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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/use-free-software.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/use-free-software.html index 9665005..45b481d 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/use-free-software.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/use-free-software.html @@ -1,19 +1,28 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays upholding fsmovement" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>The Free Software Community After 20 Years - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/use-free-software.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> -<h2>The Free Software Community After 20 Years: <br /> -With great but incomplete success, what now?</h2> - -<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard -Stallman</strong></a></p> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> +<h2 style="margin-bottom: .2em"> +The Free Software Community After 20 Years: </h2> +<h3 style="margin: 0 0 1.2em"> +With great but incomplete success, what now?</h3> + +<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard +Stallman</a></address> <p> It was 5 Jan 1984, twenty years ago today, that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, -<a href="/gnu/the-gnu-project.html">GNU</a>. While we have never +<a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">GNU</a>. While we have never released a complete GNU system suitable for production use, a variant of the GNU system is now used by tens of millions of people who mostly are not aware it is such. Free software does not mean @@ -29,7 +38,7 @@ software imposes on its users, and I was determined to escape and give others a way to escape.</p> <p> -Non-free software carries with it an antisocial system that prohibits +Nonfree software carries with it an antisocial system that prohibits cooperation and community. You are typically unable to see the source code; you cannot tell what nasty tricks, or what foolish bugs, it might contain. If you don't like it, you are helpless to change it. @@ -40,7 +49,7 @@ prohibit sharing software is to cut the bonds of society.</p> Today we have a large community of users who run GNU, Linux and other free software. Thousands of people would like to extend this, and have adopted the goal of convincing more computer users to “use -free software”. But what does it mean to “use free +free software.” But what does it mean to “use free software”? Does that mean escaping from proprietary software, or merely installing free programs alongside it? Are we aiming to lead people to freedom, or just introduce them to our code? In other @@ -79,7 +88,7 @@ But if our goal is freedom, that changes everything. Users cannot be free while using a nonfree program. To free the citizens of cyberspace, we have to replace those nonfree programs, not accept them. They are not contributions to our community, they are -temptations to settle for continuing non-freedom.</p> +temptations to settle for continuing nonfreedom.</p> <p> There are two common motivations to develop a free program. One is @@ -107,12 +116,15 @@ people to recognize the moral unacceptability of nonfree software. People who value freedom are, in the long term, its best and essential defense.</p> +<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary"> <hr /> -<p><strong>Originally published on Newsforge.</strong></p> +<p>Originally published on <cite>NewsForge</cite>.</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 @@ -130,13 +142,13 @@ to <a 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 +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> @@ -157,7 +169,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2004, 2017, 2018 Richard Stallman</p> +<p>Copyright © 2004, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -167,7 +179,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:39 $ +$Date: 2021/09/10 10:58:36 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> |