-That was the world Richard Stallman was born into, and while he
-was a researcher at MIT, he grew to love the community that
- developed
-when one was free to explore and tinker with the software that
-ran on machines. Being a smart sort himself, and a talented
- programmer,
-Stallman grew to depend upon the freedom to add to or modify
-other people's work.
-</para>
-<para>
-In an academic setting, at least, that's not a terribly radical idea. In
-a math department, anyone would be free to tinker with a proof that
-someone offered. If you thought you had a better way to prove a
- theorem,
-you could take what someone else did and change it. In a classics
-department, if you believed a colleague's translation of a recently
- discovered
-text was flawed, you were free to improve it. Thus, to Stallman,
-it seemed obvious that you should be free to tinker with and improve
-the code that ran a machine. This, too, was knowledge. Why shouldn't
-it be open for criticism like anything else?
+That was the world Richard Stallman was born into, and while he was a
+researcher at MIT, he grew to love the community that developed when
+one was free to explore and tinker with the software that ran on
+machines. Being a smart sort himself, and a talented programmer,
+Stallman grew to depend upon the freedom to add to or modify other
+people's work.
+</para>
+<para>
+In an academic setting, at least, that's not a terribly radical
+idea. In a math department, anyone would be free to tinker with a
+proof that someone offered. If you thought you had a better way to
+prove a theorem, you could take what someone else did and change
+it. In a classics department, if you believed a colleague's
+translation of a recently discovered text was flawed, you were free to
+improve it. Thus, to Stallman, it seemed obvious that you should be
+free to tinker with and improve the code that ran a machine. This,
+too, was knowledge. Why shouldn't it be open for criticism like
+anything else?