www/philosophy floss-and-foss.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/11/20 15:20:24

Modified files:
        philosophy     : floss-and-foss.html 

Log message:
        Minor cleanups.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Patches:
Index: floss-and-foss.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- floss-and-foss.html 20 Nov 2013 00:39:17 -0000      1.1
+++ floss-and-foss.html 20 Nov 2013 15:20:23 -0000      1.2
@@ -12,18 +12,18 @@
 campaign
 for <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
 computer users' freedom</a>; we say that a non-free program is an
-injustice to its users.  The open source camp rejects this view and
-bases its arguments on
+injustice to its users.  The open source camp declines to see the
+issue as a matter of justice to the users, and bases its arguments on
 <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html"> practical
 benefits only</a>.</p>
 
-<p>A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers of
-free software community decided that these questions are independent
-of developers' political views, so he used the term
+<p>A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in
+the free software community decided that these questions were
+independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term
 &ldquo;FLOSS,&rdquo; meaning &ldquo;Free/Libre and Open Source
-Software,&rdquo; to explicitly avoid taking any stance as regards the
-two political camps.  If you wish to be neutral, this is a good way to
-do it.</p>
+Software,&rdquo; to explicitly avoid a preference between the two
+political camps.  If you wish to be neutral, this is a good way to do
+it.  It makes the names of the two camps equally prominent.</p>
 
 <p>Others use the term &ldquo;FOSS,&rdquo; which stands for &ldquo;Free
 and Open Source Software.&rdquo; This is meant to mean the same thing
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 
 <p>We in the free software movement don't do use either of these
 terms, because we don't want to be neutral on the political question.
-We stand for freedom and we show it, by saying &ldquo;free&rdquo;
-or &ldquo;libre&rdquo;.</p>
+We stand for freedom, and we show it every time &mdash; by saying
+&ldquo;free software&rdquo; or &ldquo;free/libre software&rdquo;.</p>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/11/20 00:39:17 $
+$Date: 2013/11/20 15:20:23 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>