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Saying No to unjust computing even once is help

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by Richard Stallman
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A misunderstanding is circulating that the GNU +Project demands you run 100% free +software, all the time. Anything less (90%?), and we will tell +you to get lost—they say. Nothing could be further from the +truth.

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Our ultimate goal is digital +freedom for all, a world without nonfree software. Some of us, who +have made campaigning for digital freedom our goal, reject all nonfree +programs. However, as a practical matter, even a little step towards +that goal is good. A walk of a thousand miles consists of lots of +steps. Each time you don't install some nonfree program, or decide not +to run it that day, that is a step towards your own freedom. Each time +you decline to run a nonfree program with others, you show them a wise +example of long-term thinking. That is a step towards freedom for the +world.

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If you're caught in a web of nonfree programs, you're surely looking +for a chance to pull a few strands off of your body. Each one +pulled off is an advance.

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Each time you tell the people in some activity, “I'd rather +use Zoom less—please count me out today,” you help the free +software movement. “I'd like to do this with you, but with Zoom on +the other side of the scale, I've decided to decline.” If you +accepted the nonfree software before, you could say this: “I'd +like to participate, but the software we are using is not good for us. +I've decided I should cut down.” Once in a while, you may convince +them to use free software instead. At least they will learn that some +people care about freedom enough to decline participation for +freedom's sake.

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If you say no, on one occasion, to conversing with someone or some +group via Skype, you have helped. If you say no, on one occasion, +to conversing via WhatsApp, Facebook, or Slack, you have helped. If +you say no, on one occasion, to editing something via Google Docs, +you have helped. If you say no to registering for one meeting in +eventbrite.com or meetup.com, you have helped. If you tell one +organization you won't use its “portal” or app, so you will +deal with it by phone, that helps. Of course, you help more if you stick +to your refusal (with kind firmness, of course) and don't let the +others change your mind.

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Steps add up. If on another day you decline the nonfree program +again, you will have helped again. If you say no a few times a +week, that adds up over time. When people see you say no, even +once, you may inspire them to follow your example.

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To give help consistently, you can make this refusal a firm +practice, but refusing occasionally is still help. You will help more +if you reject several of the nonfree programs that communities have +blindly swallowed. Would you ever want to reject them all? There is +no need to decide that now.

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So tell someone, “Thanks for inviting me, but +Zoom/Skype/WhatsApp/whichever is a freedom-denying program, and +almost surely snoops on its users; please count me out. I want a +different kind of world, and by declining to use it today I am +taking a step towards that world.”

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The FSF recommends +freedom-respecting methods for the sorts of communication that +unjust systems do. If +one of them would be usable, you could add, “If we use XYZ +for this +conversation, or some other libre software, I could +participate.”

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You can take one step. And once you've done it, sooner or later you +can do it again. Eventually you may find you have changed your +practices; if you get used to saying no to some nonfree program, you +could do it most of the time, maybe even every time. Not only will +you have gained an increment of freedom; you will have helped your +whole community by spreading awareness of the issue.

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