care whether these users had freedom, only that they should be
numerous.
- This lead to a paradoxical situation where two different ways of
+ This led to a paradoxical situation where two different ways of
counting the amount of freedom gave different answers to the question,
"Is this program free?" If you judged based on the freedom provided by
the distribution terms of the MIT release, you would say that X was
Those of us who value free software for freedom's sake will stay with
free software anyway. We will manage to get work done without the
patented features. But those who value free software because they
- expect it to be techically superior are likely to call it a failure
+ expect it to be technically superior are likely to call it a failure
when a patent holds it back. Thus, while it is useful to talk about the
practical effectiveness of the "cathedral" model of development (1),
and the reliability and power of some free software, we must not stop