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Since the drought broke last year, it’s mostly been too rainy and cloudy for the modest solar installation to keep my laptop charged, so, more of my evenings have been spent drinking plonk with a neighbour, from further down the track, than mastering the command line and working towards my LPI certification as I’d planned to do. The results of all this are that the neighbour is now developing a belated interest in computers and we are now looking for a cheap computer to get him set up with Kubuntu.

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Free software is about freedom

This article demonstrates exactly what free software is all about. It is about the right to help yourself; to be free from the helplessness of being subject to a proprietor. Free software is about the right to cooperate within a community. A characteristic of a good citizen is one that shares resources. The author of the article did exactly that, he shared copies of his computer programs with the members of his community.

Proprietary software prevents these things from happening. Proprietary software subjects users into being helpless by not giving them the right to tinker with the programming code. Proprietary software divides a community by disallowing them to practise the good deed of sharing computer programs. This is why we consider proprietary software to be evil.

People allow this to happen to them because they don't know any better. When we choose proprietary software, we choose to relinquish the right to help ourselves and cooperate within a community. Choose free software and you will be free.

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