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<title>Why Programs Should be Shared
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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<h2>Why Programs Should be Shared</h2>
-<p><strong>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></strong></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
- <blockquote>
- <p>Richard Stallman wrote this text, which was found in a file dated May
+<div class="introduction">
+ <p>Editor's note: This text was found in a file dated May
1983, though it is not clear whether it was written then or earlier.
- In May 1983 he was privately considering plans to develop a
+ In May 1983 Richard Stallman was privately considering plans to develop a
free operating system, but he may not yet have decided to make it a
Unix-like system rather than something like the MIT Lisp Machine.</p>
<p>He had not yet conceptually distinguished the two meanings of
- &ldquo;free;&rdquo; this message is formulated in terms of gratis
+ &ldquo;free&rdquo;; this message is formulated in terms of gratis
copies, but take for granted that this means users also have freedom.</p>
- </blockquote>
+</div>
+<hr class="no-display" />
<p>Five years ago one could take for granted that any useful program
written at SAIL, MIT, CMU, etc. would be shared. Since then, these
@@ -59,10 +68,11 @@ the university wouldn't dare to do this. And if you start
sharing, other people might start sharing with you.</p>
<p>So let's start sharing again.</p>
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<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
@@ -80,13 +90,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
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Please see the <a
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-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -107,7 +117,7 @@ of this article.</p>
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 1983, 2015, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -117,10 +127,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:38 $
+$Date: 2021/11/28 07:45:37 $
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