* Lori Nagel <[email protected]> [2019-10-23 02:56]: > It is time to movepast the controversies and discuss the real > issues, the issue of howto be more effective as free software > advocates.
Very good initiative! As free software philosophy is freely licensed to spread and duplicate, every individual loyal to free software philosophy may advocate and bring understanding to own friends and society in general. Articles are free to duplicate and place on your own websites. It is very beneficial to speak about free software philosophy in universities, schools and people's universities. Agenda for such presentation could be as simple as: 1. Who is Dr. Richard Stallman? 2. What is GNU Project? 3. What are 4 software freedoms and what are users' human rights in computing. 4. Where such freedoms are defined, in the GPL license. 5. Examples of great free software projects 6. Distribution and duplication of DVDs with free operating system distributions. 7. Making your own GNU Friends Club in your community and helping others to liberate computers from proprietary software, including liberating their Linux kernels from proprietary blobs. The above agenda is simple and can be presented within 15 minutes, everybody may do it in their own community. > Free software activists should go into the enemy territory and post > messages aboutwhy xyz piece of proprietary software is bad. In general ANY proprietary software is bad for reason of being proprietary. Free software movement is about free software and liberation. "Open source" is movement of people who rather advocate better software quality, not quite freedoms, it is mixture of people who understand free software and those who simply appreciate that software is there for use. We are friends. People from "open source" are rather to speak about qualities of software. While those from free software movement will speak about freedom. That is the difference and for this reason all proprietary software has no place on this planet as all of such software are abusing human rights. > They should do so in groups going into the same community so that it > isn’t just one lone voice who is a troll. You are right. That is how many social actions are spread and disseminated. Yet strength of the free software philosophy is that people adopt it individually and spread it individually. Before some time, maybe few years, I have seen some commotion when GNU was mentioned as true name of system with explanation that "Linux" is a kernel and not the operating system. Today I see not much of turmoil on that subject and the facts are accepted as such, and people support GNU and GNU project and getting the facts. > Non-technical users do not have to settle for DRM or take it when a > proprietary software company takes their software and community out > from under them. Many people hate thesethings but take it with some > kind of acceptance, like it is a fact oflife like eating or > breathing air. It is not and the proprietary software industry does > not have to exist. Proprietary software is set of hidden commands which one cannot know what they are doing to you. And the fact is that society have been manipulated by using proprietary software, series of hidden commands that manipulate users' data, users' rights in computing. For those who know what proprietary software does, it is kind of masochism without sex. For those who are not aware of problems with proprietary software, they can be enlightened. Jean _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
