Submitted by Thiago Mendonça (thiagoΘacesso · me):
Here at acesso.me, now and then I talk about GNU / Linux and free software. You dropped from parachutes here, click the beautiful link down there and take a visu in other posts, however, what I want to talk here today with you is about a basic differentiation of freedoms that I see a lot of people forget out there in this big world of God and committing horrendous blunders because of that.
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When you do not know something and begins to be taught (by someone, something, somewhere) , you are always faced with their freedom of choice. Have you noticed that? Think with me:
You are a child who has lived his whole life going to church because their parents made you, one day you get to learn different things about different religions or the science that explains the miraculous facts happen in the Bible, you who never before had access to this kind of information now have in your hands an incredible freedom! The freedom to choose which path to tread! What do you know, what you decided to create joining the two or abstain from everything and not walk any more of them! Note, the real freedom of choice of what to do only happens when you acquire knowledge of the facts.
With regard to its philosophical / marketing / professional position / practical / emotional in essentially all of life is like that.
When we speak of free software the decision to join the movement (at any level of membership you think necessary) is the very same thing. You never heard of the hell would SL and when acquires knowledge, you have ALL the freedom of the world decide to join this computational philosophy / social or not! The same goes for the OSI (which, yes, has a pegged philosophy the initiative, but the same, although similar in some respects to the Free Software has different primary points), with Proprietary Software and any other type of computing that there is out there that I do not know.
However, from the moment you use your freedom of choice and makes a decision, you automatically ceases to have that freedom. You decided to follow a path! And your options are: follow him or stop following him, anything else will be a variant of these two …
It’s Complicated is not it?
Let a few examples.
In the 1980s when Stallman could no longer fit the computational model to his work at MIT proposed to him, he decided with the freedom of his choice, create an alternative that computer model and began to base I would be (in 1983) the Free Software Movement, movement of which I am adept and milito in favor. Stallman lost freedom of choice when it decided which way to walk …
There between 1998 and 1999, Bruce Perens and Raymond S. Erc founded the OSI (Open Source Initiative) as a dicidente model of Free Software! They trailed different paths, used their freedom of choice and began to walk the path of Free Software, decided that one way not beating right with its ideals and did not follow it … thus creating a proper way …
E just as these people used the freedom of their choice (that Microsoft used as slang for your maravicalamitoso Windows98) I used mine and I decided to follow the movement founded by Stallman … after making that decision, I gave up my freedom.
The whole problem is that, for us we made that decision consciously, it is extremely clear and objective! Gotta be! If you resolve to join a movement called Free Software in a society that preaches Freedom of Choice, your decision and what it entails has to be very clear! Unfortunately, not everyone can separate one from the other … possibly the confusion of names or perhaps unwillingness to understand, do not know …
An example of this is the way that anti SL communities (I will not call -las OSI pro or pro pro Microsoft or anything else, because it is not good to generalize), these anti SL communities has in its members a rooted flea such that come texts of the Free Software activists simply for being in favor of something they are against, become a personal affront … Citing here as an example the episode of FLISOL without Ubuntu, where several people (including myself) have published texts in favor of the inclusion of distro from Canonical in a Free Software installation festival . Out of nowhere, after the disclosure of the texts, any one who had posted was someone who was delaying the growth of Free Software, because Canonical it, Canonical that … and the vast majority of chorumesca mass (one that just wants to be hater without seeking healthy arguments) started trying to dilute the #semUbuntu movement trying to diminish the importance of it.
Not so …
#semUbuntu and #maisGNU, although two different names, is one movement formed by Free Software activists who see that the movement has lost its strength over the years, even in the event where the movement itself was focus. And this movement pro free software decided to start a militancy in favor of a distribution cleaning GNU / Linux not free distributed by Canonical, simply because it is the most used and business bias (other than CentOS, Fedora or any minor Ubuntu refisefuqui that They are guided by community). The militancy of #semUbuntu / #maisGNU is, always has been and always will be in favor of free software and its representativeness. This means that the #semUbuntu not give a damn about OpenSUSE, Fedora, CentOS, Elementary or any other distro that distribute the linux kernel does not clean blobs and a shovel proprietary software by default in your installation? Anyway! We are #semUbuntu yes! But we are always #maisGNU! This means that the more free software, the better! So much so that I am at this moment writing this text using the gedit in a trisquel running on a Thinkpad X60s with libreboot which is my standard work equipment, and you know what? The feeling for me as Free Software activist, is almost divine …
Taking advantage of this text which aims to finish time with some confusion, also I want to make an addendum those who try to hurt free software activists the fallacy that without free hardware there is no free software.
Just as Freedom of Choice and Software Freedom are two completely different things, Freedom of Software and Hardware Freedom are too. Freedom of software depends on the community to happen. Once there is free software developers writing programs and people using Free Software is alive. Freedom of hardware depends exclusively common marketing models. If a manufacturer decides whether or not to open the source of your peripherals to the community and let them or not under the four freedoms, is a choice of manufacturer, choose that for them it is a purely monetary issue.
Think me, Intel would be more interested today in releasing the schematics of his next line I7 to the community and risk of AMD catch these schemes, improve them and make a new line of processors or would of greatest interest to keep these esqueme to 37 feet off the ground? I’m not saying I agree with this view, but exposing one of many barriers.
In any case, the fact is, the existence of software freedom depend on the freedom of the hardware, but depends on the friendliness of it, as is the case of this Thinkpad X60s I’m using. After flashing the libreboot it, I had to open the creature and change the wifi card for one that was friendly to free firmware release my netbook of the BIOS handcuffs (proprietary software) for something free, let me make a hardware change, one that does not work with free firmware for one that works! Free Software is independent of hardware free!
I hope this text has clarified the minds of some of you about the difference between free software, freedom of choice and freedom of hardware.
They are different things, independent from one another and (it comes to the software freedom and choice) are not interchangeable.
For now it is, stay in peace and see you soon.
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