www/philosophy x.html self-interest.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 20/07/08 08:29:40

Modified files:
        philosophy     : x.html self-interest.html 

Log message:
        Remove/replace <tt>; restyle.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/x.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.37&r2=1.38
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/self-interest.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19

Patches:
Index: x.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/x.html,v
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diff -u -b -r1.37 -r1.38
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+++ x.html      8 Jul 2020 12:29:40 -0000       1.38
@@ -9,13 +9,12 @@
 
 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/x.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-
+<div class="reduced-width">
 <h2>The X Window System Trap</h2>
 
-<p>
-  by <strong>Richard M. Stallman</strong>
-</p>
-
+<p class="byline">by Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<hr class="thin">
+<div class="article">
 <p>
 To copyleft or not to copyleft?  That is one of the major
 controversies in the free software community.  The idea of copyleft is
@@ -118,7 +117,8 @@
 these programs, and the benefit of copylefting our changes would be
 less than the harm done by a fork in development.  So it is better to
 work with them, and not copyleft our changes on these programs.
-Likewise for utilities such as <tt>xset</tt> and <tt>xrdb</tt>, which are 
close to the
+Likewise for utilities such as <code>xset</code> and <code>xrdb</code>,
+which are close to the
 core of X and do not need major improvements.  At least we know that
 the X.org group has a firm commitment to developing these programs as
 free software.</p>
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@
 equipped with more resources than scruples.  With copyleft, we can
 defend freedom, not just for ourselves, but for our whole
 community.</p>
-
+</div>
+</div>
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/12/14 09:55:39 $
+$Date: 2020/07/08 12:29:40 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>

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+++ self-interest.html  8 Jul 2020 12:29:40 -0000       1.19
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.92 -->
 <title>Self-Interest
 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/self-interest.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<div class="reduced-width">
 <h2>Self-Interest</h2>
 
-<p>by <strong>Loyd Fueston</strong></p>
+<p class="byline">by Loyd Fueston</p>
+<hr class="thin" />
 
+<div class="article">
 <p>
 Is Self-Interest Sufficient to Organize a Free Economy?</p>
 
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@
 we find the following summaries of Smith's view about
 self-interest:</p>
 
-<blockquote><p>
+<blockquote class="italic"><p>
 Far from being an individualist, Smith believed it is the influence
 of society that transforms people into moral beings. He thought that
 people often misjudge their own self-interest.
@@ -30,18 +33,13 @@
 <p>
 Even more directly to the point:</p>
 
-<blockquote><p>
+<blockquote class="italic"><p>
 [Adam Smith] regarded the attempt to explain all human behavior on
 the basis of self-interest as analytically misguided and morally
-pernicious.
+pernicious.&nbsp;<a href="#fn1">[1]</a>
 </p></blockquote>
 
 <p>
-[Both quotes are from page 2 of &ldquo;Adam Smith: In His Time and
-Ours&rdquo;, Jerry Z. Muller, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
-1993.]</p>
-
-<p>
 As Adam Smith certainly realized, self-interest will be one of the
 principal forces organizing economic activities in any society, but
 that is as true of the most repressive or brutal society as it is of
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@
 to sacrifice, or at least qualify, their own self-interest. In the
 words of Thomas Sowell, a free-market theorist of our time:</p>
 
-<blockquote><p>
+<blockquote class="italic"><p>
 There are, of course, noneconomic values.  Indeed, there are
 <em>only</em> noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but
 merely a method of trading off one value against another.  If
@@ -109,8 +107,7 @@
 or to exempt some particular value from the trade-off process, then
 such selfless ideals can be no more effectively demonstrated than by
 trading off financial gains in the interest of such ideals. This is an
-economic trade-off. <tt>[from page 79 of &ldquo;Knowledge &amp;
-Decisions&rdquo;, Thomas Sowell, New York: Basic Books, 1980.]</tt>
+economic trade-off.&nbsp;<a href="#fn2">[2]</a>
 </p></blockquote>
 
 <p>
@@ -133,7 +130,20 @@
 the preservation of liberty in the society as a whole or the
 preservation of a cooperative spirit within communities of
 programmers, or maybe both of those at the same time.</p>
+</div>
 
+<div class="infobox">
+<h3>Footnotes</h3>
+<ol>
+ <li id="fn1">Both quotes are from page 2 of &ldquo;Adam Smith: In His Time and
+Ours&rdquo;, Jerry Z. Muller, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
+1993.</li>
+ <li id="fn2">From page 79 of &ldquo;Knowledge &amp; Decisions&rdquo;,
+Thomas Sowell, New York: Basic Books, 1980.</li>
+</ol>
+</div>
+
+</div>
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@@ -191,7 +201,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/08/18 06:25:35 $
+$Date: 2020/07/08 12:29:40 $
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 </div>