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-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-<title>Stallman's Speech at National Institute of Technology
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+<title>Speech on Free Software (2004)
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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-<h2>National Institute of Technology - Trichy - India - 17 February 2004</h2>
-
-<p>
-by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a>
-</p>
-
- <p><em>Transcript of the speech on &ldquo;Free Software&rdquo; by
-Dr. Richard Stallman on Feb 17, 2004 at the National Institute of
-Technology, Trichy, TN, India.</em>
-</p>
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+<div class="article reduced-width">
+<h2>Speech on Free Software (2004)</h2>
+
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
+
+<div class="infobox">
+ <p>This speech was given on Feb 17, 2004 at the National Institute of
+Technology, Trichy, TN, India.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="thin" />
<p><b>[MOC]</b> We will be starting off with the video conferencing
session in a short while, audience please note, the questions should
@@ -59,7 +66,7 @@ or small.
physics. During his college years he also worked as a staff hacker, at
the <abbr title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr> AI
lab, learning operating system development on the fly. In 1984, he
-resigned from <abbr>MIT</abbr> to start the GNU project. He has
+resigned from MIT to start the GNU project. He has
received numerous prizes and awards for his work, which need no
mention.
</p>
@@ -207,7 +214,7 @@ minute. But sometimes they get even worse. Sometimes programs have
features designed to stop you from doing things. Software developers
like to talk about how their programs could do things for you. But
sometimes they design programs that will refuse to do things for
-you. This is often called DRM &mdash; Digital Restrictions
+you. This is often called DRM&mdash;Digital Restrictions
Management. Where programs are designed to refuse to access files for
you, to refuse to let you save files, or copy files or convert files.
</p>
@@ -608,7 +615,7 @@ what is going on inside that computer. They are going to want to learn
how does this program work. If they are using nonfree software, the
teacher has to tell them, &ldquo;Sorry, you can't learn that, I can't
learn that. It's a secret. Nobody is allowed to learn that.&rdquo;
-Non-free software prohibits education. But with free software, the
+Nonfree software prohibits education. But with free software, the
teacher can say, &ldquo;Go ahead. Here's the source code for this
program. Read it. You can learn. And then, now that you have read the
source code, try making a change, try making a small change in this
@@ -625,13 +632,13 @@ judgment. The way you learn is by reading lots of source and by
changing lots of programs. That way you learn what makes a program
easy to understand and easy to change. Every time you try to read a
program and it is hard to figure out a certain part, you learn this is
-not the way to write clear code. Non-free software doesn't help you do
-this. Non-free software just keeps you in the dark. But if the schools
+not the way to write clear code. Nonfree software doesn't help you do
+this. Nonfree software just keeps you in the dark. But if the schools
of India switched to free software, then they can offer the students
the opportunity to learn to be good programmers. To learn the same way
I learnt.
<span class="gnun-split"></span>In the 1970s, I had a special opportunity. I worked at the
-AI lab at <abbr>MIT</abbr>. And there, we had our own time sharing
+AI lab at MIT. And there, we had our own time sharing
system, which was free software. We would share with anybody. In fact,
we were delighted anytime when somebody was interested in any part of
it. We were delighted anytime somebody wanted to join us in using it
@@ -643,7 +650,7 @@ earth, to have this opportunity, which was very unusual, very
rare. Today any PC running the GNU plus Linux operating system, will
offer you this opportunity. Every school in India that has a computer
can offer its students the same opportunity, that I could only get at
-<abbr>MIT</abbr>.
+MIT.
</p>
<p>So schools should use free software for the sake of education, but
@@ -727,7 +734,7 @@ GNU is the name of an animal that was in Africa. We use the animal as
our symbol. So if you see a smiling animal with some horns that is
associated with our software, that's a gnu.
<span class="gnun-split"></span>So 20 years and 1 month
-ago, in January 1984, I quit my job at <abbr>MIT</abbr> and began
+ago, in January 1984, I quit my job at MIT and began
developing the GNU system. I didn't do it all myself, of course, I was
also trying to recruit other people to help and gradually over the
years more and more people joined in. During the 1980s, well we had
@@ -780,7 +787,7 @@ or a server, and sometimes they mean just this kernel, which is enough
for a embedded machine and that's all. So, if you want to avoid
confusing people, you need to distinguish them, use different names
for different things. When you are talking about the kernel, please
-call it &lsquo;Linux&rsquo;. That was written by a person, who chose
+call it &ldquo;Linux.&rdquo; That was written by a person, who chose
the name Linux. And we ought to use the name he chose. When you are
talking of the operating system, that's mostly GNU. And when I started
developing it, I chose the name GNU. So please call this combination
@@ -954,7 +961,7 @@ to avoid saying that, to reject our ethical principles. The open
source movement doesn't say you should insist on open source
software. They say that it may be convenient or advantageous. They
sight practical values only. They say that they have a superior
-design&hellip; sorry a superior development model &mdash; superior in
+design&hellip; sorry a superior development model&mdash;superior in
its shallow technical sense, that it usually produces technically
better software.
<span class="gnun-split"></span>But that's the most they will say. They won't say
@@ -1032,7 +1039,7 @@ something; you might want to make money out of an activity. And this
is not wrong, not in itself. But if the activity itself is wrong then
you can't justify it by saying I'm going to get money. You know, the
[FIXME 81:00] get money; but that's no excuse for robing
-people. Non-free software is ethically poison. It's a scheme to keep
+people. Nonfree software is ethically poison. It's a scheme to keep
people divided and helpless. It's a form of colonization. And that's
wrong. So when a person says to me &ldquo;I'm going to make my program
proprietary so that I can get money, so that I can work full time
@@ -1083,7 +1090,7 @@ sacrifice. We can wait a few years.
</p>
<p><b>[MOC]</b> His next question is &ldquo;All intellectual work like
-books are proprietary&rdquo;. Is it not justified in case of software?
+books are proprietary.&rdquo; Is it not justified in case of software?
</p>
<p><b>[RMS]</b> Well, he is mistaken. There are plenty of free books
@@ -1104,13 +1111,13 @@ elsewhere to develop free educational materials to make available to
schools. A complete curriculum of free educational materials. Because
educational materials should be free. And so I suggest that you look
at the site <a href="https://www.gnowledge.org">gnowledge.org</a>. That's
-like knowledge but spells with a &lsquo;g&rsquo; instead of a
-&lsquo;k&rsquo;. And you will see one of these initiatives being
+like knowledge but spells with a <i>g</i> instead of a
+<i>k</i>. And you will see one of these initiatives being
carried out by Prof. Nagarjuna in Mumbai.
</p>
-<p>Also, I should mention the free encyclopedia &mdash;
-Wikipedia. It's the largest encyclopedia in history. I believe, it now
+<p>Also, I should mention the free encyclopedia&mdash;Wikipedia.
+It's the largest encyclopedia in history. I believe, it now
has more than a hundred and sixty thousand entries. Which is far more
than any other encyclopedia has ever had. Like around twice. And this
has been done in just a few years; by the public.
@@ -1222,7 +1229,7 @@ organizers in Colombia. So join the boycott. Don't buy Coke.
are many ways a business can conduct itself unethically. And
businesses that conduct itself unethically don't have a right to
continue. They're not legitimate and they shouldn't be treated as
-legitimate. Non-free software development is an example because what
+legitimate. Nonfree software development is an example because what
ever the program itself does, the license subjugate the users. And
that's wrong.
</p>
@@ -1458,14 +1465,16 @@ of our college. We find ourself&hellip;</p>
<p>[applause]</p>
-<blockquote>
+<div class="infobox">
+<hr />
<p>Contributors (in alphabetical order): Krishnan, Saravana
Manickam, Vijay Kumar, Vimal Joseph.</p>
-</blockquote>
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+$Date: 2021/09/20 15:06:48 $
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