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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/wsis-2003.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/wsis-2003.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25c19a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/wsis-2003.html @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<title>Stallman's Speech at WSIS, 16 July 2003 +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/wsis-2003.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<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—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 +“free (libre) software”, 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. +“You” 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> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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