Cleanup grammar and wording

1 files changed, 97 insertions, 93 deletions

diff --git a/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html b/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html
index 6f362a672..342b59170 100644
--- a/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html
+++ b/docs/uclibc.org/FAQ.html
@@ -78,12 +78,15 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
-    The letter 'u' is short for µ (the greek letter "mu").  µ is commonly used
-    as the abbreviation for the word "micro".  The capital "C" is short for
-    "controller".  So you uClibc is simply the microcontroller C library. 
-    This is because uClibc was originaly created to support uClinux, a port of
-    Linux for MMU-less microcontrollers such as the Dragonball, Coldfire, and
-    ARM7TDMI.  For simplicity, it is pronounced "yew-see-lib-see".
+    For simplicity, uClibc is pronounced "yew-see-lib-see".  The letter
+    'u' is short for µ (the greek letter "mu").  µ is commonly used as
+    the abbreviation for the word "micro".  The capital "C" is short
+    for "controller".  So uClibc is sortof an abbreviation for "the
+    microcontroller C library".  This is partly historical, since
+    uClibc was originally created to support <a href="http://www.uclinux.org">µClinux</a>, a port of Linux
+    for MMU-less microcontrollers such as the Dragonball, Coldfire, and
+    ARM7TDMI.  These days, uClibc works just fine with normal Linux
+    system (like on x86, strongArm, and powerpc). 
 
 
 
@@ -95,32 +98,34 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
-    Sure!  In fact, this can be very nice during development.  By using it on
-    your development system, you can be sure that the code you are working on
-    will actually run when you deploy it your target system.
-
+    Sure!  In fact, this can be very nice during development.  By
+    installing uClibc on your development system, you can be sure that
+    the code you are working on will actually run when you deploy it
+    your target system.
 
 
 <p>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left>
     <B>
-    Why are you doing this?  Whats wrong with glibc?
+    Why are you doing this?  What's wrong with glibc?
     </B>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
-    The inital reason, was that glibc does not support MMU-less systems.  But
-    also because uClibc is so much smaller then the GNU C library.  The GNU C
-    library has a different set of goals then uClibc.  The GNU C library is a
-    great piece of software.  It complies with just about every standard ever
-    created, and runs on just about every operating system as well -- no small
-    task!  But there is a price to be paid for that.  It is quite a large
-    library, and keeps getting larger with each release.  It does not even
-    pretend to target embedded systems.  To quote from Ulrich Drepper, the
-    maintainer of GNU libc: "...glibc is not the right thing for [an embedded
-    OS]. It is designed as a native library (as opposed to embedded).  Many
-    functions (e.g., printf) contain functionality which is not wanted in
-    embedded systems." 24 May 1999
+    Initially, the project began because glibc does not support
+    MMU-less systems.  But uClibc is also very useful because it is so
+    much smaller then the GNU C library.  The GNU C library is designed
+    with a very different set of goals then uClibc.  The GNU C library
+    is a great piece of software, make no mistake.  It is compliant to
+    just about every standard ever created, and runs on just about
+    every operating system and architecture -- no small task!  But
+    there is a price to be paid for that.  It is quite a large library,
+    and keeps getting larger with each release.  It does not even
+    pretend to target embedded systems.  To quote from Ulrich Drepper,
+    the maintainer of GNU libc: "...glibc is not the right thing for
+    [an embedded OS]. It is designed as a native library (as opposed to
+    embedded).  Many functions (e.g., printf) contain functionality
+    which is not wanted in embedded systems." 24 May 1999
 
 
 
@@ -133,20 +138,28 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
-    uClibc has been designed from the ground up to be a C library for embedded
-    Linux.  We don't need to worry about whether we support MS-DOS, or Cygwin,
-    or any other system.  This lets us cut out lots of complexity, and very
-    carefully optimize for Linux.  By very careful design, we can also take a
-    few shortcuts.  For example, glibc contains an implementation of the
-    wordexp() function, in compliance with the Single Unix Specificaion,
-    version 2.  Well, standards are important.  But so is pragmatism.  The
-    wordexp function is huge, and yet I am not aware of even one Linux
-    application that uses wordexp.  So uClibc doesn't provide wordexp().  There
-    are many similar examples.
+    uClibc has been designed from the ground up to be a C library for
+    embedded Linux.  We don't need to worry about things like MS-DOS
+    support, or Cygwin, or AmigaOs any other system.  This lets us cut out
+    a lot of complexity and very carefully optimize for Linux.  By very
+    careful design, we can also take a few shortcuts.  For example, glibc
+    contains an implementation of the wordexp() function, in compliance
+    with the Single Unix Specification, version 2.  Well, standards are
+    important.  But so is pragmatism.  The wordexp function is huge, yet I
+    am not aware of even one Linux application that uses it!  So uClibc
+    doesn't provide wordexp().  There are many similar examples.  In other
+    cases, uClibc leaves certain features (such as full C99 Math library
+    support, IPV6, and RPC support) disabled by default.  Those features
+    can be enabled for people that need then, but are otherwise disabled to
+    save space.
+
+    <p>
 
     Glibc is a general purpose C library, and so as policy things are optimized
-    for speed.  Most of uClibc's routines have been very carefuly written to
-    optimize them for size instead of speed.
+    for speed.  Most of uClibc's routines have been very carefully written to
+    optimize them for size instead.
+
+    <p>
 
     The end result is a C library that will compile just about everything you
     throw at it, that looks like glibc to application programs when you
@@ -163,12 +176,11 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
     I don't know if you should use uClibc or not.  It depends on your needs.
-    If you are building an embedded system, and you are tight on space, then
-    using uClibc instead if glibc should allow you to use your storage for
-    other things.
+    If you are building an embedded Linux system and you are tight on space, then
+    using uClibc instead if glibc may be a very good idea.
 
-    If you are trying to build a ultra fast fileserver for your company that
-    has 12 Terabytes of storage, then you probably want to use glibc... 
+    If you are trying to build a huge fileserver for your company that will
+    have 12 Terabytes of storage, then using glibc may make more sense... 
 
 
 
@@ -177,38 +189,28 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
     <B>
     I want to create a closed source commercial application and  I want to
     protect my intellectual property.  If I use uClibc, don't I have to 
-    release all my source code for free?
+    release all my source code for free?  Is that legal?
     </B>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
     No, you do not need to give away your source code just because you use
-    uClibc and/or run on Linux.  
+    uClibc and/or run on Linux.  uClibc is licensed under the LGPL, just
+    like GNU libc.  If you are using uClibc as a shared library, then your
+    closed source application is 100% legal.  Please consider sharing some
+    of the money you make with us!  :-)
 
-
-
-<p>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left>
-    <B>
-    I want to create a closed source commercial application using uClibc.  
-    Is that legal?
-    </B>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-
-    Yes.  uClibc is licensed under the LGPL, just like GNU libc.  If you are
-    using uClibc as a shared library, then your closed source application is
-    100% legal.  Please consider sharing some of the money you make.  :-)
+    <p>
     
-    If you are staticly linking your closed source commercial application with
+    If you are statically linking your closed source application with
     uClibc, then you must take additional steps to comply with the uClibc
-    license.  You can sell your application as usual, but you must also make
-    your closed source application available to your customers as an object
-    file which can then be linked with updated versions of uClibc.  This will
-    (in theory) allow your customers to later link with updated versions of
-    uClibc.  You do not need to make the application object file available to
-    everyone, just to those you gave the fully linked application.
-
+    license.  You may sell your statically linked application as usual, but
+    you must also make your application available to your customers as an
+    object file which can later be re-linked against updated versions of
+    uClibc.  This will (in theory) allow your customers to apply uClibc bug
+    fixes to your application.  You do not need to make the application
+    object file available to everyone, just to those you gave the fully
+    linked application.
 
 
 <p>
@@ -221,8 +223,8 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 
     The easiest way is to use the compiler wrapper built by uClibc.  Instead of
     using your usual compiler or cross compiler, you can use i386-uclibc-gcc,
-    (or whatever is appropriate for your architecture) and it will automagically 
-    make your program link against uClibc.
+    (or whatever is appropriate for your target architecture) and your
+    applications will auto-magically link against uClibc.
 
 
 
@@ -244,20 +246,21 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 <p>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left>
     <B>
-    When I run 'ldd' to get a list of the library dependancies for a uClibc
-    binary, ldd segfaults!  Or it runs my application?  Anyways, it doesn't 
+    When I run 'ldd' to get a list of the library dependencies for a uClibc
+    binary, ldd segfaults!  Or it runs my application!  Anyways, it doesn't 
     work!  What should I do?
     </B>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
     Use the ldd that is built by uClibc, not your system's one.  When your
-    system's ldd looks for the library dependancies, it actually tries to
-    _execute_ that program.  This works fine -- usually.  I doesn't work at all
-    when you are cross compiling (thats why ldd segfaults).  The ldd program
-    created by uClibc is cross platform and doesn't actually try to run the
-    target program like your system one does, so it should do the right thing,
-    and won't segfault, even when you are cross compiling.
+    system's ldd looks for library dependencies, it actually _runs_ that
+    program.  This works fine -- usually.  I doesn't work at all when you
+    have been cross compiling (which is why ldd segfaults).  The ldd
+    program created by uClibc is cross platform and doesn't even try to run
+    the target program (like your system one does).  So use the uClibc one
+    and it will do the right thing, and it won't segfault even when you are
+    cross compiling.
 
 
 <p>
@@ -268,7 +271,7 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
-    This history and origin of uClibc is long and twisty.
+    The history and origin of uClibc is long and twisty.
     In the beginning, there was <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU libc</a>.  Then, libc4
     (which later became linux libc 5) forked from GNU libc version 1.07.4, with
     additions from 4.4BSD, in order to support Linux.  Later, the <a
@@ -281,17 +284,17 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
     <p>
 
     I had for some time been despairing over the state of C libraries in Linux.
-    GNU libc, the standard, is very poorly suited to embedded systems (and it just
-    gets bigger with every release).  I spent quite a bit of time looking over the
-    other Open Source C libraries that I knew of (listed below), and none of them really
+    GNU libc, the standard, is very poorly suited to embedded systems and
+    has been getting bigger with every release.  I spent quite a bit of time looking over the
+    available Open Source C libraries that I knew of (listed below), and none of them really
     impressed me.  I felt there was a real vacancy in the embedded Linux ecology.
     The closest library to what I imagined an embedded C library should be was
-    uClibc.  But that had a lot of problems too -- not the least of which was that,
+    uClibc.  But it had a lot of problems too -- not the least of which was that,
     traditionally, uClibc had a complete source tree fork in order to support each
-    and every new platform, resulting in a big mess of twisty versions, all
+    and every new platform.  This resulted in a big mess of twisty versions, all
     different.  I decided to fix it and the result is what you see here.
     My source tree has now become the official uClibc source tree and it now lives
-    on cvs.uclinux.org.
+    on cvs.uclinux.org and www.uclibc.org.
 
     <p>
 
@@ -299,7 +302,7 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
     href="http://www.uclinux.org/developers/index.html">D. Jeff Dionne</a>), I
     ported it to run on x86.  I then grafted in the header files from glibc 2.1.3
     and cleaned up the resulting breakage.  This (plus some additional work) has
-    made it almost completely independant of kernel headers, a large departure from
+    made it almost completely independent of kernel headers, a large departure from
     its traditional tightly-coupled-to-the-kernel origins.  I have written and/or
     rewritten a number of things that were missing or broken, and sometimes grafted
     in bits of code from the current glibc and libc5.  I have also built a proper
@@ -315,17 +318,18 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 <p>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=left>
     <B>
-    I need you to add &lt;favorite feature&gt; now!   How come you don't answer all my
-    questions on the mailing list withing 5 minutes?  I demand that you help me <em>Right Now</em>!
+    I demand that you to add &lt;favorite feature&gt; right now!   How come 
+    you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly?  I demand 
+    that you help me with all of my problems <em>Right Now</em>!
     </B>
 </TD></TR>
 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
 
-    You have not paid us a single cent and yet you still have the product of
-    over year and a half of work from Erik and Manuel and lots of other people.  
-    How dare you treat us that way!  We work on uClibc because we find it
-    interesting.  If you go off flaming us, we will ignore you.
-    
+    You have not paid us a single cent and yet you still have the
+    product of nearly two years of work from Erik and Manuel and
+    many other people.  We are not your slaves!  We work on uClibc
+    because we find it interesting.  If you go off flaming us, we will
+    ignore you.
 
 
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@@ -342,8 +346,8 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
 	href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a> of <a
 	href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting</a> to bid
     on your project.  If Erik is too busy to personally add your feature, there
-    are several other active uClibc contributors who may be able to help you out.
-    Erik can contact them and ask them about their availability.
+    are several other active uClibc contributors who will almost certainly be able 
+    to help you out.  Erik can contact them and ask them about their availability.
     
     
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@@ -369,8 +373,8 @@ to the uClibc home page.</a>
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