www/philosophy applying-free-sw-criteria.html

[Jeanne Rasata]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Jeanne Rasata <jrasata> 15/12/31 22:01:46

Modified files:
        philosophy     : applying-free-sw-criteria.html 

Log message:
        lowercase glibc, punctuation, definition of h-node, quotes

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/applying-free-sw-criteria.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8

Patches:
Index: applying-free-sw-criteria.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/applying-free-sw-criteria.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- applying-free-sw-criteria.html      31 Dec 2015 19:34:03 -0000      1.7
+++ applying-free-sw-criteria.html      31 Dec 2015 22:01:46 -0000      1.8
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 of GNU, in the 1980s, it was inevitable that each component depended
 on nonfree software.  For instance, no C program could run without a
 nonfree C compiler until GCC was working, and none could run without
-Unix libc until Glibc was working.  Each component could run only
+Unix libc until glibc was working.  Each component could run only
 on nonfree systems, because all systems were nonfree.</p>
 
 <p>After we released a component that could run on some nonfree systems,
@@ -180,14 +180,15 @@
 driver, perhaps firmware to be loaded by the system into the
 peripheral to make it run.  Thus, a peripheral is acceptable to use
 and recommend if it can be used from a computer that has no nonfree
-software installed: if the peripheral's driver, and any firmware that
+software installed&mdash;the peripheral's driver, and any firmware that
 the system needs to load into it, are free.</p>
 
 <p>It is simple to check this: connect the peripheral to a computer
 running a totally free GNU/Linux distro and see if it works.  But most
 users would like to know <em>before</em> they buy the peripheral, so
 we list information about many peripherals
-in <a href="https://www.h-node.org/";>h-node.org</a>.</p>
+in <a href="https://www.h-node.org/";>h-node.org</a>, a hardware
+database for fully free operating systems.</p>
 
 <h3>Computers</h3>
 
@@ -216,15 +217,15 @@
 software becomes possible for other levels of processing, we will
 require free software at those levels too.</p>
 
-<p>Since certifying a product is active promotion of it, we insist that
-the seller support us in return, by talking about <a
-href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
-software</a> rather than <a
-href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">open source</a>
-and referring to the combination of GNU and Linux as <a
-href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux</a>.  We have no obligation
-to actively promote projects that won't recognize our work and support
-our movement.</p>
+<p>Since certifying a product is active promotion of it, we insist
+that the seller support us in return, by talking
+about <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">free
+software</a> rather
+than <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">open
+source</a> and referring to the combination of GNU and Linux
+as <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">&ldquo;GNU/Linux&rdquo;</a>.  We
+have no obligation to actively promote projects that won't recognize
+our work and support our movement.</p>
 
 <p>See <a href="https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria";>our
 certification criteria</a>.</p>
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/12/31 19:34:03 $
+$Date: 2015/12/31 22:01:46 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>