# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1116079956 0 # Node ID b74315cd6017791f65b716b1c91f43cffcd71750 # Parent d86e84b2256da05fbc740d6146e75454e8058f5a Update footnotes. diff -r d86e84b2256d -r b74315cd6017 etc/GNU --- a/etc/GNU Sat May 14 14:09:36 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/GNU Sat May 14 14:12:36 2005 +0000 @@ -518,23 +518,19 @@ (3) Several such companies now exist. - (4) The Free Software Foundation raises most of its funds from a -distribution service, although it is a charity rather than a company. -If *no one* chooses to obtain copies by ordering from the FSF, it -will be unable to do its work. But this does not mean that proprietary -restrictions are justified to force every user to pay. If a small -fraction of all the users order copies from the FSF, that is sufficient -to keep the FSF afloat. So we ask users to choose to support us in -this way. Have you done your part? + (4) The Free Software Foundation raisesd most of its funds for 10 +years from a distribution service, although it is a charity rather +than a company. - (5) A group of computer companies recently pooled funds to support -maintenance of the GNU C Compiler. + (5) A group of computer companies pooled funds around 1991 to +support maintenance of the GNU C Compiler. (6) In the 80s I had not yet realized how confusing it was to speak of "the issue" of "intellectual property". That term is obviously biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together various disparate laws which raise very different issues. Nowadays I urge people to reject the term "intellectual property" entirely, lest it -lead others to suppose this is one coherent issue. The way to be +lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent issue. The way to be clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately. -See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html. \ No newline at end of file +See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml for more explanation +of how this term spreads confusion and bias.