www/philosophy categories.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       12/10/18 11:46:57

Modified files:
        philosophy     : categories.html 

Log message:
        Clarify wording regarding private software.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/categories.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.80&r2=1.81

Patches:
Index: categories.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/categories.html,v
retrieving revision 1.80
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -u -b -r1.80 -r1.81
--- categories.html     20 Sep 2012 19:30:20 -0000      1.80
+++ categories.html     18 Oct 2012 11:46:51 -0000      1.81
@@ -350,14 +350,17 @@
        free.  However, if the user distributes copies to others and does
        not provide the four freedoms with those copies, those copies
        are not free software.</p>
-       <p>Free software is a matter of freedom, not access.
-       In general we do not believe it is wrong to develop a program
-       and not release it. There are occasions when a program is so useful
-       that withholding it from release is doing wrong to humanity.
-       However, most programs are not that important, so not releasing them
-       is not particularly harmful. Thus, there is no conflict between the
-       development of private or custom software and the principles of the
-       free software movement.</p>
+
+       <p>Free software is a matter of freedom, not access.  In
+       general we do not believe it is wrong to develop a program and
+       not release it. There are occasions when a program is so
+       important that one might argue that withholding it from the
+       public is doing wrong to humanity.  However, such cases are
+       rare.  Most programs are not that important, and declining to
+       release them is not particularly wrong. Thus, there is no
+       conflict between the development of private or custom software
+       and the principles of the free software movement.</p>
+
        <p>Nearly all employment for programmers is in development of
        custom software; therefore most programming jobs are, or could be,
        done in a way compatible with the free software movement.</p>
@@ -427,7 +430,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
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-$Date: 2012/09/20 19:30:20 $
+$Date: 2012/10/18 11:46:51 $
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 </p>
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