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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-power.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-power.html index a0dcc32..64967d1 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-power.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/freedom-or-power.html @@ -1,21 +1,28 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays licensing copyleft" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Freedom Or Power? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!-- +.epigraph { margin: 2em 0 2em 15%; color: #444; } +--></style> <meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation, Linux, general, public, license, gpl, general public license, freedom, software, power, rights" /> <meta http-equiv="Description" content="In this essay, Freedom or Power?, Bradley M. Kuhn and Richard M. Stallman discuss the reasons that the free software movement doesn't advocate the so-called freedom to choose any license you want for software you write." /> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/freedom-or-power.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Freedom or Power?</h2> -<p> -by <strong>Bradley M. Kuhn</strong> and <strong>Richard -M. Stallman</strong></p> +<address class="byline">by Bradley M. Kuhn and Richard M. Stallman</address> -<blockquote> +<blockquote class="epigraph"> <p>The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the -love of ourselves.<br /> --- William Hazlitt</p> +love of ourselves. —<i>William Hazlitt</i></p> </blockquote> <p> @@ -75,14 +82,15 @@ freedom.</p> Discussions of rights and rules for software have often concentrated on the interests of programmers alone. Few people in the world program regularly, and fewer still are owners of proprietary software -businesses. But the entire developed world now needs and uses -software, so software developers now control the way it lives, -does business, communicates, and is entertained. The ethical and +businesses. But most of humanity now uses computers (specifically, smartphones) and thus uses +software, so software developers now control the way they live, +do business, communicate, and are entertained. The ethical and political issues are not addressed by the slogan of “freedom of choice (for developers only).”</p> <p> -If “code is law,” <a href="#f1">(1)</a> then the real question we face is: who should control the +If “code is law,” <a href="#f1">(1)</a> then the real +question we face is: who should control the code you use—you, or an elite few? We believe you are entitled to control the software you use, and giving you that control is the goal of free software.</p> @@ -94,7 +102,7 @@ us in the position of power over users of our code, whether we like it or not. The ethical response to this situation is to proclaim freedom for each user, just as the Bill of Rights was supposed to exercise government power by guaranteeing each citizen's freedoms. That is what the <a -href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">GNU General Public License</a> is for: +href="/licenses/copyleft.html">GNU General Public License</a> is for: it puts you in control of your usage of the software while <a href="/philosophy/why-copyleft.html">protecting you from others</a> who would like to take control of your decisions.</p> @@ -105,23 +113,25 @@ they too deserve freedom, they will see the importance of the freedoms we stand for, just as more and more users have come to appreciate the practical value of the free software we have developed.</p> -<h4>Footnotes</h4> - -<a id="f1"></a> William J. Mitchell, -<em>City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn </em> (Cambridge, +<h3 class="footnote">Footnote</h3> +<ol> +<li id="f1">William J. Mitchell, +<cite>City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn</cite> (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995), p. 111, as quoted by Lawrence Lessig in -<em>Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0</em> (New York, NY: -Basic Books, 2006), p. 5. +<cite>Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0</cite> (New York, NY: +Basic Books, 2006), p. 5.</li> +</ol> -<hr /> -<blockquote id="fsfs"><p>This essay is published -in <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free +<hr class="no-display" /> +<div class="edu-note c"><p id="fsfs">This essay is published in +<a href="https://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><cite>Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard -M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></blockquote> +M. Stallman</cite></a>.</p></div> +</div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a @@ -139,16 +149,33 @@ href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for -information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p> +information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> -<p>Copyright © 2001, 2009, 2020 Bradley M. 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