Re: [PATCH]: domain names note

[Richard Stallman]

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    +<p>Note that these services are referred to by their domain names,
    +rather than their common names (eg: savannah.gnu.org vs. Savannah).
    +That is because the underlying software, running on most of these
    +servers, is also available for self-hosting as Free Software.
    +This list focuses primarily on the ethics of the service operators,
    +rather than the properties of the server software;
    +so it is important to emphasize that these criteria were applied
    +only to each specific instance, operated by a specific organization.
    +Only one of these criteria (A1) relates to the server software.</p>

That is a good start.  Here I improve the wording in a few places.

    +<p>We refer to these services by their domain names,
    +rather than their common names (eg: savannah.gnu.org vs. Savannah).
    +That is because the software for most of these
    +services is also available for self-hosting as Free Software.
    +Installing that software on your own server and using it yourself
    +avoids most of these ethical issues (all but A1).</p>
    +
    +<p>Therefore, here we address the ethics of the service operators.</p>

It is the same points, but written more clearly.
WDYT?

Meanwhile, I see that the items for Github and Gitlab still refer to
those names instead of github.com and gitlab.com.  Would someone
like to fix that?

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