Why does Humanity needs Free Software ?
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| These projects are directly bound to social movements which cares about
| individuals integrity and world peace. Open source do not care about politics
| and your rights. The actual capitalism system tends to harm life, liberty and
| freedom. Don’t take me wrong, I am not talking against capitalism as long as
| it doesn’t walk on the democracy’s feet. But an economical system which
| threaten human life, is a system which has to be improved, and that’s what
| free software tends to do by spreading social values.
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| Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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http://kin.calvin.free.fr/blog/?p=5
Free Software as a Social Innovation
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| Free Software is a unique social innovation which promotes an empowered,
| sustainable and inclusive information society through its freedoms of use,
| studying, modification and redistribution. Popular Free Software applications
| include the Firefox web browser, the Wordpress blog engine and the Juice
| podcast receiver. The philosophy behind Free Software has also inspired new
| social projects like Wikipedia, Creative Commons and Open Access.
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http://electronicpapercommunication.blog.20minutes.fr/archive/2007/10/23/free-software-as-a-social-innovation.html
Fair Use Advocates Issue Principles for Protecting Online Videos
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| To accompany the "Fair Use Principles" document, EFF has also posted a
| gallery of videos that could be jeopardized by automated copyright filters,
| in hopes that video hosting services and content owners will be able to test
| their filters against these fair use videos.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/13914/fair-use-advocates-issue-principles-protecting-online-videos
http://tinyurl.com/2pgn7x
Related:
Oppression and exploitation may be profitable, but it's immoral:
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| I wanted to be able to live in freedom, I wanted to be able to
| change software that I didn't like, and I wanted to be able to
| cooperate with other people - distribute software to other people.
| I didn't want to accept being forbidden to share, but how could I
| possibly escape from that? The only straightforward way was - don't
| use a computer. There was no other way to escape from those
| restrictions in 1983. The only way there could be another way, was
| to build a free operating system, so that's what I decided to do.
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| I don't bring this issue up, from the viewpoint of why you,
| developing a program, would find it advantageous to respect other
| people's freedom, because the point is it's your moral /duty/.
| You've got no right to trample other people's freedom. Non-free
| software's a social problem, it's wrong, and /that's/ what I argue.
| I argue that position with programmers or non-programmers, whoever
| it happens to be, because it's the same issue. And so what I tell
| people is not "whatever your aims are you will achieve them more
| if you respect other people's freedom", because that's not always
| true. There are aims for which subjugating other people is
| advantageous ... but it isn't /right/.
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http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk132.ogg
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