[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
I'd like to remind people that the Free Software Foundation is not a supporter of "open source". I launched the free software movement in 1983. We campaign for free (libre) software: software that respects the freedom of those who use it. Our principle is that a nonfree program does injustice to its users, and our aim is to replace all nonfree software with free software. "Open source" was launched as a reaction against the free software movement in 1998 by people who liked our free programs but rejected our principles. For them, it is a matter of convenience, not a matter of right and wrong. Those open source supporters have a right to their views, but the FSF and I continue to campaign for free software, NOT for open source. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for more explanation of the difference between free software and open source. See also http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
