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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/saying-no-even-once.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/saying-no-even-once.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff0e0be --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/saying-no-even-once.html @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.92 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<title>Saying No to unjust computing even once is help +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> + <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/saying-no-even-once.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> + +<h2>Saying No to unjust computing even once is help</h2> + +<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address> +<hr class="thin" /> + +<p class="italic">A misunderstanding is circulating that the GNU +Project demands you run 100% <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free +software</a>, all the time. Anything less (90%?), and we will tell +you to get lost—they say. Nothing could be further from the +truth.</p> + +<p>Our ultimate goal is <a +href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">digital +freedom for all</a>, a world without nonfree software. Some of us, who +have made campaigning for digital freedom our goal, reject all nonfree +programs. However, as a practical matter, even a little step towards +that goal is good. A walk of a thousand miles consists of lots of +steps. Each time you don't install some nonfree program, or decide not +to run it that day, that is a step towards your own freedom. Each time +you decline to run a nonfree program with others, you show them a wise +example of long-term thinking. That is a step towards freedom for the +world.</p> + +<p>If you're caught in a web of nonfree programs, you're surely looking +for a chance to pull a few strands off of your body. Each one +pulled off is an advance.</p> + +<p>Each time you tell the people in some activity, “I'd rather +use Zoom less—please count me out today,” you help the free +software movement. “I'd like to do this with you, but with Zoom on +the other side of the scale, I've decided to decline.” If you +accepted the nonfree software before, you could say this: “I'd +like to participate, but the software we are using is not good for us. +I've decided I should cut down.” Once in a while, you may convince +them to use free software instead. At least they will learn that some +people care about freedom enough to decline participation for +freedom's sake.</p> + +<p>If you say no, on one occasion, to conversing with someone or some +group via Skype, you have helped. If you say no, on one occasion, +to conversing via WhatsApp, Facebook, or Slack, you have helped. If +you say no, on one occasion, to editing something via Google Docs, +you have helped. If you say no to registering for one meeting in +eventbrite.com or meetup.com, you have helped. If you tell one +organization you won't use its “portal” or app, so you will +deal with it by phone, that helps. Of course, you help more if you stick +to your refusal (with kind firmness, of course) and don't let the +others change your mind.</p> + +<p>Steps add up. If on another day you decline the nonfree program +again, you will have helped again. If you say no a few times a +week, that adds up over time. When people see you say no, even +once, you may inspire them to follow your example.</p> + +<p>To give help consistently, you can make this refusal a firm +practice, but refusing occasionally is still help. You will help more +if you reject several of the nonfree programs that communities have +blindly swallowed. Would you ever want to reject them all? There is +no need to decide that now.</p> + +<p>So tell someone, “Thanks for inviting me, but +Zoom/Skype/WhatsApp/whichever is a freedom-denying program, and +almost surely snoops on its users; please count me out. I want a +different kind of world, and by declining to use it today I am +taking a step towards that world.”</p> + +<p>The FSF recommends <a +href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch"> +freedom-respecting methods</a> for the sorts of communication that +unjust systems do. If +one of them would be usable, you could add, “If we use XYZ +for this +conversation, or some other libre software, I could +participate.”</p> + +<p>You can take one step. And once you've done it, sooner or later you +can do it again. Eventually you may find you have changed your +practices; if you get used to saying no to some nonfree program, you +could do it most of the time, maybe even every time. Not only will +you have gained an increment of freedom; you will have helped your +whole community by spreading awareness of the issue.</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent +to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> + +<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, + replace it with the translation of these two: + + We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality + translations. 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