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@@ -2905,7 +2905,7 @@ sending or receiving messages.  Such technologies present no obstacles to
 software freedom and the goals of copyleft.
 
 The public GPLv3 drafting process sought to balance these positions of
-copyleft advocates with various desperate views of the larger
+copyleft advocates with various disparate views of the larger
 Free-Software-using community.  Ultimately, FSF compromised to the GPLv3\S3
 and GPLv3\S6 provisions that, taken together, are a minimalist set of terms
 sufficient to protect the software freedom against the threat of invasive
