Some of the relevant issues have been discussed here: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/
Joel --- On Wed, 1/16/13, J.B. Nicholson-Owens <[email protected]> wrote: > From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] interview with Noam Chomsky > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 4:51 PM > Kẏra wrote: > > If you can explain free software in 5 minutes flat, > spend 5 minutes > > working out what he doesn't understand, and manage to > get some sort of > > endorsement out of him, that would be great. > > This seems eminently achievable; it's not hard to explain > what software freedom is, but also relate software freedom > to people in a way where they can see how its obviously a > good thing in the world. > > > I would tie it into his previous work, like > manufacturing consent. Talk > > about how software mediates every aspect of our lives, > and when other > > people have control over our software, they have > control over us. > > Some specifcs to build on this point: > > Karen Sandler's hypertrophic cardiomyopathy talk is online > in multiple places: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDTQLa3NjE for the > video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQnM82MZO0 for a > related interview and her whitepaper "Killed by Code: > Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices" > https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/transparent-medical-devices.html > > It's not difficult to see how proprietary software in > everyday devices people trust with their lives and their > civil liberties -- in cars, boats, medical equipment > including devices worn inside their bodies, and the voting > machines people use just to name a few examples -- is > foreseeably dangerous and wholly unnecessary. > > I wrote an article for Counterpunch.org some time ago about > my work fighting proprietary software in voting machines in > Champaign county Illinois, USA. I introduced software > freedom including a brief bit of history of how Stallman > arrived at an ethical approach -- > http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/08/19/why-we-need-quot-free-software-quot-voting-machines/ > >
