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@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ systems (including GNU/Linux) to serve files to Microsoft Windows systems.
Two graduate students originally developed Samba in their spare time and
it was deployed noncommercially in academic environments\footnote{See
\href{http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/docs/samba/history}{Andrew Tridgell's
``A bit of history and a bit of fun''}. However, very
``A bit of history and a bit of fun''}}. However, very
soon for-profit companies discovered that the software could work for them
as well, and their system administrators began to use it in place of
Microsoft Windows NT file-servers. This served to lower the cost of
@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ counter to the goals of the GNU project. RMS invented ``copyleft'' as an
answer to that problem, and began using various copyleft licenses for the
early GNU project programs\footnote{RMS writes more fully about this topic in
his essay entitled simply
\href{http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html}{\textit{The GNU Project}.
\href{http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html}{\textit{The GNU Project}}.
For those who want to hear the story in his own voice,
\href{http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/}{speech recordings} of his talk,
\textit{The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System}
@ -767,10 +767,10 @@ In January 1989, the FSF announced that the GPL had been converted into a
``subroutine'' that could be reused not just for all FSF-copyrighted
programs, but also by anyone else. As the FSF claimed in its announcement of
the GPLv1\footnote{The announcement of GPLv1 was published in the
\href{http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull6.html#SEC8}{GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1
no. 6, January, 1989}. Thanks very much to Andy Tai for his
\href{http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull6.html\#SEC8}{GNU'S Bulletin, vol 1,
number 6 dated January 1989}. (Thanks very much to Andy Tai for his
\href{http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/}{consolidation of research on
the history of the pre-v1 GPL's.}:
the history of the pre-v1 GPL's}.)}:
\begin{quotation}
To make it easier to copyleft programs, we have been improving on the
legalbol architecture of the General Public License to produce a new version