From 84dba2f9dcaa7188c04d9e2faa84a6d18db9fcd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:08:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a few missing . --- freeculture.xml | 29 ++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index 342e109..6417fb0 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ software, or "code," functioned as a kind of law—and his review suggested the happy thought that if life in cyberspace got bad, we could always "drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome"-like simply flip a switch and be back home. Turn off the modem, unplug the computer, and -any troubles that exist in that space wouldn't "affect" us anymore. +any troubles that exist in that space wouldn't +"affect" us anymore. Pogue might have been right in 1999—I'm skeptical, but maybe. @@ -331,17 +332,18 @@ pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not free software movement Richard M. Stallman, Free Software, Free Societies 57 (Joshua Gay, ed. 2002). -), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free -trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free -culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this -directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so +), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," +"free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A +free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does +this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that -follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the -control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, -just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The -opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture"—a culture in -which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, -or of creators from the past. +follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as +possible from the control of the past. A free culture is +not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market +in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a +"permission culture"—a culture in which creators get to create +only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the +past. If we understood this change, I believe we would resist it. Not "we" @@ -956,8 +958,9 @@ amazed by the power of this idea of intellectual property and, more importantly, its power to disable critical thought by policy makers and citizens. There has never been a time in our history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never -been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of -culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now. +been a time when the concentration of power to control the +uses of culture has been as unquestioningly +accepted as it is now. The puzzle is, Why? Is it because we have come to understand a truth -- 2.51.0