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Proprietary Software Is Often Malware

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SEEKFORFREEDOM  ·  11月16日 FREEDOM IS VITAL.

Proprietary software, also called nonfree software, means software that doesn't respect users' freedom and community. A proprietary program puts its developer or owner in a position of power over its users. This power is in itself an injustice.

专有软件，也叫做非自由软件，这种软件不会尊重用户的自由。专有软件的开发者拥有对用户"生杀予夺"的权利，这种权利本身就是不合理的

Power corrupts; the proprietary program's developer is tempted to design the program to mistreat its users. (Software designed to function in a way that mistreats the user is called malware.) Of course, the developer usually does not do this out of malice, but rather to profit more at the users' expense. That does not make it any less nasty or more legitimate.

权利腐败：专有软件的开发者倾向于用软件“虐待”用户。(这种“虐待”用户的软件一般称为恶意软件）当然开发者这么做只是想牺牲用户的代价来获取更多利润，并不是说开发者出于恶意的目的，但这并没有使得专有软件变得更不讨厌或更合法

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    Online services are not released software, but in regard to all the bad aspects, using a service is equivalent to using a copy of released software. In particular, a service can be designed to mistreat the user, and many services do that. However, we do not list instances of malicious dis-services here, for two reasons. First, a service (whether malicious or not) is not a program that one could install a copy of, and there is no way at all for users to change it. Second, it is so obvious that a service can mistreat users if the owner wishes that we hardly need to prove it.

    许多在线服务会不合理对待用户，但我们这里并不会加以说明。原因有二，一是服务并不像是程序那样可以复制，用户也不可能去改变它。二是，服务的所有者可以随意根据其好恶来对待用户。

    When a web site provides access to a service, it very likely sends nonfree JavaScript software to execute in the user's browser. Such JavaScript code is released software, and it's morally equivalent to other nonfree apps. If it does malicious things, we want to mention them here.

    当你访问一个网站的时候，它就很有可能在用户的浏览器里执行JavaScript脚本。