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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/install-fest-devil.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/install-fest-devil.html index 730ea38..366c2a6 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/install-fest-devil.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/install-fest-devil.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.87 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.94 --> <title>Install Fests - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/install-fest-devil.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ LibrePlanet March 23/24 2019</a></p></blockquote> <p>Install fests invite users to bring their computers so that experts -can install GNU/Linux on them. This is meant to promote the idea of -free software as well as the use of free software. In practice, these -two goals conflict: users that want to reject nonfree software -entirely need to choose their computers carefully to achieve that -goal.</p> +can install GNU/Linux on them. This is meant to promote the +<em>idea</em> of free software as well as the <em>use</em> of free +software. In today's circumstances, where nonfree software dominates, +these two goals conflict: users that want to reject nonfree software +entirely need to choose their computers carefully to achieve that goal.</p> <p>The problem is that most computers can't run with a completely free GNU/Linux distro. They contain peripherals, or coprocessors, that @@ -40,11 +40,12 @@ free software movement's message about freedom and justice</a>.</p> <p>The nonfree software means the user sacrifices freedom for functionality. If users had to wrestle with this choice, they could draw a moral lesson from it, and maybe get a better computer later. -But when the install fest makes the compromise on the user's behalf, -it shelters the user from the moral dimension; the user never sees -that something other than convenience is at stake. In effect, the -install fest makes the deal with the devil, on the user's behalf, -behind a curtain so the user doesn't recognize that it is one.</p> +But when the install fest makes the <a href="/philosophy/compromise.html"> +compromise</a> on the user's behalf, it shelters the user from the +moral dimension; the user never sees that something other than +convenience is at stake. In effect, the install fest makes the deal +with the devil, on the user's behalf, behind a curtain so the user +doesn't recognize that it is one.</p> <p>I propose that the install fest show users exactly what deal they are making. Let them talk with the devil individually, learn the deal's @@ -56,10 +57,11 @@ moral example of rejecting nonfree software.</p> <p>My new idea is that the install fest could allow the devil to hang around, off in a corner of the hall, or the next room. (Actually, a -human being wearing sign saying “The Devil,” and maybe a toy mask or -horns.) The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers in the -user's machine to make more parts of the computer function, explaining -to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree (unjust) program.</p> +human being wearing sign saying “The Devil,” and maybe a +toy mask or horns.) The devil would offer to install nonfree drivers +in the user's machine to make more parts of the computer function, +explaining to the user that the cost of this is using a nonfree +(unjust) program.</p> <p>The install fest would tolerate the devil's presence but not officially sponsor the devil, or publicize the devil's availability. @@ -117,8 +119,9 @@ devil, I think that an explicit devil would be less bad. It would convert the install-fest dilemma from a debilitating contradiction into a teaching experience. Users would be able to get, if they insist, the nonfree drivers to make their peripherals run, then use -GNU/Linux knowing that there is a further step toward freedom that -they should take.</p> +GNU/Linux knowing that there is <a +href="/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html">a further step toward +freedom</a> that they should take.</p> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> @@ -167,7 +170,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> +<p>Copyright © 2019, 2020 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -177,7 +180,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2019/03/21 17:00:59 $ +$Date: 2020/10/24 06:33:52 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> |