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Date submitted |
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Page iv
2nd para |
Wording in GFDL, would follow guidleines more closely with something like: ..."with
no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts".
(c.w. p:216 addendum)
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Anonymous |
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| Other Digital Version |
ch06.html
online book http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.html |
http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.html
"keystroke-triggerd" > triggered?
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Anonymous |
Jun 12, 2008 |
| Other Digital Version |
ch08
in openbook http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html |
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:19:33 -0400
From: "Nathan Krasnopoler" <nathan.krasnopoler@gmail.com>
To: webmaster@oreilly.com
Subject: Typo: on http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html parody is mispelled as pardoy
on http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch08.html parody is mispelled as
pardoy
I'm not sure what the proper protocol for submitting the problem is, so I
made a ticket type thing at
http://getsatisfaction.com/oreilly/topics/typo_in_free_as_in_freedom_chapter_8_
pardoy
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Anonymous |
Jun 12, 2008 |
| Printed |
Page 6
3rd paragraph |
Actually a historical error in this sentence:
"On the west coast...few low-level engineers...using this system."
This is an attempt to rewrite history.
1) Unix was written by some of the top engineers at Bell Labs. They also wrote C, C++
(in the 80s) and other software that pops up in the book.
2) The value of Berkeley's contribution to Unix in the 70s is debatable; depending on
how you feel about the vi editor...
Berkeley's important contribution to Unix was the TCP/IP stack, in the early 80s.
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Anonymous |
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| PDF, Other Digital Version |
Page 22
2nd paragraph |
In PDF version 2.0, on page 22, Richard Stallman is quotes as saying:
"We hackers always look for a funny or naughty name for a program, because naming a program is half the fun of writing the program. "
On the same page link is also given to the transcript of the speech from which above quoted statements are taken, but in the transcript he says
"We hackers always look for a funny or naughty name for a program, because thinking of people being amused by the name is half the fun of writing the program." ^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
which is as you can see is different from the one quoted in the book. Could you please clarify whether or not he is misquoted?
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Anonymous |
Jan 25, 2012 |
| Printed |
Page 36
endnote #1 |
The given link of http://www.mgross.com/interviews/stallman1.html is currently 404.
The interview can be found at:
http://www.mgross.com/MoreThgsChng/interviews/stallman1.html
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 63
3rd full paragraph |
Tim Ney never served as executive director of the FSF. He held the
positions of "Office Manager" and "Clerk of the Corporation".
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Anonymous |
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| ePub |
Page 100
middle |
“Stallman does managed to deliver the event’s best line”
should read
“Stallman does manage to deliver the event’s best line”
instead.
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Anonymous |
Sep 11, 2014 |
| Printed |
Page 105
2nd full paragraph |
The year of the Emacs release probably should be "1985", not "1995". While there may
have been an Emacs release in 1995, I think the author means the "1985" one in this
context.
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Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 125
2nd paragraph |
Some confusion with trn and patch
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Anonymous |
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Page 153
[footnote 3] http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/9780596002879/ch10.html |
Footnote 3 mentions a paper I wrote for Uniform NZ called "Why Linux is Successful".
The paper in all it's non-glory is available at http://liam.xinqu.net/linux-opinion.html
if you wish to provide a link on the page.
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Anonymous |
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Page 176
3rd full paragraph |
This is inaccurate. I was reading much of RMS' email at the time as part of my job
as his assistant. RMS spent a lot of time negotiating and working with Troll Tech to
help them move toward a GPL release, commenting on versions of the Qt license, and
trying to get them to choose GPL. It was RMS who finally explained to them how to
make a viable Free Software relicensing business using GNU GPL.
chapter 9;
(Sorry, I'm reading the online version and don't have the page number.)
> Jeremy Allison, a Sun user during the late 1980s and programmer
> destined to run his own free software project, Samba
Jeremy is co-maintainer of Samba and one of the most important developers, but I
think it's not "his own" project. The Samba project was started by Andrew Tridgell.
I suppose you should check with Jeremy what terminology he prefers.
See for example:
http://va.samba.org/samba/10years.html
> League of Programming Freedom
I think the name is actually "League *for* Programming Freedom". See lpf.ai.mit.edu,
etc.
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Anonymous |
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