www/gnu initial-announcement.html

[Ineiev]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Ineiev <ineiev> 22/02/20 03:20:40

Modified files:
        gnu            : initial-announcement.html 

Log message:
        Add more notes, per www-discuss <E1nKpyJ-0004za-VB@fencepost.gnu.org>

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/initial-announcement.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.47&r2=1.48

Patches:
Index: initial-announcement.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/gnu/initial-announcement.html,v
retrieving revision 1.47
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -b -r1.47 -r1.48
--- initial-announcement.html   2 Nov 2021 17:33:49 -0000       1.47
+++ initial-announcement.html   20 Feb 2022 08:20:38 -0000      1.48
@@ -234,11 +234,28 @@
 
 <h3 id="f1" class="footnote">Footnote</h3>
 <ol>
-<li><em>The wording here was careless.</em>  The intention was that nobody 
would
+<li>
+<p><em>The wording here was careless.</em>  The intention was that nobody would
 have to pay for <b>permission</b> to use the GNU system.  But the
 words don't make this clear, and people often interpret them as saying
 that copies of GNU should always be distributed at little or no
-charge.  That was never the intent.</li>
+charge.  That was never the intent.  Subsequently I have learned to
+distinguish carefully between &ldquo;free&rdquo; in the sense of
+freedom and &ldquo;free&rdquo; in the sense of price.  Free software
+is software that users have the freedom to distribute and change.
+Some users may obtain copies at no charge, while others pay to obtain
+copies&mdash;and if the funds help support improving the software, so much
+the better.  The important thing is that everyone who has a copy has
+the freedom to cooperate with others in using it.
+</p>
+
+<p>The expression &ldquo;give away&rdquo; is another
+indication that I had not yet clearly separated the issue of price
+from that of freedom.  We now recommend avoiding this expression when
+talking about free software.  See
+&ldquo;<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#GiveAwaySoftware">Confusing
+Words and Phrases</a>&rdquo; for more explanation.</p>
+</li>
 </ol>
 
 </div>
@@ -301,7 +318,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/11/02 17:33:49 $
+$Date: 2022/02/20 08:20:38 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>