www/philosophy floss-and-foss.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       13/12/04 12:54:25

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

Log message:
        Explain that sometimes "libre" is good without "free".

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6

Patches:
Index: floss-and-foss.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- floss-and-foss.html 21 Nov 2013 04:30:30 -0000      1.5
+++ floss-and-foss.html 4 Dec 2013 12:54:24 -0000       1.6
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
 <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html"> practical
 benefits only</a>.</p>
 
+<p>To emphasize that &ldquo;free software&rdquo; refers to freedom and
+not to price, we sometimes write or say &ldquo;free/libre
+software,&rdquo; adding the French or Spanish word that means free in
+the sense of freedom.  In some contexts, it works to use just
+&ldquo;libre software.&rdquo;
+
 <p>A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in
 the free software community decided that these questions were
 independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term
@@ -40,7 +46,7 @@
 <p>We in the free software movement don't do use either of these
 terms, because we don't want to be neutral on the political question.
 We stand for freedom, and we show it every time &mdash; by saying
-&ldquo;free software&rdquo; or &ldquo;free/libre software&rdquo;.</p>
+&ldquo;free&rdquo; and &ldquo;libre&rdquo;.</p>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 
@@ -83,7 +89,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2013/11/21 04:30:30 $
+$Date: 2013/12/04 12:54:24 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>