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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";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</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 &amp; GNU inquiries to 
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</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";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -99,9 +102,8 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Copyright &copy; 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright &copy; 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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