www/philosophy linux-gnu-freedom.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       08/01/18 17:40:11

Modified files:
        philosophy     : linux-gnu-freedom.html 

Log message:
        Add xref to gnu-linux-faq.html.
        Mention the free Linux version in the Update.
        Add a forward ref to the Update.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.24&r2=1.25

Patches:
Index: linux-gnu-freedom.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -b -r1.24 -r1.25
--- linux-gnu-freedom.html      19 Jun 2007 00:03:00 -0000      1.24
+++ linux-gnu-freedom.html      18 Jan 2008 17:40:02 -0000      1.25
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 <!--
     <p>
       <cite>Richard Stallman's response to Joe Barr's account of the FSF's
-        dealings with the Austin Linux users group.</cite></p>
+        dealings with the Austin &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; users group.</cite></p>
     -->
 
 <p>
@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@
   for the history.</p>
 <p>
   When I ask people to call the system GNU/Linux, some of them respond
-  with silly excuses and straw men.  But we probably haven't lost
+  with <a href="/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html"> silly excuses and straw men</a>.
+  But we probably haven't lost
   anything, because they were probably unfriendly to begin with.
   Meanwhile, other people recognize the reasons I give, and use that
   name.  By doing so, they help make other people aware of why the
@@ -159,6 +160,8 @@
 
 <h3 id="bitkeeper">Bitkeeper issue</h3>
 <p>
+  (See the <a href="#update">update</a> below.)</p>
+<p>
   The use of Bitkeeper for the Linux sources has a grave effect on the
   free software community, because anyone who wants to closely track
   patches to Linux can only do it by installing that non-free program.
@@ -223,9 +226,15 @@
   want to learn.</p>
 
 <p>
-  <strong>Update:</strong> BitKeeper is no longer used to manage the
-  Linux kernel source tree. RMS discusses the change in his
-  article, <a href="/philosophy/mcvoy.html">Thank You, Larry McVoy</a>.
+  <strong><a name="update">Update:</a></strong> Since 2005, BitKeeper
+  is no longer used to manage the Linux kernel source tree.  See the
+  article, <a href="/philosophy/mcvoy.html">Thank You, Larry
+  McVoy</a>.  The Linux sources still contain non-free firmware blobs,
+  but as of January 2008,
+  a <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/proiject/linux";> free version of
+  Linux</a> is now maintained for use in free GNU/Linux
+  distributions.</p>
+  
 </p>
 
 </div>
@@ -260,7 +269,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/06/19 00:03:00 $
+$Date: 2008/01/18 17:40:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>