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From: Therese Godefroy
Subject: www/philosophy/po rms-nyu-2001-transcript.tr.po
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 05:08:02 -0400 (EDT)

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 17/05/12 05:08:02

Modified files:
        philosophy/po  : rms-nyu-2001-transcript.tr.po 

Log message:
        Unfuzzify.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.tr.po?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7

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-#| "were on the net They could then just pull over a tar file, but a lot of "
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-#| "remember, when it's not free software, that's because of government "
-#| "intervention.  The government is intervening to make it non-free.  The "
-#| "government is creating special legal powers to hand out to the owners of "
-#| "the programs, so that they can have the police stop us from using the "
-#| "programs in certain ways.  So I would certainly like to end that."
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 "But yes, I think all published software should be free software.  And "
 "remember, when it's not free software, that's because of government "



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