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+<title>Stallman's Speech at WSIS, 16 July 2003
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Speech at WSIS, 16 July 2003</h2>
+
+<p>
+by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The benefit of computers is that it's easier to copy and manipulate
+information. Corporations are using two kinds of imposed monopolies
+to deny you this benefit.</p>
+
+<p>
+Software patents restrict how you use your computer. They restrict
+developing software. A big program combines dozens or hundreds of
+ideas. When each idea can be patented, only IBMs and Microsofts can
+safely write software. Bye bye to any independent local software
+industry. Software patents must be rejected.</p>
+
+<p>
+Copyrights restrict using and sharing information&mdash;exactly what
+your computer is for. It was fine to trade away the freedom to copy
+when only publishers could copy; the public lost nothing. Today
+peer-to-peer sharing must be legal. WSIS should not teach people that
+sharing is wrong.</p>
+
+<p>
+Copyrights block access to scientific publications. Every university
+should be free to make an open-access mirror for any journal, so no one
+is excluded from access.</p>
+
+<p>
+Then there's the economic effect. When companies have power over you,
+they bleed you dry. Copyrights and software patents increase the
+digital divide and concentrate wealth. We have too much scarcity in
+the world; let's not create more. TRIPS is bad enough, but software
+patents and the WIPO copyright treaty go beyond TRIPS, and WSIS should
+reject them.</p>
+
+<p>
+Computer users need software that respects their freedom. We call it
+&ldquo;free (libre) software&rdquo;, meaning freedom, not gratis. You
+have the freedom to run it, study it, change it, and redistribute
+it.</p>
+
+<p>
+Free software means you control your computing. With non-free
+software, the software owners control it. They put in spy features,
+back doors, restrictions.</p>
+
+<p>
+With free software, you can make the program do what you want.
+&ldquo;You&rdquo; could mean an individual programmer, a company, or a
+group of users with similar needs. Non-programmers can convince or
+pay programmers to make changes for you. With free software, you're
+free to make it handle your language. Free to adapt it for your
+disability.</p>
+
+<p>
+Software owners deliberately make programs incompatible. With free
+software, users can make it follow standards.</p>
+
+<p>
+You need free software to train master programmers. Non-free software
+is a secret, so nobody can learn from it. Free software gives
+talented young people in Africa the chance to learn how to work on
+real software. School should also teach students the spirit of
+cooperation. All schools should use free software.</p>
+
+<p>
+Free software is necessary for sustainable development. If everyone
+in your country uses a program that's secret and controlled by a
+single company, that's not development, that's electronic
+colonization.</p>
+
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+<p>Copyright &copy; 2003 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:49 $
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