Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaime E . Villate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:33:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 09:21:13PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >> > > I would point out that the FSF has rewritten its views as well. For >> > > example, I protested that the FSF's acceptance of invariant sections >> > > contradicted its own reasing in the "why free manuals are important" >> > > document; the result was that the FSF changed the document. >> > >> > Do you have the previous version of the document? >> You can easily do that using the viewcvs interface to www.gnu.org >> >> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/?cvsroot=www.gnu.org >> ... >> I've failed to find the document "why free manuals are important" that >> Thomas Bushnell refers. Can he point out in viewcvs the two versions >> where the alleged change of the document occurred and some prove of >> the correlation with his protest? > > Well, that document is free-doc.html, so: > > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/philosophy/free-doc.html?cvsroot=www.gnu.org > > CVS begins Feb 13 2001. The first version is pretty much the same as > the first. Did this happens before 2001?
The oldest version the Wayback Machine has is from February 24, 1999, and is identical to the current version. See http://web.archive.org/web/19990224050619/www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html --Dylan
