www/philosophy rms-hack.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/09/22 07:14:52

Modified files:
        philosophy     : rms-hack.html 

Log message:
        (l|r)squo > (
        l|r)dquo; fix 2 typos; americanize spelling.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/rms-hack.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.22&r2=1.23

Patches:
Index: rms-hack.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/rms-hack.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- rms-hack.html       9 Sep 2021 20:25:37 -0000       1.22
+++ rms-hack.html       22 Sep 2021 11:14:52 -0000      1.23
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 share and change software; that was the basis for our free-wheeling
 community.</p>
 <p>
-<b>TV:</b> What does the word &lsquo;hacker&rsquo; mean to you,
+<b>TV:</b> What does the word &ldquo;hacker&rdquo; mean to you,
 personally?</p>
 <p>
 <b>RMS:</b> It means someone who enjoys playful cleverness, especially
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 <p><b>RMS:</b> More or less. I would say that freedom has value in
 itself, just as powerful reliable software does.</p>
 
-<p><b>TV:</b> But isn't there a problem here; one of the utilitarian
+<p><b>TV:</b> But isn't there a problem here? one of the utilitarian
 calculations of &ldquo;open source&rdquo; is that it is more
 profitable&mdash;in the sense of making more money or making better
 software&mdash;to use an open source license than a copyleft
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
 <p><b>TV:</b> The question about hacker aesthetics&mdash;as you
 explained, there is no special hacker ethics, because a hacker can act
 ethically or unethically and nothing in hackerism itself necessitates
-ethical behaviour.</p>
+ethical behavior.</p>
 
 <p><b>RMS:</b> Hacking is not primarily about an ethical issue. It is an idea 
of
 what makes life meaningful. But he may be right that hacking tends to
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
 <h3>Community</h3>
 
 <p><b>TV:</b> Now that brings to mind several questions. For the
-first, one could maybe inquire after an ideal society or do forth, but
+first, one could maybe inquire after an ideal society or go forth, but
 let's leave that for the moment.</p>
 
 <p><b>RMS:</b> I approach these issues incrementally. I don't think I
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 
 <p><b>TV:</b> Is there something that digitalization offers for
 community-building, something that other media (like printed books)
-could not offer, or does digitalization mean &lsquo;just&rsquo; and
+could not offer, or does digitalization mean &ldquo;just&rdquo; an
 effectivization of existing means?</p>
 
 <p><b>RMS:</b> Computers and the web make it much easier to work
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
 
 <p><b>TV:</b> You have touched on some issues of globalization is some
 recent interviews. One of the problems is that copyright laws put many
-third world countries in an unfavourable position. Do you think that
+third world countries in an unfavorable position. Do you think that
 those countries should not follow the copyright laws?</p>
 
 <p><b>RMS:</b> The US when it was a developing country did not
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
 <p><b>TV:</b> I think this is even quite common in fields like
 computer science, physics, mathematics, philosophy, where the
 austerity and purity of the formalism give an intense pleasure of a
-&lsquo;non-earthly&rsquo; kind. Is there a link? Should there be? And
+&ldquo;non-earthly&rdquo; kind. Is there a link? Should there be? And
 how do you bridge the two?</p>
 
 <p><b>RMS:</b> Is there a link between the pleasure of pure math and
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2021/09/09 20:25:37 $
+$Date: 2021/09/22 11:14:52 $
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 </p>
 </div>