www/philosophy limit-patent-effect.html

[Jeanne Rasata]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Jeanne Rasata <jrasata> 15/12/31 22:32:13

Modified files:
        philosophy     : limit-patent-effect.html 

Log message:
        minor changes (RMS-approved)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.8&r2=1.9

Patches:
Index: limit-patent-effect.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -b -r1.8 -r1.9
--- limit-patent-effect.html    12 Apr 2014 12:40:13 -0000      1.8
+++ limit-patent-effect.html    31 Dec 2015 22:32:13 -0000      1.9
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 <p>Patents threaten every software developer, and the patent wars we have
 long feared have broken out.  Software developers and software
-users&mdash;which in our society, is most people&mdash;need software
+users&mdash;which, in our society, is most people&mdash;need software
 to be free of patents.</p>
 
 <p>The patents that threaten us are often called &ldquo;software
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
 <p>Still, software is where computational idea patents cause a special
 problem.  In software, it's easy to implement thousands of ideas
-together in one program.  If 10% are patented, that means hundreds of
+together in one program.  If 10 percent are patented, that means hundreds of
 patents threaten it.</p>
 
 <p>When Dan Ravicher of the Public Patent Foundation studied one large program
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 <a href="/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html"> GNU/Linux</a> operating system) in
 2004, he found 283 US patents that appeared to cover computing ideas
 implemented in the source code of that program.  That same year, a
-magazine estimated that Linux was .25% of the whole GNU/Linux system.
+magazine estimated that Linux was .25 percent of the whole GNU/Linux system.
 Multiplying 300 by 400 we get the order-of-magnitude estimate that the
 system as a whole was <em>threatened by around 100,000 patents</em>.</p>
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 quality&rdquo;, but the better the patent's &ldquo;quality&rdquo; the
 more dangerous its threat.</p>
 
-<p>We need to fix the whole problem, not just part.</p>
+<p>We need to fix the whole problem, not just part of it.</p>
 
 <p>The usual suggestions for correcting this problem legislatively
 involve changing the criteria for granting patents&mdash;for instance,
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:13 $
+$Date: 2015/12/31 22:32:13 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>