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Being Free - why it matters
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| So pragmatism vs idealism is wrong. You
| need pragmatism if you want your ideal
| world, and by only idealism you get -
| fairly litte. And the FSF has done plenty
| of pragmatic things, which is why they
| made a huge difference. The reason I
| mentioned them is that lately, some
| actions seem a bit too extreme to me...
| But there are ppl out there in 'our world'
| who are FAR more extreme, and hindering
| FOSS adoption that way. Either by opposing
| things, stopping others who're doing
| great, or just being negative and thus
| giving a bad impression to the outside
| world.
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http://nowwhatthe.blogspot.com/2010/06/being-free-why-it-matters.html
FSF: Working Together For Free Software
http://www.the-source.com/2010/07/fsf-working-together-for-free-software/
I use Windows... how can I move to free software?
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| You can install free software applications
| on your Windows machine and use them
| instead of proprietary software from
| Microsoft and others.
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http://www.fsf.org/working-together/moving/windows/
Recent:
New Ground on Terminology Debate?
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| Furthermore, I try to have faith in our
| community's intelligence. Regardless of how
| people get drawn into FLOSS: be it from the
| moral software freedom arguments or the
| technical-advantage-only open source ones, I
| don't think people stop listening
| immediately upon their arrival in our
| community. I know this even from my own
| adoption of software freedom: I came for the
| Free as in Price, but I stayed for the Free
| as in Freedom. It's only because I couldn't
| afford a SCO Unix license in 1992 that I
| installed GNU/Linux. But, I learned within
| just a year why the software freedom was
| what mattered most.
|
| Surely, others have a similar introduction
| to the community: either drawn in by zero-
| cost availability or the technical benefits
| first, but still very interested to learn
| about software freedom. My goal is to reach
| those who have arrived in the community. I
| therefore try to speak almost constantly
| about software freedom, why it's a moral
| issue, and why I work every day to help
| either reduce the amount of proprietary
| software, or increase the amount of Free
| Software in the world. My hope is that newer
| community members will hear my arguments,
| see my actions, and be convinced that a
| moral and ethical commitment to software
| freedom is the long lasting principle worth
| undertaking. In essence, I seek to lead by
| example as much as possible.
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/06/23/open-source.html
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