Sharing is good and with digital technology sharing is easy.
Sharing is good and with digital technology sharing is easy.
Author: Richard Stallman
In the US you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server the police can get it without showing you anything.
In the US you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server the police can get it without showing you anything.
With paper printed books you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
With paper printed books you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
In the free/libre software movement we develop software that respects users' freedom so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
In the free/libre software movement we develop software that respects users' freedom so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease we must demand the increase.
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease we must demand the increase.
Value your freedom or you will lose it teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn.
Value your freedom or you will lose it teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics' respond those who don't want to learn.
When I launched the development of the GNU system I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
When I launched the development of the GNU system I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.