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From: Richard M. Stallman
Subject: www/philosophy floss-and-foss.html
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:02:24 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/11/20 19:02:24

Modified files:
        philosophy     : floss-and-foss.html 

Log message:
        Minor cleanup.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Patches:
Index: floss-and-foss.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- floss-and-foss.html 20 Nov 2013 15:20:23 -0000      1.2
+++ floss-and-foss.html 20 Nov 2013 19:02:23 -0000      1.3
@@ -23,15 +23,15 @@
 &ldquo;FLOSS,&rdquo; meaning &ldquo;Free/Libre and Open Source
 Software,&rdquo; to explicitly avoid a preference between the two
 political camps.  If you wish to be neutral, this is a good way to do
-it.  It makes the names of the two camps equally prominent.</p>
+it, since this makes the names of the two camps equally prominent.</p>
 
-<p>Others use the term &ldquo;FOSS,&rdquo; which stands for &ldquo;Free
-and Open Source Software.&rdquo; This is meant to mean the same thing
-as &ldquo;FLOSS,&rdquo; but it is less clear, since it fails to
-explain that &ldquo;free&rdquo; refers to &ldquo;freedom.&rdquo; It
-also makes &ldquo;free software&rdquo; less visible than &ldquo;open
-source&rdquo;, since it presents &ldquo;open source&rdquo; prominently
-but splits &ldquo;free software&rdquo; apart.</p>
+<p>Others use the term &ldquo;FOSS,&rdquo; which stands for
+&ldquo;Free and Open Source Software.&rdquo; This is meant to mean the
+same thing as &ldquo;FLOSS,&rdquo; but it is less clear, since it
+fails to explain that &ldquo;free&rdquo; refers to <em>freedom</em>.
+It also makes &ldquo;free software&rdquo; less visible than
+&ldquo;open source&rdquo;, since it presents &ldquo;open source&rdquo;
+prominently but splits &ldquo;free software&rdquo; apart.</p>
 
 <p>Thus, if you want to be neutral between free software and open
 source, the way to achieve that is to say &ldquo;FLOSS,&rdquo;, not
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/11/20 15:20:23 $
+$Date: 2013/11/20 19:02:23 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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