Educating Users about Freedom Zero
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| I've written that some vendors don't comprehend the GPL. Groklaw
| member PolR wrote me an interesting email, in which he told me that
| the problem isn't that vendors don't comprehend it. They do. They
| just are not enamored. They particularly hate freedom zero, PolR
| wrote, "the freedom to run the program for any purpose, any way you
| like," as Richard Stallman has defined it. So some are deliberately
| trying to skirt around it, egged on by Microsoft and their
| mouthpieces, and joined by some in the community who don't much
| care or who care about "success" or money more than they care
| about end users.
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| He did some thinking about how to counter that pressure, and he
| suggests that the answer is educating end users. *They* are the
| ones that need to comprehend the freedoms that the GPL seeks to
| give them, because if they do understand it -- whether they are
| individuals, businesses, or government entities -- they are likely
| to demand them and they will deliberately avoid Brand X "Linux"
| substitutes, because they will comprehend what closed, binary blobs
| will do to them. And vendors, he points out, will never educate them
| about community ways, because they don't want to go there.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061214005438795
Activism and Promotion
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| Something that is really counterproductive in many Open Source
| communities are people who are so rabidly fanatical about one line
| of thinking that they try to pressure everyone into their line of
| thinking. One long standing example of this is the whole FLOSS vs.
| FOSS concept. Some outspoken individuals try to lash out at all
| people who don't take their view on Free and Libre Open Source
| Software...that is, software that is Open Source, Free, and Libre
| (aka without proprietary parts included).
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/171-Activism-and-Promotion.html
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