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free software is the first battle in the

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liberation of cyberspace

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who controls your computer

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is it you or is it some

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big company that's really controlling it

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well what is a computer a computer is a

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universal machine it will do any

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computation you wanted to because you

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give it a program that says what the

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computation is that you want so the

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computer only knows how to get out and

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instruction and do it and get add

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another instruction and do it

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the program has the instructions it says

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what to do and so you by writing the

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right program you can make it do

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anything well almost anything

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um so who gives the instructions to your

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computer you might think it's obeying

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your instructions when really it's

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obeying somebody else first and you only

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as much as that company wants it too

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will let it listen to you with software

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there are two possibilities either the

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users control the program or the program

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controls the users it's inevitably one

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or the other

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so in order for the users to control the

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program they need the four essential

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freedoms and that's the definition of

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free software free software respects the

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users freedom and community now we often

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call it libra using the french or

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spanish word pronounce it as you like

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the point is that's what we mean we

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don't mean it's gratis we're not talking

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about price we're concerned with your

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freedom and we sometimes say free /

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libre to show that so freedom zeros the

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freedom to run the program as you wish

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for whatever purpose freedom one is the

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freedom to study the source code of the

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program and change it so it does the

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computing you wanted to do but what is

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the source code well every program

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typically will have to

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forms there's the form that you can read

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and you can understand if you know the

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programming language that's the source

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that's what programmers write and change

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then there's the executable which is a

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bunch of numbers which even a programmer

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can figure out if all you get is the

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executable it's a horrible pain in the

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neck to figure out what it does and even

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harder to change it so to give you the

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real possibility to study and change it

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they've got to give you the source code

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that's a requirement well with those two

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freedoms each user separately can make a

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copy and start changing it and make it

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do what she wants

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that's individual control but what if

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you're not a programmer you look at the

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source code and you don't understand it

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individual control isn't enough

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we also need collective control which

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means any group of users are free to

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work together to adapt the program to

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what they want of course in the group

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some of them are programmers they're the

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ones who actually write the changes but

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they're doing it as part of the group

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for what the group wants course the

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group doesn't have to be everybody so

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others can use it some other way they're

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all free to do that so collective

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control requires two more essential

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freedoms freedom to is the freedom to

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redistribute exact copies to make the

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copies and then give them away or sell

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them when you wish and freedom three is

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similar but it's for your modified

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versions you're free to make copies and

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then give them or sell them when you

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wish

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so we do have these freedoms that it's

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free software the users control the

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program but if any of those freedoms is

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missing then the users don't control the

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program instead the program controls the

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users and the developer controls the

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program so that means this program is an

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instrument of unjust power for its

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developer / the users that means the

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users don't have freedom that's non-free

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proprietary software which we got to get

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rid of

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well when you've got proprietary

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software what happens sometimes

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program snoops on the user sometimes it

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tracks the user sometimes it restricts

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the user and stop users from doing what

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they want to do you can see that the

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blu-ray is your enemy

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um sometimes the software remotely

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deletes books as Amazon did with 1984

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but sometimes the developer compels

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users to install a harmful upgrade by

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threatening to take away other

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functionality if it's not installed as

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Sony did and sometimes they can even

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forcibly change the software at a

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distance as Microsoft can with windows

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through the universal back door

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I'm so sometimes they even sabotage

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users as Microsoft does when it tells

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the NSA about bugs in windows so it can

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use them to attack people's computers

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well what you get is basically with

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proprietary software the owner has power

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over the users and takes advantage of

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this power putting in those various

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malicious functionalities to hurt the

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users of course they don't do this

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because they're Satanist they're doing

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it just for money for greed they have

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various ways that they can profit from

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having this power over users which does

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not make it even the tiniest bit less

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evil but they have no shame about it

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they have conferences where they talk

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about the latest ways they can take

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advantage of users through the power

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they have basically proprietary software

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which in is now from almost all the

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users of proprietary software they're

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using proprietary malware its software

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for suckers

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so how do us how do you stop being the

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victim formerly you have to stop using

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computers but not anymore

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now you can come join us in the free

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world that we've built but in 1983 i can

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announce i would develop a completely

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free software up

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rating system called GNU in 1992 we had

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almost finished but one piece was

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missing the Kernel Linux or vaults in

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that year

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freed his Kernel Linux which filled the

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last gap and gave us the first complete

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system you could run on a pc GNU plus

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Linux so unfortunately having freedom at

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one more point doesn't guarantee you'll

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keep it there are over a thousand

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different variants of GNU/Linux called

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distributions a few of them are entirely

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free software most of them have non-free

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software added because they are

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maintained by people who aren't

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concerned about freedom they rather and

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convenience but at the cost of freedom

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so you have to check which is a free

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distro to keep your freedom sometimes

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requires a sacrifice sometimes a big

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sacrifice as at Lexington sometimes but

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but in our campaign they tend to be

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little sacrifices anybody with a little

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bit of maturity can make these

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sacrifices for instance you want

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applications but some of them are

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non-free if you want freedom you got it do without them

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so there may be some inconvenience is

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you have to suffer for your freedom sake

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then many websites send non-free

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programs written in JavaScript to the

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users browser if you don't want to run

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non-free programs you should install

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libre jas which blocks keeps out

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non-free javascript and sometimes

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servers will offer to do your computing

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they say send us all your data obviously

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for suckers

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then the server does the computing and

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sends you back the results but you're

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not supposed to think about what's

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happening because it's a cloud and you

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don't see what's going on

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well you should look it's

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software-as-a-service as a software

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substitute and it takes away control of

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your computing so a large fraction of

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the world's web servers are running do /

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lanoxin other free software but i think the

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most important computers

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to put freedom in our your computer's

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not company's web servers they deserve

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freedom also but above all its people

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that deserve freedom so we need to

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advance and to do that we have to cross

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obstacles one of them is there are big

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companies that make a lot of money by

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having control over users and they don't

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want to let us advance we have to

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overcome their opposition

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another is that the mainstream media

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don't talk about free software they have

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a term that they use to bury these

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ethical issues they say open source

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instead now

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it talks about more or less the same

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programs but with different ideas where

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free software activists say this is a

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matter of right and wrong users deserve

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freedom we demand freedom the people say

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open source data once say that

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so instead they say let the users change

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the software and redistribute it and

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they'll make the code better they'll fix

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some bugs

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it may be true but it's a less important issue if

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we want to keep our freedom

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we've got to talk about freedom so say

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free software and you're helping us

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every time another obstacle is that lots

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of schools teach non-free software which

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is basically like teaching the kids to

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smoke tobacco it's implanting dependence

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which is the opposite of what school

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should do a school should prepare

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citizens to live in a strong capable

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independent cooperating and free society

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which means teaching free software in

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the school but there's another reason to

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do that for education some kids want to

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become programmers they're curious they

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wantto know how the programs work well

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the one who's studying a free software

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can understand it the one who's studying

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a non-free program can't learn anything

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because the knowledge in the non-free

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program is withheld denied to the

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students so to uphold the spirit of

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Education the school should make sure

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its programs are free but there's an

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even more important reason schools

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should teach the spirit of goodwill

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the habit of helping other people so the

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class should say if you bring a program

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to class just as if you bring cookies to

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you've got to share it with everyone

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else can't keep it to yourself you gotta

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share the source code so other people

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can learn so don't bring any proprietary

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software to this class

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the school has to set a good example by

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following its own rule should bring only

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free software to class except as a

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reverse engineering exercise another

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obstacle is there's hardware we don't

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know how to write free software for

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because they won't tell us how to use

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the hardware that shocking they want to

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sell you the product and they won't tell

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you how to use it

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they say here's a non-free program you

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can use run it and shut up

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don't bother us well how do we find out

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how to run that hardware with reverse

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engineering you gotta study all those

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zeroes and ones to figure out what they

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really do and write down how to use that

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hardware so someone else can write the

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free program to do it it's hard work but

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it can be done if you want to make a big

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technical contribution that's what you

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should do each new area activity of life

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can bring with it new human rights that

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are necessary and the human rights

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depend on each other if you lose one it

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becomes harder to maintain the others so

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nowadays computing is so important in

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society that the freedoms of free

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software are among the human rights that

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society must establish and protect us

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how to help

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well you can write free software you can

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organize groups to campaign and persuade

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schools and governments to move to free

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software you can help other people when

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they have trouble using free software or

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help them install it you can say free

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software and spread the philosophical

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ideas moving to free software is the

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first step in the liberation of cyberspace

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but of course we also use the internet

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we need other freedoms they're like

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network neutrality and

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putting an end to surveillance of people

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in general