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To Whom It May Concern:

If you are the developer that has been modifying _really recently_ the source 
files, mainly the license text (example: 
https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/69279/vbox), so as to introduce two (2) 
spaces (" ") after a period (".") at the end of a sentence (what was wrong with 
one?):

* You need to get rid of your typewriter and get something more modern, like a 
computer (the machine that goes "Ping!").

* Please let me be one of the first ones to welcome you to the 21st century!!! 
;)


>From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing):
> With the introduction of the typewriter in the late 19th century, typists 
> used two spaces between sentences to mimic the style used by traditional 
> typesetters.[5] While wide sentence spacing was phased out in the printing 
> industry in the mid-20th century, the practice continued on typewriters[6] 
> and later on computers.[7] ... From around 1950, single sentence spacing 
> became standard in books, magazines and newspapers,[10] and the majority of 
> style guides that use a Latin-derived alphabet as a language base now 
> prescribe or recommend the use of a single space after the concluding 
> punctuation of a sentence.[11]


:D

Socratis

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