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39  that different wording could help avoid.  Footnotes added in 1993 help  that different wording could help avoid.  Footnotes added in 1993 help
40  clarify these points.  clarify these points.
41    
42  For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, please see  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  see @uref{http://www.gnu.org}.  For software tasks to work on, see
44  include here.  @uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist}.  For other ways to
45    contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}.
46  @end quotation  @end quotation
47    
48  @unnumberedsec What's GNU?  Gnu's Not Unix!  @unnumberedsec What's GNU?  Gnu's Not Unix!
# Line 380  practice they would still make considera Line 381  practice they would still make considera
381  other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more  other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more
382  difficult.  difficult.
383    
384  People who have studied the issue of intellectual property rights carefully  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
395  (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual  (such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual
396  property.  The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the  property.  The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the
397  government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for  government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for
# Line 489  operating systems onto the new hardware. Line 500  operating systems onto the new hardware.
500  The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also  The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also
501  employ programmers.  employ programmers.
502    
503  People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking for  People with new ideas could distribute programs as
504  donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services.  I have  freeware@footnote{Subsequently we have learned to distinguish between
505  met people who are already working this way successfully.  "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.
512    
513  Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues.  A group  Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues.  A group
514  would contract with programming companies to write programs that the  would contract with programming companies to write programs that the

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