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trans-coord/gnun/philosophy words-to-avoid.html
From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
trans-coord/gnun/philosophy words-to-avoid.html |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:10:16 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/trans-coord
Module name: trans-coord
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 12/01/30 19:10:16
Modified files:
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/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.37&r2=1.38
Patches:
Index: words-to-avoid.html
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RCS file: /sources/trans-coord/trans-coord/gnun/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.37
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -b -r1.37 -r1.38
--- words-to-avoid.html 2 Jan 2012 19:10:16 -0000 1.37
+++ words-to-avoid.html 30 Jan 2012 19:10:15 -0000 1.38
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@
<h4 id="Consume">“Consume”</h4>
<p>
It is erroneous to speak of "consuming" digital information, music,
-software, etc. See the following entry,</p>
+software, etc., since using them does not consume them. See the
+following entry,</p>
<h4 id="Consumer">“Consumer”</h4>
<p>
@@ -216,10 +217,10 @@
<p>
The terms “producer” and “consumer” come from
economic theory, and bring with them its narrow perspective and
-misguided assumptions. They tend to warp your thinking.</p>
+misguided assumptions. These tend to warp your thinking.</p>
<p>
In addition, describing the users of software as “consumers”
-presumes a narrow role for them: it regards them as cattle that
+presumes a narrow role for them: it regards them as sheep that
passively graze on what others make available to them.</p>
<p>
This kind of thinking leads to travesties like the CBDTPA
@@ -477,7 +478,19 @@
and legitimize proprietary software.</p>
-<h4 id="MP3Player">“MP3 player”</h4>
+<h4 id="Market">“Monetize”</h4>
+<p>
+The natural meaning of “monetize” is “convert into
+money”. If you make something and then convert it into money,
+that means there is nothing left except money, so nobody but you has
+gained anything, and you contribute nothing to the world.</p>
+<p>
+By contrast, a productive and ethical business does not convert all of
+its product into money. Part of it is a contribution to the rest of
+the world.</p>
+
+
+<h4 id="MP3Player">“MP3 Player”</h4>
<p>
In the late 1990s it became feasible to make portable, solid-state
digital audio players. Most support the patented MP3 codec, but not
@@ -723,7 +736,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/01/02 19:10:16 $
+$Date: 2012/01/30 19:10:15 $
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</p>
</div>
- trans-coord/gnun/philosophy words-to-avoid.html,
Yavor Doganov <=