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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
www distros/free-distros.html philosophy/15-yea... |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:40:56 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 09/08/06 20:40:56
Modified files:
distros : free-distros.html
philosophy : 15-years-of-free-software.html
Log message:
Add links to the Arabic translations.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/free-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.9&r2=1.10
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18
Patches:
Index: distros/free-distros.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/free-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -b -r1.9 -r1.10
--- distros/free-distros.html 28 Jul 2009 16:27:53 -0000 1.9
+++ distros/free-distros.html 6 Aug 2009 20:40:48 -0000 1.10
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/07/28 16:27:53 $
+$Date: 2009/08/06 20:40:48 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@
<h4>Translations of this page</h4>
<ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- Arabic -->
+<li><a
href="/distros/free-distros.ar.html">العربية</a> [ar]</li>
<!-- Catalan -->
<li><a href="/distros/free-distros.ca.html">català</a> [ca]</li>
<!-- English -->
Index: philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -b -r1.17 -r1.18
--- philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html 3 Feb 2009 12:57:54 -0000
1.17
+++ philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html 6 Aug 2009 20:40:51 -0000
1.18
@@ -15,35 +15,38 @@
</p>
<p>
- It is now just over 15 years since the beginning of the Free Software
Movement
- and the GNU Project. We have come a long way.
+ It is now just over 15 years since the beginning of the Free
+ Software Movement and the GNU Project. We have come a long way.
</p>
<p>
- In 1984, it was impossible to use a modern computer without installing a
- proprietary operating system, which you would have to obtain under a
- restrictive license. No one was allowed to share software freely with fellow
- computer users, and hardly anyone could change software to fit his or her own
- needs. The owners of software had erected walls to divide us from each other.
+ In 1984, it was impossible to use a modern computer without
+ installing a proprietary operating system, which you would have to
+ obtain under a restrictive license. No one was allowed to share
+ software freely with fellow computer users, and hardly anyone could
+ change software to fit his or her own needs. The owners of software
+ had erected walls to divide us from each other.
</p>
<p>
- The GNU Project was founded to change all that. Its first goal: to develop a
- Unix-compatible portable operating system that would be 100% free software.
Not
- 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%—so that users would be free to
redistribute
- the whole system, and free to change and contribute to any part of it. The
name
- of the system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning “GNU's Not
- Unix”—a way of paying tribute to Unix, while at the same time
- saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. But
- unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
+ The GNU Project was founded to change all that. Its first goal: to
+ develop a Unix-compatible portable operating system that would be
+ 100% free software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%—so that
+ users would be free to redistribute the whole system, and free to
+ change and contribute to any part of it. The name of the system,
+ GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning “GNU's Not
+ Unix”—a way of paying tribute to Unix, while at the same
+ time saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is
+ like Unix. But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
</p>
<p>
- It took many years of work, by hundreds of programmers, to develop this
- operating system. Some were paid by the Free Software Foundation and by free
- software companies; most were volunteers. A few have become famous; most are
- known mainly within their profession, by other hackers who use or work on
their
- code. All together have helped to liberate the potential of the computer
+ It took many years of work, by hundreds of programmers, to develop
+ this operating system. Some were paid by the Free Software
+ Foundation and by free software companies; most were volunteers. A
+ few have become famous; most are known mainly within their
+ profession, by other hackers who use or work on their code. All
+ together have helped to liberate the potential of the computer
network for all humanity.
</p>
@@ -59,19 +62,21 @@
</p>
<p>
- But our freedom is not permanently assured. The world does not stand still,
and
- we cannot count on having freedom five years from now, just because we have
it
- today. Free software faces difficult challenges and dangers. It will take
- determined efforts to preserve our freedom, just as it took to obtain freedom
- in the first place. Meanwhile, the operating system is just the
beginning—now
- we need to add free applications to handle the whole range of jobs that users
- want to do.
+ But our freedom is not permanently assured. The world does not stand
+ still, and we cannot count on having freedom five years from now,
+ just because we have it today. Free software faces difficult
+ challenges and dangers. It will take determined efforts to preserve
+ our freedom, just as it took to obtain freedom in the first
+ place. Meanwhile, the operating system is just the
+ beginning—now we need to add free applications to handle the
+ whole range of jobs that users want to do.
</p>
<p>
- In future columns, I will be writing about the specific challenges facing the
- free software community, and other issues affecting freedom for computer
users,
- as well as developments affecting the GNU/Linux operating system.
+ In future columns, I will be writing about the specific challenges
+ facing the free software community, and other issues affecting
+ freedom for computer users, as well as developments affecting the
+ GNU/Linux operating system.
</p>
</div>
@@ -81,12 +86,12 @@
<div id="footer">
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -107,7 +112,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/02/03 12:57:54 $
+$Date: 2009/08/06 20:40:51 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -131,6 +136,8 @@
<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities. -->
<ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- Arabic -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.ar.html">العربية</a> [ar]</li>
<!-- German -->
<li><a
href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.de.html">Deutsch</a> [de]</li>
<!-- English -->
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