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 # WELCOME TO HARBOUR
 
-Harbour is the Free Open Source Software implementation
-of a multi-platform, multi-threading, object-oriented, scriptable
-programming language, backward compatible with Clipper/xBase.
-Harbour consists of a compiler and runtime libraries with multiple
-UI and database backends, its own make system and a large
-collection of libraries and interfaces to many popular APIs.
+Harbour is the free software implementation of a multi-platform,
+multi-threading, object-oriented, scriptable programming language,
+backward compatible with Clipper/xBase. Harbour consists of
+a compiler and runtime libraries with multiple UI and database
+backends, its own make system and a large collection of libraries
+and interfaces to many popular APIs.
 
 <http://harbour-project.org/>