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+<title>Saying No to unjust computing even once is help
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Saying No to unjust computing even once is&nbsp;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&mdash;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, &ldquo;I'd rather
+use Zoom less&mdash;please count me out today,&rdquo; you help the free
+software movement. &ldquo;I'd like to do this with you, but with Zoom on
+the other side of the scale, I've decided to decline.&rdquo; If you
+accepted the nonfree software before, you could say this: &ldquo;I'd
+like to participate, but the software we are using is not good for us.
+I've decided I should cut down.&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;portal&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;</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, &ldquo;If we use XYZ
+for this
+conversation, or some other libre software, I could
+participate.&rdquo;</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>
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+<p>Copyright &copy; 2020 Richard Stallman</p>
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