trans-coord/gnun licenses/license-list.html phi...

[Yavor Doganov]

CVSROOT:        /sources/trans-coord
Module name:    trans-coord
Changes by:     Yavor Doganov <yavor>   09/04/12 18:10:19

Modified files:
        gnun/licenses  : license-list.html 
        gnun/philosophy: words-to-avoid.html 

Log message:
        Automatic sync from the master www repository.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.33&r2=1.34
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.9&r2=1.10

Patches:
Index: licenses/license-list.html
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RCS file: /sources/trans-coord/trans-coord/gnun/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.33
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -b -r1.33 -r1.34
--- licenses/license-list.html  24 Mar 2009 18:10:34 -0000      1.33
+++ licenses/license-list.html  12 Apr 2009 18:10:18 -0000      1.34
@@ -382,8 +382,8 @@
     It is a free software license, and compatible with the GNU GPL.</p>
 
 <p>This license does have an unfortunate wording choice: it provides
-  recipients with &quot;Permission to use, copy, modify, and
-  distribute this software....&quot; This is the same language from
+  recipients with &quot;Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or
+  distribute this software....&quot; This is roughly the same language from
   the license of Pine that the University of Washington later claimed
   prohibited people from distributing modified versions of the
   software.</p>
@@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@
   <p>
     Updated:
     <!-- timestamp start -->
-    $Date: 2009/03/24 18:10:34 $
+    $Date: 2009/04/12 18:10:18 $
     <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
 </div>

Index: philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
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RCS file: /sources/trans-coord/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -b -r1.9 -r1.10
--- philosophy/words-to-avoid.html      8 Jan 2009 19:11:19 -0000       1.9
+++ philosophy/words-to-avoid.html      12 Apr 2009 18:10:19 -0000      1.10
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
 
-<h2>Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding</h2>
+<h2>Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases to Avoid (or use with care)</h2>
 
 <p>
 There are a number of words and phrases which we recommend avoiding,
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 | &ldquo;<a
        href="words-to-avoid.html#Closed">Closed</a>&rdquo;
 | &ldquo;<a
+       href="words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">Cloud Computing</a>&rdquo;
+| &ldquo;<a
        href="words-to-avoid.html#Commercial">Commercial</a>&rdquo;
 | &ldquo;<a
        href="words-to-avoid.html#Compensation">Compensation</a>&rdquo;
@@ -111,6 +113,24 @@
 &ldquo;proprietary&rdquo;</a>.</p>
 
 
+<h4 id="CloudComputing">&ldquo;Cloud Computing&rdquo;</h4>
+<p>
+The term &ldquo;cloud computing&rdquo; is marketing buzzword with no
+clear meaning.  It is used for a range of different activities whose
+only common quality is that they use the Internet for something beyond
+transmitting files.  Thus, the term is a nexus of confusion.  If you
+try to use it in your thinking, your thinking will be vague.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When thinking about or responding to a statement someone else made
+using this term, the first step is to clarify the topic.  Which kind
+of activity is the statement really about, and what is a good term for
+that activity?  Pressing yourself (or the person who made the
+statement) to clarify the topic will direct the discussion towards a
+useful conclusion.
+</p>
+
 <h4 id="Commercial">&ldquo;Commercial&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
 Please don't use &ldquo;commercial&rdquo; as a synonym for
@@ -142,10 +162,9 @@
 <p>
 To speak of &ldquo;compensation for authors&rdquo; in connection with
 copyright carries the assumptions that (1) copyright exists for the
-sake of authors and (2) whenever we read something, the author is
-working for us so we owe him money.  The first assumption is simply
+sake of authors and (2) whenever we read something, we take on a debt to the 
author which we must then repay.  The first assumption is simply
 <a href="misinterpreting-copyright.html">false</a>, and the second is
-rather outrageous.
+outrageous.
 </p>
 
 <h4 id="Consumer">&ldquo;Consumer&rdquo;</h4>
@@ -181,13 +200,12 @@
 describe written and other works of authorship is worth avoiding.
 That usage adopts a specific attitude towards those works: that they
 are an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and
-make money.  In effect, it treats the works themselves with
-disrespect.</p>
+make money.  In effect, it disparages the works themselves.</p>
 <p>
 Those who use this term are often the publishers that push for
 increased copyright power in the name of the authors
 (&ldquo;creators&rdquo;, as they say) of the works.  The term
-&ldquo;content&rdquo; reveals what they really feel.
+&ldquo;content&rdquo; reveals their real attitude towards these works and 
their authors.
 (See <a 
href="http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html";>Courtney
 Love's open letter to Steve Case</a> and search for &ldquo;content
 provider&rdquo; in that page.  Alas, Ms. Love is unaware that the term
@@ -199,13 +217,16 @@
 &ldquo;malcontent providers&rdquo;.</p>
 <p>
 The term &ldquo;content management&rdquo; takes the prize for vacuity.
-Neither word has any specific meaning; &ldquo;content&rdquo; means
-&ldquo;some sort of information&rdquo;, and &ldquo;management&rdquo;
-in this context means &ldquo;doing something with it&rdquo;.  So a
-&ldquo;content management system&rdquo; is a system for doing
-something to some sort of information.  In most cases, that term
-really refers to a system for updating a website.  For that, we
-recommend the term &ldquo;website revision system&rdquo; (WRS).</p>
+&ldquo;Content&rdquo; means &ldquo;some sort of information&rdquo;,
+and &ldquo;management&rdquo; in this context means &ldquo;doing
+something with it&rdquo;.  So a &ldquo;content management
+system&rdquo; is a system for doing something to some sort of
+information.  That description fits most programs.</p>
+
+<p>
+In most cases, that term really refers to a system for updating pages
+on a website.  For that, we recommend the term &ldquo;website revision
+system&rdquo; (WRS).</p>
 
 <h4 id="Creator">&ldquo;Creator&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
@@ -242,19 +263,22 @@
 
 <h4 id="Ecosystem">&ldquo;Ecosystem&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
-It is a mistake to describe our community (or any community) as an
-&ldquo;ecosystem&rdquo;, because that word implies the absence of (1)
-intension and (2) ethics.  In an ecosystem, species evolve according
-to their fitness.  If something is weak, it goes extinct, and that's
-neither right nor wrong.  The term &ldquo;ecosystem&rdquo; implicitly
-suggests a passive attitude: &ldquo;Don't ask how
-things <em>should</em> be, just watch what happens to them&rdquo;.</p>
-
-<p>
-By contrast, beings that have ethical responsibility can decide to
-preserve something that, on its own, would tend to vanish&mdash;such
-as civil society, democracy, human rights, peace, public health,
-&hellip; or computer users' freedom.
+It is a mistake to describe the free software community, or any human
+community, as an &ldquo;ecosystem&rdquo;, because that word implies
+the absence of (1) intension and (2) ethics.  In an ecosystem, species
+evolve according to their fitness.  If something is weak, it goes
+extinct, and that's neither right nor wrong, merely an ecological
+phenomenon.  The term &ldquo;ecosystem&rdquo; implicitly suggests a
+passive attitude: &ldquo;Don't ask how things <em>should</em> be, just
+watch what happens to them&rdquo;.</p>
+
+<p>
+By contrast, beings that adopt an active stance towards their
+surroundings, and have ideas of ethical responsibility, can decide to
+preserve things that, on their own, would tend to vanish&mdash;such as
+civil society, democracy, human rights, peace, public health, clean
+air and water, endangered species, traditional arts, &hellip; and
+computer users' freedom.
 </p>
 
 
@@ -644,7 +668,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/01/08 19:11:19 $
+$Date: 2009/04/12 18:10:19 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>