"Tthorough discussion of enclosure must consider the international institutions that impose it. The International Monetary Fund is a well-known example; its "rescue" agreements attack the intellectual commons through "user fees" for public school, which prevent millions of poor children from attending.
Read more »Intellectual Enclosure, by Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman: Free Software in Ethics and Practice
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"In 1984, Richard Stallman founded a social movement known as the free software movement. The free software movement fights for the ability to control our computers as a cooperative community (as opposed to being under the rule of software proprietors where users have only as much control over their computers as the proprietor allows).
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New Richard Stallman Video in Manchester
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The newly formed Manchester Free software Group hosted Richard Stallman in Manchester or the first of May.
Talking on the subject of Free Software in ethics and practice", RMS drew a crowd of more than 300 people to the event, run in association with the BCS and IET.
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Total power over execution of a program
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RMS: «The EFF is fighting an attempt to twist copyright law to give the software developer total power over execution of the program. Victory in this case will not eliminate the practice of restricting how users run proprietary programs. It will only limit the developers to using contracts as the means. This will not make users free.
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Declaration of Lindependence
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"...We, therefore, the computer users of the world solemnly publish and declare that all computer users ought to be free and independent of proprietary software; that they are absolved from all allegiances to, and all political and social connection to, proprietary software, and claim all rights digital freedom provides.
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Free Software in Education: What Policy Should India Adopt for ICT in School Education?
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"The sections below develop reasons for adoption of free software exclusively for school education. Towards the end, a list of policy guidelines and recommendations are provided for discussion. The document does not cover the pros and cons of using ICT for education. I will try to intervene during the deliberations on these issues. Why Free Software for education? ..."
Read more »Why Free Software
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"Why should we care to have a 100 per cent free operating system? Isn't being almost free enough? Not if you value freedom itself.
The Free Software Movement was founded to win freedom for software users. Its offshoot, Open Source, was founded to downplay freedom as a value. This difference, which may seem subtle, has big consequences and this is one example of them..."
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GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
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Ask average computer users what FOSS is about, and, if they've even heard of it, they'll probably say something about the source code being publicly available.
Read more »Non-free SF on free systems
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"People are ignorant, but we already know that. As usual, I’ve read something really stupid on Twitter this morning. It said: I hope Apple will develop for everyone [every OS]. I think it would be one of the worst things to ever happen. Why do people want to install non-free software on free systems?
Read more »Why Microsoft Should not Lose (and free software will still win)
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An Intriguing title, and provocative too! If you want to find out why anyone should be remotely well disposed to Microsoft, you might find this a challenging take on the potentially symbiotic relationship between it and open source free software.
Read more »Towards a dialogue between scientists, civic groups and social movements in Brazil
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"...Science, technology and social and economic interests are profoundly intertwined today, interacting and mutually influencing one another. Many movements that are struggling for changes now recognize that, unless these issues are taken up by many and various groups of citizens, it will not be possible to deal with the challenges of our times.
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A new wave of freedom
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"The new freedom movement , in software, knowledge, publishing and commerce, will change the way we think, do things and interact..."
Read more »UNESCO Free Software Portal
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"It really is good to see so many international NGOs and intergovermental organisations creating open educational resources and/or promoting open access. UNESCO has created a gateway to resources related to Free Software..."
Read more »Freedom Fighter of the Digital Age
http://en.epochtimes.com –
"As music, movies and books move further into the digital realm, the question of our freedoms being diminished was raised by Richard Stallman at Cambridge University on April 30th at his talk on 'Copyright vs Community'.
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Quote of the Day from RMS
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RMS: «Spending time to support a non-free system is not, in general, a virtue, and is not a particularly effective way to become a better
person.»
