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| author | Richard M. Stallman | 2005-07-07 22:54:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman | 2005-07-07 22:54:34 +0000 |
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Update where to get GNU status; add refs for how to help.
Add footnotes 6 and 7.
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diff --git a/man/gnu.texi b/man/gnu.texi index 4185f8f9114..d28a4dd0350 100644 --- a/man/gnu.texi +++ b/man/gnu.texi | |||
| @@ -39,9 +39,10 @@ Since that time, we have learned about certain common misunderstandings | |||
| 39 | that different wording could help avoid. Footnotes added in 1993 help | 39 | that different wording could help avoid. Footnotes added in 1993 help |
| 40 | clarify these points. | 40 | clarify these points. |
| 41 | 41 | ||
| 42 | For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, please see | 42 | For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, please |
| 43 | the latest issue of the GNU's Bulletin. The list is much too long to | 43 | see @uref{http://www.gnu.org}. For software tasks to work on, see |
| 44 | include here. | 44 | @uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist}. For other ways to |
| 45 | contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}. | ||
| 45 | @end quotation | 46 | @end quotation |
| 46 | 47 | ||
| 47 | @unnumberedsec What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! | 48 | @unnumberedsec What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! |
| @@ -380,7 +381,17 @@ practice they would still make considerably more than that.) | |||
| 380 | other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more | 381 | other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more |
| 381 | difficult. | 382 | difficult. |
| 382 | 383 | ||
| 383 | People who have studied the issue of intellectual property rights carefully | 384 | People who have studied the issue of intellectual property |
| 385 | rights@footnote{n the 80s I had not yet realized how confusing it was | ||
| 386 | to speak of ``the issue'' of ``intellectual property.'' That term is | ||
| 387 | obviously biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together | ||
| 388 | various disparate laws which raise very different issues. Nowadays I | ||
| 389 | urge people to reject the term ``intellectual property'' entirely, | ||
| 390 | lest it lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent | ||
| 391 | issue. The way to be clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and | ||
| 392 | trademarks separately. See | ||
| 393 | @uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml} for more | ||
| 394 | explanation of how this term spreads confusion and bias.} carefully | ||
| 384 | (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual | 395 | (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual |
| 385 | property. The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the | 396 | property. The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the |
| 386 | government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for | 397 | government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for |
| @@ -489,9 +500,15 @@ operating systems onto the new hardware. | |||
| 489 | The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also | 500 | The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also |
| 490 | employ programmers. | 501 | employ programmers. |
| 491 | 502 | ||
| 492 | People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking for | 503 | People with new ideas could distribute programs as |
| 493 | donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services. I have | 504 | freeware@footnote{Subsequently we have learned to distinguish between |
| 494 | met people who are already working this way successfully. | 505 | "free software" and "freeware". The term "freeware" means software |
| 506 | you are free to redistribute, but usually you are not free to study | ||
| 507 | and change the source code, so most of it is not free software. See | ||
| 508 | @uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html} for more | ||
| 509 | explanation.}, asking for donations from satisfied users, or selling | ||
| 510 | hand-holding services. I have met people who are already working this | ||
| 511 | way successfully. | ||
| 495 | 512 | ||
| 496 | Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues. A group | 513 | Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues. A group |
| 497 | would contract with programming companies to write programs that the | 514 | would contract with programming companies to write programs that the |