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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/philosophy rms-kernel-trap-interview.html |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 09:20:20 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 17/07/30 09:20:20
Modified files:
philosophy : rms-kernel-trap-interview.html
Log message:
Fix a few typos.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/rms-kernel-trap-interview.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7
Patches:
Index: rms-kernel-trap-interview.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/rms-kernel-trap-interview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- rms-kernel-trap-interview.html 29 Jul 2017 06:41:58 -0000 1.6
+++ rms-kernel-trap-interview.html 30 Jul 2017 13:20:20 -0000 1.7
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
<p>We began this interview via email, but later had to finish by
telephone after Richard Stallman fell and broke his arm. He was kind
enough to speak with me at length, discussing his first contact with
-computers, his time in the AI lab, the current state of the GNU Hurd,
+computers, his time in the AI Lab, the current state of the GNU Hurd,
his current role in the Free Software Foundation, the problems with
nonfree software, and much more. The following words offer much
insight into how we got here, and what challenges we still face.</p>
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
<p><strong>JA</strong>: You regularly have to explain the differences
between “free software” and “open source
software,” and yet the media continues to confuse these
-terms. For our readers that may therefor be confused themselves, can
+terms. For our readers that may therefore be confused themselves, can
you explain the differences, and why it is important to get it
right?</p>
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
<h3>“GNU/Linux”</h3>
<p><strong>JA</strong>: Another frequent area of confusion is the name
-'GNU/Linux'. Why is the GNU project's contribution significant enough
+“GNU/Linux.” Why is the GNU project's contribution significant
enough
that it should be in the name of the operating system, especially
compared to other large pieces of any Linux-kernel based operating
system, such as XFree86?</p>
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: What's lost is an opportunity to
teach people. The software is equally free regardless of whatever name
you call it—if, that is, the distro you're using really is
-free. But the only free GNU/Linux distro I know of is UTUTO. Most
+free. But the only free GNU/Linux distro I know of is Ututo. Most
versions of the GNU/Linux system are not entirely free software. All
the commercial distributors put in nonfree software. And then there's
Debian which keeps all the nonfree software clearly separated, but
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: I wouldn't say I desire to, but
it's necessary that I do so. At the moment we don't have anyone to
-replace me. We're actually thinking about how we we could try and
+replace me. We're actually thinking about how we could try and
develop people who could do this, so that I will not be
indispensable.</p>
@@ -406,8 +406,8 @@
what your reaction would have been to the book when it came out.</p>
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: His book made it sound like
-Emacs, or actually movemail I think it was… His book made it sound
-like it was normal to install movemail setuid. I think some people
+Emacs, or actually Movemail I think it was… His book made it sound
+like it was normal to install Movemail setuid. I think some people
sometimes did that, as there was a certain problem you could get
around by doing that, but that wasn't the normal way to install it. So
in fact, people installing Emacs the usual way would not have had that
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
<p>On the other hand, it certainly was useful to make Emacs more
bulletproof, so that that problem couldn't happen even if you
-installed movemail as setuid.</p>
+installed Movemail as setuid.</p>
<p>That was ages ago.</p>
@@ -503,10 +503,10 @@
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: FTAA. The World Trade
Organization. NAFTA. These treaties are designed to reduce wages by
-making it easy for a company to say to various countries, “which
+making it easy for a company to say to various countries, “Which
of you will let us pay people the least? That's were we're
headed.” And if any country starts having a somewhat increased
-standard of living, companies say “oh, this is a bad labor
+standard of living, companies say, “Oh, this is a bad labor
climate here. You're not making a good climate for business. All the
business is going to go away. You better make sure that people get
paid less. You're following a foolish policy arranging for workers of
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
decently?” The answer is: in the world of the low wage treaties,
they're not going to.</p>
-<p>It's inconsistent and future to subject millions of people to the
+<p>It's inconsistent and futile to subject millions of people to the
loss of freedom that nonfree software imposes, just so that a tiny
segment of society will have better paying jobs, when we're ignoring
all the rest of society with their lousy jobs.</p>
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@
things are catching up?</p>
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: We already have. We already have
-seen a technical innovations in free software. A lot of them help make
+seen technical innovations in free software. A lot of them help make
up the world wide web.</p>
<h3>The Internet</h3>
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
question.</p>
<p><strong>JA</strong>: Software not only runs on personal computers,
-but also the computers that comprise the Internet…</p>
+but also on the computers that comprise the Internet…</p>
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: That may mean your computer. If
your computer is on the Internet, then that's one of the computers
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@
<p><strong>JA</strong>: Embedded applications have become more and
more prevalent in society. Is it possible to completely avoid nonfree
-software and still remain in-touch with current technologies?</p>
+software and still remain in touch with current technologies?</p>
<p><strong>Richard Stallman</strong>: I don't know if it is possible,
but if it is not, that is something we need to change. Once an
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/07/29 06:41:58 $
+$Date: 2017/07/30 13:20:20 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
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