During the week that included the 8th to the 11th of July, the TechTudo made the cover of FISL 16, the International Free Software Forum most free software in the world event, held in Porto Alegre. We speak of free software go, free software here … But, what is “free software” anyway? To clarify once the subject, we talked with speakers and organizers of FISL. Understand exactly what is free software and why it may be an option to private systems.
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In general, free software and non-free serve for the same purpose: to manage the computer’s operating interface, access e-mails, edit videos, surf the internet, setting up websites . The difference is that the free software source code is open. With open source, developers can “read” how the program works and can play it, customize it or use it as a basis for developing new software. See how they think the industry experts.
“Software is like a kitchen recipe,” said Cedric Thomas, CEO of OW2, the international consortium developing open source components.
For Thomas, the solutions prescribed in the “recipe” of the software may not be enough. “You have to cook. You need the ability to make revenue be useful for the company you work for and the people outside it, “he explains.
With open source, the very user community can create updates to the product, without relying on the developer company. Jon “Maddog” Hall, president of Linux International, a non-profit association of the most famous free operating system in the world, remember that Microsoft has long ceased to upgrade Windows XP.
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“If you have a computer with Windows XP and need a update, it’s a shame, but it will not happen. “says Maddog” What Microsoft will tell you is, ‘Well, upgrade to Windows 10′ But your old computer can not run on Windows 10. If you turn,. maybe some of the installed products do not work in Windows 10, “he explains.
” All software has access problems, but proprietary software is private. When you have bugs, you need to wait for the patch of the company, “says Mark Mazoni, CEO of SERPRO (National Data Processing), a public company that develops, for example, applications used on the tax return.
Security Question
The free software activists protesting the closed source prevents the user knows exactly what he It is installing the machine. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed to the whole world that computers and software had “backdoors”, data output ports that sent information to the Secret Service of the United States without the consent or knowledge of the users.
“We have warned for some time – will give this issue private business software. Those who use Outlook as e-mail’re asking to be spied on. It is written there that has a backdoor, “says Ricardo Fritsch, president of the Free Software Association, organizer of the FISL. The solution? Exchange all for free software.
The international espionage in the United States created a small crisis in international relations between that country and Brazil. At the time, evidence indicated that the White House had access even to the staff of President email.
The shock was not higher because the central structure of the federal administration has been operating for some time with free software, says Fritsch.
“The mooring ships to the transfers to municipalities, everything is done with free software. Other products coexist, but the central structure, like a cloud of income tax, is OpenStack, “assures Mazini, referring to a popular cloud operating system open source.
“The country can not be at the mercy of a backdoor linked to Clause American Patriotic. All software information go of some sort. We want to know what they go through, “he explains.
For those who still have doubts doubts the quality free programs compared to paid solutions, know that activists and government are not the only ones to use software free.
“The owner is hegemonic world, but it is the largest user of free software in the world” reveals the general coordinator of the Free Software Association, Sady Jacques. And highlights the role of the free software movement: “We have to show that free software is the most obvious way,” closes
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