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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
www/philosophy fs-motives.html |
Date: |
Mon, 18 May 2009 14:22:14 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 09/05/18 14:22:14
Modified files:
philosophy : fs-motives.html
Log message:
Boilerplate compliance. Fill paragraphs for tty-friendliness.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/fs-motives.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Patches:
Index: fs-motives.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/fs-motives.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- fs-motives.html 17 May 2009 13:37:54 -0000 1.1
+++ fs-motives.html 18 May 2009 14:21:07 -0000 1.2
@@ -9,42 +9,45 @@
<ul>
<li>
-<strong>Fun.</strong> For some people, often the best programmers, writing
-software is the greatest fun, especially when there is no boss to tell you
-what to do.
+<strong>Fun.</strong> For some people, often the best programmers,
+writing software is the greatest fun, especially when there is no boss
+to tell you what to do.
Nearly all free software developers share this motive.
</li>
<li>
-<strong>Political idealism.</strong> The desire to build a world of freedom,
-and help computer users escape from the power of software developers.
+<strong>Political idealism.</strong> The desire to build a world of
+freedom, and help computer users escape from the power of software
+developers.
</li>
<li>
-<strong>To be admired.</strong> If you write a successful, useful free
-program, the users will admire you. That feels very good.
+<strong>To be admired.</strong> If you write a successful, useful
+free program, the users will admire you. That feels very good.
</li>
<li>
-<strong>Professional reputation.</strong> If you write a successful, useful
-free program, that will suffice to show you are a good programmer.
+<strong>Professional reputation.</strong> If you write a successful,
+useful free program, that will suffice to show you are a good
+programmer.
</li>
<li>
-<strong>Gratitude.</strong> If you have used the community's free programs
-for years, and it has been important to your work, you feel grateful and
-indebted to their developers. When you write a program that could be useful to
-many people, that is your chance to pay it forward.
+<strong>Gratitude.</strong> If you have used the community's free
+programs for years, and it has been important to your work, you feel
+grateful and indebted to their developers. When you write a program
+that could be useful to many people, that is your chance to pay it
+forward.
</li>
<li>
<strong>Hatred for Microsoft.</strong>
-It is a mistake to focus our criticism
-<a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html"> narrowly on Microsoft</a>.
-Indeed, Microsoft is evil, since it makes non-free software. Even worse, it
-implements
+It is a mistake to focus our
+criticism <a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html">narrowly on
+Microsoft</a>. Indeed, Microsoft is evil, since it makes non-free
+software. Even worse, it implements
<a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org">Digital Restrictions Management</a>
in that software. But many other companies do one or both of these.
@@ -53,8 +56,8 @@
</li>
<li>
-<strong>Money.</strong> A considerable number of people are paid to develop
-free software or have built businesses around it.
+<strong>Money.</strong> A considerable number of people are paid to
+develop free software or have built businesses around it.
</li>
<li>
@@ -67,15 +70,15 @@
</ul>
-Human nature is complex, and it is quite common for a person to have
-multiple simultaneous motives for a single action.
+<p>Human nature is complex, and it is quite common for a person to
+have multiple simultaneous motives for a single action.</p>
-Each person is different, and there could be other motives that are
+<p>Each person is different, and there could be other motives that are
missing from this list. If you know of other motives not listed here,
please send email to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-If we think the other motives are likely to influence many developers,
-we will add them to the list.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>. If
+we think the other motives are likely to influence many developers, we
+will add them to the list.</p>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -83,12 +86,12 @@
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -99,9 +102,8 @@
</p>
<p>
-Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
</p>
-<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA</address>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/05/17 13:37:54 $
+$Date: 2009/05/18 14:21:07 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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