[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
www/gnu thegnuproject.html
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/gnu thegnuproject.html |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:16:44 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 10/06/28 23:16:44
Modified files:
gnu : thegnuproject.html
Log message:
Fix the error ("cathedral" where "bazaar" was meant) instead of
footnoting it.
Clean up the text about how FSF now gets income.
Restore a few of the small changes in version 1.42.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.49&r2=1.50
Patches:
Index: thegnuproject.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html,v
retrieving revision 1.49
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -u -b -r1.49 -r1.50
--- thegnuproject.html 28 Jun 2010 11:42:53 -0000 1.49
+++ thegnuproject.html 28 Jun 2010 23:16:41 -0000 1.50
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
<p>
by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p>
<p>
-originally published in the book “Open Sources”</p>
+the original version was published in the book “Open Sources”</p>
<h3>The first software-sharing community</h3>
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
to be a system-programming language. I added a C front end, and began
porting it to the Motorola 68000 computer. But I had to give that
up when I discovered that the compiler needed many megabytes of stack
-space, while the available 68000 Unix system would only allow 64k.</p>
+space, and the available 68000 Unix system would only allow 64k.</p>
<p>
I then realized that the Pastel compiler functioned by parsing the
entire input file into a syntax tree, converting the whole syntax tree
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
problem—they expected and intended this to happen. Their goal was
not freedom, just “success”, defined as “having many
users.” They did not care whether these users had freedom, only
-about having many of them.</p>
+that they should be numerous.</p>
<p>
This led to a paradoxical situation where two different ways of
counting the amount of freedom gave different answers to the question,
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
called “copyleft”.(1)</p>
<p>
Copyleft uses copyright law, but flips it over to serve the opposite
-of its usual purpose: rather than a means for restricting a program, it
+of its usual purpose: instead of a means for restricting a program, it
becomes a means for keeping the program free.</p>
<p>
The central idea of copyleft is that we give everyone permission to
@@ -433,16 +433,14 @@
free manuals as well.</p>
<p>Most of the FSF's income used to come from sales of copies of free
-software and of other related services (<a href="http://shop.fsf.org/">CD-ROMs
of source code,
+software and of other related services (CD-ROMs of source code,
CD-ROMs with binaries, nicely printed manuals</a> (all with the freedom to
-redistribute and modify), and <a href="http://patron.fsf.org/">Deluxe
Distributions</a> (distributions for
-which we build the whole collection of software for the customer's
-choice of platform). Today the FSF receives the bulk of its funding
-from members' dues.</p>
-
-<p>[2010 note: Nowadays <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/">sales</a> provide a
small part of the FSF's income,
-and its biggest source of income is members' dues. You can
-join the FSF at <a href="http://fsf.org/join">fsf.org</a>.]</p>
+redistribute and modify), and Deluxe Distributions (distributions for
+which we built the whole collection of software for the customer's
+choice of platform). Today the FSF
+still <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/"> sells manuals and other
+gear</a>, but it gets the bulk of its funding from members' dues. You
+can join the FSF at <a href="http://fsf.org/join">fsf.org</a>.</p>
<p>Free Software Foundation employees have written and maintained a
number of GNU software packages. Two notable ones are the C library
@@ -846,15 +844,10 @@
patented features. But those who value free software because they
expect it to be technically superior are likely to call it a failure
when a patent holds it back. Thus, while it is useful to talk about
-the practical effectiveness of the “cathedral” model of
-development (1), and the reliability and power of some free software,
+the practical effectiveness of the “bazaar” model of
+development, and the reliability and power of some free software,
we must not stop there. We must talk about freedom and principle.</p>
-<p>
-(1) It would have been clearer to write ‘of the
-“bazaar” model’, since that was the alternative that
-was new and initially controversial. </p>
-
<h3>Free documentation</h3>
<p>
The biggest deficiency in our free operating systems is not in the
@@ -1027,7 +1020,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/06/28 11:42:53 $
+$Date: 2010/06/28 23:16:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Jeanne Rasata, 2010/06/24
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Yavor Doganov, 2010/06/25
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Richard M. Stallman, 2010/06/26
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Matt Lee, 2010/06/27
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Matt Lee, 2010/06/27
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Matt Lee, 2010/06/27
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Jeanne Rasata, 2010/06/28
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Jeanne Rasata, 2010/06/28
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Jeanne Rasata, 2010/06/28
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html,
Richard M. Stallman <=
- www/gnu thegnuproject.html, Richard M. Stallman, 2010/06/30