www/gnu thegnuproject.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/10/24 03:23:33

Modified files:
        gnu            : thegnuproject.html 

Log message:
        Place references to footnotes more logically.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.95&r2=1.96

Patches:
Index: thegnuproject.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html,v
retrieving revision 1.95
retrieving revision 1.96
diff -u -b -r1.95 -r1.96
--- thegnuproject.html  24 Oct 2021 07:05:40 -0000      1.95
+++ thegnuproject.html  24 Oct 2021 07:23:33 -0000      1.96
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 <p>
 The AI Lab used a timesharing operating system called
 <abbr title="Incompatible Timesharing System">ITS</abbr> (the
-Incompatible Timesharing System) that the lab's staff hackers&nbsp;<a 
href="#ft1">[1]</a> had
+Incompatible Timesharing System) that the lab's staff hackers&#8239;<a 
href="#ft1">[1]</a> had
 designed and written in assembler language for the Digital
 <abbr title="Programmed Data Processor">PDP</abbr>-10, one of
 the large computers of the era.  As a member of this community, an AI
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 Multics had them, VMS had them, and Unix had them.  The GNU operating
 system would include them too.</p>
 <p>
-Later I heard these words, attributed to Hillel&nbsp;<a 
href="#ft2">[2]</a>:</p>
+Later I heard these words, attributed to Hillel&#8239;<a 
href="#ft2">[2]</a>:</p>
 
 <blockquote><p>
      If I am not for myself, who will be for me?<br />
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
 The goal of GNU was to give users freedom, not just to be popular.  So
 we needed to use distribution terms that would prevent GNU software
 from being turned into proprietary software.  The method we use is
-called &ldquo;copyleft.&rdquo;<a href="#ft3">[3]</a></p>
+called &ldquo;copyleft&rdquo;&#8239;<a href="#ft3">[3]</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Copyleft uses copyright law, but flips it over to serve the opposite
 of its usual purpose: instead of a means for restricting a program, it
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
 have other kinds of copyleft that are used in specific circumstances.
 GNU manuals are copylefted also, but use a much simpler kind of
 copyleft, because the complexity of the GNU GPL is not necessary
-for manuals.<a href="#ft4">[4]</a></p>
+for manuals.&#8239;<a href="#ft4">[4]</a></p>
 
 <h3>The Free Software Foundation</h3>
 
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
 a member of the Free Software Foundation staff, Roland McGrath.  The
 shell used on most GNU/Linux systems is
 <abbr title="Bourne Again Shell">BASH</abbr>, the Bourne Again
-SHell,<a href="#ft5">[5]</a> which was developed by FSF employee Brian Fox.</p>
+SHell&#8239;<a href="#ft5">[5]</a>, which was developed by FSF employee Brian 
Fox.</p>
 
 <p>We funded development of these programs because the GNU Project was
 not just about tools or a development environment.  Our goal was a
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
 other useful software and documentation projects that, we thought, a
 truly complete system ought to have.</p>
 
-<p>Today,<a href="#ft6">[6]</a> hardly any Unix components are left in the GNU 
Task
+<p>Today&#8239;<a href="#ft6">[6]</a>, hardly any Unix components are left in 
the GNU Task
 List&mdash;those jobs had been done, aside from a few inessential
 ones.  But the list is full of projects that some might call
 &ldquo;applications.&rdquo;  Any program that appeals to more than a
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
 <h3>The GNU Library GPL</h3>
 
 <p>The GNU C library uses a special kind of copyleft called the GNU
-Library General Public License,<a href="#ft7">[7]</a> which gives permission 
to link
+Library General Public License&#8239;<a href="#ft7">[7]</a>, which gives 
permission to link
 proprietary software with the library.  Why make this exception?</p>
 
 <p>It is not a matter of principle; there is no principle that says
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
 strong feeling that free software is a matter of principle, and
 nonfree drivers are intolerable.  And will large numbers of us spend
 extra money, or even a little extra time, so we can use free drivers?
-Yes, if the determination to have freedom is widespread.<a 
href="#ft8">[8]</a></p>
+Yes, if the determination to have freedom is widespread.&#8239;<a 
href="#ft8">[8]</a></p>
 
 
 <h3>Nonfree libraries</h3>
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
 way to be sure, but I think that this was partly due to the
 community's firm response to the problem that Qt posed when it was
 nonfree.  (The new license is inconvenient and inequitable, so it
-remains desirable to avoid using Qt.)&nbsp;<a href="#ft9">[9]</a></p>
+remains desirable to avoid using Qt.&#8239;<a href="#ft9">[9]</a>)</p>
 <p>
 How will we respond to the next tempting nonfree library?  Will the
 whole community understand the need to stay out of the trap?  Or will
@@ -810,10 +810,10 @@
 algorithms and features off limits to free software for up to twenty
 years.  The LZW compression algorithm patents were applied for in
 1983, and we still cannot release free software to produce proper
-compressed <abbr title="Graphics Interchange Format">GIF</abbr>s.<a 
href="#ft10">[10]</a>
+compressed <abbr title="Graphics Interchange Format">GIF</abbr>s.&#8239;<a 
href="#ft10">[10]</a>
 In 1998, a free program to produce
 <abbr title="MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3">MP3</abbr> compressed audio
-was removed from distribution under threat of a patent suit.<a 
href="#ft11">[11]</a>
+was removed from distribution under threat of a patent suit.&#8239;<a 
href="#ft11">[11]</a>
 </p>
 <p>
 There are ways to cope with patents: we can search for evidence that a
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/10/24 07:05:40 $
+$Date: 2021/10/24 07:23:33 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
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