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[Yavor Doganov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Yavor Doganov <yavor>   09/08/06 20:40:56

Modified files:
        distros        : free-distros.html 
        philosophy     : 15-years-of-free-software.html 

Log message:
        Add links to the Arabic translations.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/free-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.9&r2=1.10
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18

Patches:
Index: distros/free-distros.html
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+$Date: 2009/08/06 20:40:48 $
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@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@
 <h4>Translations of this page</h4>
 
 <ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- Arabic -->
+<li><a 
href="/distros/free-distros.ar.html">&#1575;&#1604;&#1593;&#1585;&#1576;&#1610;&#1577;</a>&nbsp;[ar]</li>
 <!-- Catalan -->
 <li><a href="/distros/free-distros.ca.html">catal&#x00e0;</a>&nbsp;[ca]</li>
 <!-- English -->

Index: philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html
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@@ -15,35 +15,38 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  It is now just over 15 years since the beginning of the Free Software 
Movement
-  and the GNU Project. We have come a long way.
+  It is now just over 15 years since the beginning of the Free
+  Software Movement and the GNU Project. We have come a long way.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  In 1984, it was impossible to use a modern computer without installing a
-  proprietary operating system, which you would have to obtain under a
-  restrictive license. No one was allowed to share software freely with fellow
-  computer users, and hardly anyone could change software to fit his or her own
-  needs. The owners of software had erected walls to divide us from each other.
+  In 1984, it was impossible to use a modern computer without
+  installing a proprietary operating system, which you would have to
+  obtain under a restrictive license. No one was allowed to share
+  software freely with fellow computer users, and hardly anyone could
+  change software to fit his or her own needs. The owners of software
+  had erected walls to divide us from each other.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  The GNU Project was founded to change all that. Its first goal: to develop a
-  Unix-compatible portable operating system that would be 100% free software. 
Not
-  95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%&mdash;so that users would be free to 
redistribute
-  the whole system, and free to change and contribute to any part of it. The 
name
-  of the system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning &ldquo;GNU's Not
-  Unix&rdquo;&mdash;a way of paying tribute to Unix, while at the same time
-  saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. But
-  unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
+  The GNU Project was founded to change all that. Its first goal: to
+  develop a Unix-compatible portable operating system that would be
+  100% free software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%&mdash;so that
+  users would be free to redistribute the whole system, and free to
+  change and contribute to any part of it. The name of the system,
+  GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning &ldquo;GNU's Not
+  Unix&rdquo;&mdash;a way of paying tribute to Unix, while at the same
+  time saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is
+  like Unix. But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  It took many years of work, by hundreds of programmers, to develop this
-  operating system. Some were paid by the Free Software Foundation and by free
-  software companies; most were volunteers. A few have become famous; most are
-  known mainly within their profession, by other hackers who use or work on 
their
-  code. All together have helped to liberate the potential of the computer
+  It took many years of work, by hundreds of programmers, to develop
+  this operating system. Some were paid by the Free Software
+  Foundation and by free software companies; most were volunteers. A
+  few have become famous; most are known mainly within their
+  profession, by other hackers who use or work on their code. All
+  together have helped to liberate the potential of the computer
   network for all humanity.
 </p>
 
@@ -59,19 +62,21 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  But our freedom is not permanently assured. The world does not stand still, 
and
-  we cannot count on having freedom five years from now, just because we have 
it
-  today. Free software faces difficult challenges and dangers. It will take
-  determined efforts to preserve our freedom, just as it took to obtain freedom
-  in the first place. Meanwhile, the operating system is just the 
beginning&mdash;now
-  we need to add free applications to handle the whole range of jobs that users
-  want to do.
+  But our freedom is not permanently assured. The world does not stand
+  still, and we cannot count on having freedom five years from now,
+  just because we have it today. Free software faces difficult
+  challenges and dangers. It will take determined efforts to preserve
+  our freedom, just as it took to obtain freedom in the first
+  place. Meanwhile, the operating system is just the
+  beginning&mdash;now we need to add free applications to handle the
+  whole range of jobs that users want to do.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-  In future columns, I will be writing about the specific challenges facing the
-  free software community, and other issues affecting freedom for computer 
users,
-  as well as developments affecting the GNU/Linux operating system.
+  In future columns, I will be writing about the specific challenges
+  facing the free software community, and other issues affecting
+  freedom for computer users, as well as developments affecting the
+  GNU/Linux operating system.
 </p>
 
 </div>
@@ -81,12 +86,12 @@
 <div id="footer">
 <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>
 
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@@ -107,7 +112,7 @@
 <p>
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-$Date: 2009/02/03 12:57:54 $
+$Date: 2009/08/06 20:40:51 $
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@@ -131,6 +136,8 @@
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 <ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- Arabic -->
+<li><a 
href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.ar.html">&#1575;&#1604;&#1593;&#1585;&#1576;&#1610;&#1577;</a>&nbsp;[ar]</li>
 <!-- German -->
 <li><a 
href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.de.html">Deutsch</a>&nbsp;[de]</li>
 <!-- English -->