www/philosophy is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program...

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       16/11/01 13:58:05

Modified files:
        philosophy     : is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html 

Log message:
        Local clarifications.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13

Patches:
Index: is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html       1 Sep 2015 20:16:04 -0000       
1.12
+++ is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html       1 Nov 2016 13:58:04 -0000       
1.13
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@
 not ask people to run Windows or MacOS in order to make free
 applications run on them. As developer of Emacs and GCC, I accepted
 changes to make them support nonfree systems such as VMS, Windows and
-MacOS. There was no reason to reject that code, even though people had
-to run nonfree systems to write it, but I did not ask people to run
-nonfree systems in order to work on that.  These changes were written
-by people who were using those systems anyway, and they also did the
-packaging of Emacs releases for those systems.</p>
+MacOS.  I had no reason to reject that code, even though people had
+run nonfree systems to write it.  Their use of unjust systems was not
+at my request or suggestion; rather, they were already using them
+before starting to write changes for GNU.  They also did the packaging
+of releases for those systems.</p>
 
 <p>The &ldquo;developing its own replacement&rdquo; exception is valid within 
its
 limits, and crucial for the progress of free software, but we must
@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@
 <hr />
 
 <p>Occasionally it is necessary to use and even upgrade a nonfree
-system in order to replace it with a free system.  It's not exactly
-the same issue, but the same arguments apply: it is legitimate to
-recommend running some nonfree software momentarily in order to remove
-it.</p>
+system on a machine in order to install a free system to replace it on
+that machine.  This is not exactly the same issue, but the same
+arguments apply: it is legitimate to recommend running some nonfree
+software momentarily in order to remove it.</p>
 
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@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2015/09/01 20:16:04 $
+$Date: 2016/11/01 13:58:04 $
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