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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html index ae20140..b2d6a29 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html @@ -1,20 +1,31 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays aboutfs principles" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Your Freedom Needs Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/your-freedom-needs-free-software.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Your Freedom Needs Free Software</h2> +<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address> + +<div class="introduction"> <p>Many of us know that governments can threaten the human rights of software users through censorship and surveillance of the Internet. Many do not realize that the software they run on their home or work computers can be an even worse threat. Thinking of software as -‘just a tool’, they suppose that it obeys them, when in +“just a tool,” they suppose that it obeys them, when in fact it often obeys others instead.</p> +</div> <p>The software running in most computers is <a -href="/philosophy/categories.html#ProprietarySoftware">non-free, +href="/philosophy/categories.html#ProprietarySoftware">nonfree, proprietary software</a>: controlled by software companies, not by its users. Users can't check what these programs do, nor prevent them from doing what they don't want. Most people accept @@ -26,42 +37,44 @@ misdeeds. If a computer talks to a network, and you don't control the software in it, it can easily spy on you. Microsoft Windows spies on users; for instance, it reports what words a user searches for in her own files, and what other programs are installed. RealPlayer spies -too; it reports what the user plays. Cell phones are full of non-free +too; it reports what the user plays. Cell phones are full of nonfree software, which spies. Cell phones send out localizing signals even -when ‘off’, many can send out your precise GPS location +when “off,” many can send out your precise GPS location whether you wish or not, and some models can be switched on remotely as listening devices. Users can't fix these malicious features because they don't have control.</p> -<p>Some proprietary software is designed to restrict and attack its -users. <a href="http://badvista.org/">Windows Vista</a> is a big -advance in this field; the reason it requires replacement of old -hardware is that the new models are designed to support unbreakable -restrictions. Microsoft thus requires users to pay for shiny new -shackles. It is also designed to permit forced updating by corporate -authority. Hence the <a href="http://badvista.org/">BadVista.org</a> -campaign, which urges Windows users not to ‘upgrade’ to -Vista. (For the equally malicious Windows 7 and Windows 8, we now have -<a href="http://windows7sins.org/">Windows7Sins.org</a> and -<a href="http://upgradefromwindows8.org/">UpgradeFromWindows8.org</a>.) -Mac OS also contains features designed to restrict its users.</p> +<p>Some proprietary software is <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html"> +designed to restrict and attack its users</a>. +<a href="https://badvista.fsf.org/">Windows Vista</a> was a big +advance in this field; the reason it required replacement of old +hardware is that the new models were designed to support unbreakable +restrictions. Microsoft thus required users to pay for shiny new +shackles. Vista was also designed to permit forced updating by corporate +authority. Hence the <a href="https://badvista.fsf.org/">Bad Vista</a> +campaign, which urged Windows users not to “upgrade” to +Vista. For later Windows versions, which are <a +href="/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html">even more malicious</a>, we +now have <a href="https://www.fsf.org/windows">Upgrade from Windows</a>. +Mac OS also contains features designed to <a +href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html">restrict its users</a>.</p> <p>Microsoft has installed back doors for the US government's use in the past (<a -href="http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html">reported on +href="https://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html">reported on heise.de</a>). We cannot check whether they have successors today. Other proprietary programs may or may not have back doors, but since we cannot check them, we cannot trust them.</p> <p>The only way to assure that your software is working for you is to -insist on Free/Libre software. This means users get the source code, +insist on free/libre software. This means users get the source code, are free to study and change it, and are free to redistribute it with or without changes. The <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU/Linux system</a>, developed <a href="/gnu/gnu.html">specifically for users' freedom</a>, includes office applications, multimedia, games, and everything you really need to run a computer. -See <a href="http://www.gnewsense.org/">gNewSense.org</a> for -a <a href="/distros/distros.html">totally Free/Libre version of GNU/Linux</a>.</p> +See our list of <a href="/distros/distros.html">totally free/libre +versions of GNU/Linux</a>.</p> <p>A special problem occurs when activists for social change use proprietary software, because its developers, who control it, may be @@ -81,11 +94,12 @@ getting his data back.</p> <p>The US is not the only state that doesn't respect human rights, so keep your data on your own computer, and your backups under your own -custody—and run your computer with Free/Libre software.</p> +custody—and run your computer with free/libre software.</p> +</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 @@ -103,13 +117,13 @@ 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> @@ -130,7 +144,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2007, 2017 Richard Stallman</p> +<p>Copyright © 2007, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -140,10 +154,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2017/08/27 14:56:06 $ +$Date: 2021/09/22 07:26:29 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |