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www/wwwin/philosophy purpose.html |
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Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:07:26 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: D. E. Evans <sinuhe> 07/07/06 03:07:26
Modified files:
wwwin/philosophy: purpose.html
Log message:
Simplify markup.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/wwwin/philosophy/purpose.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Patches:
Index: purpose.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/wwwin/philosophy/purpose.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- purpose.html 26 Feb 2003 06:17:17 -0000 1.1
+++ purpose.html 6 Jul 2007 03:07:22 -0000 1.2
@@ -3,37 +3,21 @@
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="FSF-India, Raison d'etre">
- <meta http-equiv="Description" content="Free Software Foundation - India.
+ <meta http-equiv="Description"
+ content="Free Software Foundation - India.
Why we exist. What is our purpose.">
-<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="freedomfirst.css">
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="freedomfirst.css">
<title>FSF India | Why we exist</title>
</head>
-<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#1F00FF" vlink="#9900DD"
alink="#FF0000">
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
-<tr>
-<td align="center" valign="top" width="80%">
-
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" WIDTH="80%" >
-<tr>
-<td>
-<img SRC="../graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg" ALT="[Image of the Head of a GNU --
GNU's Not Unix!]" border="0" height=122 width=129>
-</td>
-<td align="center">
-<!-- Page title and sub-title if any. -->
+<body>
+
+<img src="../graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"
+ alt="[Head of a GNU -- GNU's Not Unix!]"
+ border="0" height=122 width=129>
+
<h1>FSF India</h1>
<h2>Why we exist</h2>
-<p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-<p>
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" WIDTH="80%" >
-<tr>
-<td>
-<!-- Main page contents: Start -->
-
<h3 class="likesectionHead"><a name="x1-1000"></a>Background</h3>
<p class="noindent">As the computer continues to become increasingly
@@ -47,19 +31,17 @@
alone modifying, programs. By the 1980s, proprietary software had
become the norm, and the computing community was no longer free to
co-operate in using and altering software for specific needs.
+
<p class="indent"> Freedom had been lost.
-<h3 class="likesectionHead"><a name="x1-2000"></a>The Free Software
Foundation</h3>
-<table width="80%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <em>The owners of software had erected walls to divide
- us from each other.</em>
- </td>
- </tr>
-</table>
+<h3 class="likesectionHead"><a name="x1-2000"></a>The Free Software
+Foundation</h3>
+
<p>
+<em>The owners of software had erected walls to divide
+us from each other.</em>
+<p>
Those words came from the one person who has zealously campaigned to
safeguard software freedoms--Richard M. Stallman, a celebrated
programmer and an accomplished hacker. (Contrary to popular belief, a
@@ -77,8 +59,7 @@
class="cmcsc-10">GNU </span>project to develop the free operating
system <span class="cmcsc-10">GNU </span>(a recursive acronym for
<span class="cmcsc-10">GNU</span><span class="cmti-10">'s Not</span>
-<span
-class="cmti-10">Unix</span>).
+<span class="cmti-10">Unix</span>).
<p class="indent"> The next year, Stallman founded the Free Software
Foundation (<span class="cmcsc-10">FSF</span>), dedicated to promoting
@@ -109,18 +90,21 @@
<h3 class="likesectionHead"><a name="x1-5000"></a>FSF India</h3>
-<p class="noindent">The Free Software Foundation of India (<span
-class="cmcsc-10">FSF INDIA</span>), the official Indian affiliate of the
-<span class="cmcsc-10">FSF</span>, was formally inaugurated by
-Richard Stallman at the <span
-class="cmti-10"><font color="red">Freedom First!</font></span>
-Conference at Trivandrum, Kerala on 20 July 2001.
-
-<p class="indent"> <span class="cmcsc-10">FSF INDIA </span>will be the
-national agency for the promotion of the use of <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>free software</a>, i.e.
-software distributed under the <span class="cmcsc-10">GNU
-</span> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html";>General Public
Licence</a> (<span class="cmcsc-10">GNU GPL</span>)
-or <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html";>other licences</a>
approved by <span class="cmcsc-10">FSF</span>, in
+<p class="noindent">The Free Software Foundation of India
+(<span class="cmcsc-10">FSF INDIA</span>), the official Indian
+affiliate of the <span class="cmcsc-10">FSF</span>, was formally
+inaugurated by Richard Stallman at the <span class="cmti-10"><font
+color="red">Freedom First!</font></span> Conference at Trivandrum,
+Kerala on 20 July 2001.
+
+<p class="indent"><span class="cmcsc-10">FSF INDIA </span>will
+be the national agency for the promotion of the use of
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>free software</a>,
+i.e. software distributed under the <span class="cmcsc-10">GNU
+</span> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html";>General
+Public Licence</a> (<span class="cmcsc-10">GNU GPL</span>) or
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html";>other
+licences</a> approved by <span class="cmcsc-10">FSF</span>, in
all domains.
<h3 class="likesectionHead"><a name="vision"></a>The Vision of FSF India</h3>
@@ -130,9 +114,9 @@
respects so as to form a genuine, credible and viable alternative to
proprietary software for every kind of application.
-<p class="indent"> To do so, <span
-class="cmcsc-10">FSF </span>India will:
- <ul class="itemize1">
+<p class="indent">To do so, <span class="cmcsc-10">FSF </span>India will:
+
+<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">Promote awareness about free software among the
general public and, specifically, among programmers and students
</li>
@@ -154,88 +138,32 @@
<li class="itemize">Provide services for the free software
programmer community by, for example, locating and distributing jobs
</li>
- <li class="itemize">Assist the national and State governments in
all aspects relating to
- free software, such as evolving and maintaining standards; providing a
- quality assurance mechanism for free software; and ensuring the use of
free
- software in government and quasi-government milieux
- </li>
+ <li class="itemize">Assist the national and State governments
+ in all aspects relating to free software, such as evolving and
+ maintaining standards; providing a quality assurance mechanism for
+ free software; and ensuring the use of free software in government
+ and quasi-government milieux </li>
<li class="itemize">Provide services such as adjudication and conflict
- redressal within the free software domain</li></ul>
+ redressal within the free software domain</li>
+</ul>
-<!-- Main page contents: End -->
+<hr>
+<h2><a NAME="Contact"></a>Contact Information</h2>
<p>
-<hr>
-<h2>
-<a NAME="Contact"></a>Contact Information</h2>
-Please send inquiries about FSF India to <a
href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>
+Please send inquiries about FSF India to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>
<p>
Comments on these web pages may be sent to
<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</A>
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-</tr>
-</table>
-
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-
-<td align="center" VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20%" BGCOLOR="#99CCCC">
-<!-- Right column -->
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
-<tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>
-<!-- Related links and information: Start -->
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-</table>
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-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td align="center" valign="top" >
-<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" WIDTH="80%" >
-<tr>
-<td valign="top" align="center">
-<p>
<hr>
-Copyright (C) 2002 <a href="http://www.fsf.org.in";>Free Software Foundation of
India</a>.
+Copyright © 2002
+<a href="http://www.fsf.org.in";>Free Software Foundation of India</a>.
<br>
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
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-</tr>
-</table>
-</td>
-
-<td VALIGN="TOP" align="center" WIDTH="20%">
-<p>
-<hr>
-
-<font size="-1">
-Updated: Fri Oct 11 13:54:05 IST 2002
-by klak
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- src="../graphics/valid-html401.png" height="31" width="88"
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