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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/contradictory-support.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/contradictory-support.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..675f011 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/contradictory-support.html @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 --> +<title>Beware of Contradictory “Support” +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> + <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/contradictory-support.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> + +<h2>Beware of Contradictory “Support”</h2> + +<p>by <strong>Richard Stallman</strong></p> + +<p>There are organizations that proclaim support for free software or +the GNU Project, and teach classes in use of nonfree software.</p> + +<p>It's possible that they do some <em>other</em> things that really +support free software, but those classes certainly don't. On the +contrary, they work directly against the free software movement by +promoting the use of the nonfree software. That increases the +magnitude of the practical problem it is our mission to correct.</p> + +<p>Even worse, that grants nonfree software legitimacy. The basic +point of the free software movement is that nonfree software is <a +href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">unjust</a> +and should not exist. That's why we need a movement to <em>replace +and eliminate</em> it. Teaching how to use it asserts that it isn't +a problem; that opposes the free software movement at the deepest +level.</p> + +<p>Of course, people have the right to state that view, but they +shouldn't pretend that it constitutes support for our cause.</p> + +<p>Even more outrageously, some of those organizations claim that +their courses in using nonfree software are connected with or even +certified by the GNU Project or the Free Software Foundation. +Needless to say, we would never certify such a course, nor recommend +it, nor have anything to do with it, nor even talk about it except +with condemnation.</p> + +<p>Teaching use of nonfree programs works against free software; +teaching it in association with the name GNU or the term “free +software” causes confusion about what we stand for.</p> + +<p>If you encounter such an organization, please explain these points +to the people who work on it: that such courses go directly against +the principles of the free software movement. Explain to them why, if +they want to help the free software cause, they need to teach people +to choose free software, not legitimize nonfree software.</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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