Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues. A group |
| 497 would contract with programming companies to write programs that the | 514 would contract with programming companies to write programs that the |
| 498 group's members would like to use. | 515 group's members would like to use. |
| 499 | 516 |