Hi

Very true. I totally agree, it is about spreading freedom of developing
software or providing contribution to make it better to be used by people
around the globe. :)

Many Thanks
Kind Regards
Shivam Agarwal
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote:

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> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > Last week I was discussing with my last school teacher regarding
> awareness
>   > and importance of open source among students of high school and senior
>   > secondary
>
> "Open source" means free software (roughly), but without the ethical
> concept of freedom that the Free Software Movement is based on.
> How about spreading awareness of free software and freedom, rather than
> 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.
>
>
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