www/philosophy my_doom.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       09/12/15 15:12:26

Modified files:
        philosophy     : my_doom.html 

Log message:
        Minor cleanups.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/my_doom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.19&r2=1.20

Patches:
Index: my_doom.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/my_doom.html,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -b -r1.19 -r1.20
--- my_doom.html        24 Mar 2009 14:57:43 -0000      1.19
+++ my_doom.html        15 Dec 2009 15:12:20 -0000      1.20
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 Stallman</strong></a></p>
 
 <p>
-I grew up in a community whose other members committed crimes as
+I grew up in a community whose other members sometimes committed crimes as
 serious as murder. The city of New York, with its 8 million
 inhabitants, had hundreds of murders each year, mostly committed by
 people who lived in the city. Violent assaults and robberies were
@@ -37,16 +37,18 @@
 proprietary software. People are aware that the mere fact that some
 New Yorkers were known to have done these things is no justification
 for treating all of us as guilty. That would be &ldquo;guilt by
-association&rdquo;, and people know this is unjust.  I now live in the
+association,&rdquo; and people know that is unjust.
+<p>
+I now live in the
 smaller city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Murder and robbery occur
-there, too; I do not know if Cambridge police regularly lie in court,
+here, too; I do not know if Cambridge police regularly lie in court,
 but proprietary software is rife.  Nonetheless, I have never seen
 anyone try to condemn the whole city of Cambridge for this. Here, too,
 people recognize that guilt by association is an injustice.</p>
 <p>
 However, people don't always remember to apply the principle. My
 virtual community, the free software community which I have helped to
-build since 20 years ago by developing the GNU operating system, is
+build since 1984 by developing the GNU operating system, is
 now the victim of a campaign of guilt by association. A number of
 articles&mdash;I have seen some&mdash;have tried to hold our entire
 community guilty for the development of the MyDoom virus.</p>
@@ -126,7 +128,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/03/24 14:57:43 $
+$Date: 2009/12/15 15:12:20 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>