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From: Richard M. Stallman
Subject: www/philosophy why-copyleft.html
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 05:36:17 -0500 (EST)

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       17/12/15 05:36:16

Modified files:
        philosophy     : why-copyleft.html 

Log message:
        Cleanups in the two examples of harm.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/why-copyleft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.40&r2=1.41

Patches:
Index: why-copyleft.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/why-copyleft.html,v
retrieving revision 1.40
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -b -r1.40 -r1.41
--- why-copyleft.html   11 Dec 2017 13:27:10 -0000      1.40
+++ why-copyleft.html   15 Dec 2017 10:36:14 -0000      1.41
@@ -56,15 +56,15 @@
 <li>Those who released LLVM under a non-copyleft
 license <a 
href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/5238/nvidia-releases-cuda-41-cuda-goes-llvm-and-open-source-kind-of";>enabled
 nVidia to release a high-quality nonfree compiler</a> for its GPUs,
-while keeping its instruction set secret.  This is why we can't write
-a free compiler for that platform.  The nonfree adaptation of LLVM is
-all there is for those machines, and (without a big reverse
-engineering job) all there ever will be.</li>
+while keeping its instruction set secret.  Thus, we can't write a free
+compiler for that platform without a big reverse engineering job.  The
+nonfree adaptation of LLVM is the only compiler for those machines,
+and is likely to remain so.</li>
 
 <li>Intel uses
 <a 
href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-removing-minix-management-engine-intel,35876.html";>a
 proprietary version of the MINIX system</a>, which is free but not
-copylefted, in the Management Engine back hole in its modern
+copylefted, in the Management Engine back door in its modern
 processors.</li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/12/11 13:27:10 $
+$Date: 2017/12/15 10:36:14 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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