diff man/gnu.texi @ 77129:4805684e0b00

wording for 8.5x11
author Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
date Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:57:52 +0000
parents 4ad431d8e164
children 02b9a9aa5b0c e6fdae9180d4
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--- a/man/gnu.texi	Wed Apr 11 20:06:57 2007 +0000
+++ b/man/gnu.texi	Wed Apr 11 20:57:52 2007 +0000
@@ -41,10 +41,9 @@
 that different wording could help avoid.  Footnotes added in 1993 help
 clarify these points.
 
-For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, please
-see @uref{http://www.gnu.org}.  For software tasks to work on, see
-@uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist}.  For other ways to
-contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}.
+For up-to-date information about available GNU software, please see
+our web site, @uref{http://www.gnu.org}.  For software tasks and other
+ways to contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}.
 @end quotation
 
 @unnumberedsec What's GNU?  Gnu's Not Unix!
@@ -503,10 +502,11 @@
 employ programmers.
 
 People with new ideas could distribute programs as
-freeware@footnote{Subsequently we have learned to distinguish between
-"free software" and "freeware".  The term "freeware" means software
-you are free to redistribute, but usually you are not free to study
-and change the source code, so most of it is not free software.  See
+freeware@footnote{Subsequently we have discovered the need to
+distinguish between ``free software'' and ``freeware''.  The term
+``freeware'' means software you are free to redistribute, but usually
+you are not free to study and change the source code, so most of it is
+not free software.  See
 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html} for more
 explanation.}, asking for donations from satisfied users, or selling
 hand-holding services.  I have met people who are already working this