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www/philosophy floss-and-foss.html
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
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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 @@
“FLOSS,” meaning “Free/Libre and Open Source
Software,” 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 “FOSS,” which stands for “Free
-and Open Source Software.” This is meant to mean the same thing
-as “FLOSS,” but it is less clear, since it fails to
-explain that “free” refers to “freedom.” It
-also makes “free software” less visible than “open
-source”, since it presents “open source” prominently
-but splits “free software” apart.</p>
+<p>Others use the term “FOSS,” which stands for
+“Free and Open Source Software.” This is meant to mean the
+same thing as “FLOSS,” but it is less clear, since it
+fails to explain that “free” refers to <em>freedom</em>.
+It also makes “free software” less visible than
+“open source”, since it presents “open source”
+prominently but splits “free software” apart.</p>
<p>Thus, if you want to be neutral between free software and open
source, the way to achieve that is to say “FLOSS,”, not
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/11/20 15:20:23 $
+$Date: 2013/11/20 19:02:23 $
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</p>
</div>