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From: GNUN
Subject: www/philosophy compromise.el.html compromise.pt...
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:59:57 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     GNUN <gnun>     13/07/04 14:59:57

Modified files:
        philosophy     : compromise.el.html compromise.pt-br.html 
                         compromise.zh-cn.html 
Added files:
        philosophy/po  : compromise.el-diff.html 
                         compromise.pt-br-diff.html 
                         compromise.zh-cn-diff.html 

Log message:
        Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/compromise.el.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/compromise.pt-br.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/compromise.zh-cn.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.20&r2=1.21
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/compromise.el-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/compromise.pt-br-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/compromise.zh-cn-diff.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
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 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/compromise.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.el.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/compromise.el.po";>
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/compromise.el.po</a>' -->
+ <!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/philosophy/compromise.html" -->
+ <!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" value="/philosophy/po/compromise.el-diff.html" -->
+ <!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2013-05-05" -->
+ <!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.el.html" -->
 <h2>Αποφεύγοντας ολέθριους συμβιβασμούς</h2>
 
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+$Date: 2013/07/04 14:59:55 $
 
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 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/compromise.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.pt-br.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/compromise.pt-br.po";>
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/compromise.pt-br.po</a>' -->
+ <!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/philosophy/compromise.html" -->
+ <!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" value="/philosophy/po/compromise.pt-br-diff.html" -->
+ <!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2013-05-05" -->
+ <!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.pt-br.html" -->
 <h2>Evitando Compromissos Ruinosos</h2>
 
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-$Date: 2013/02/28 19:11:11 $
+$Date: 2013/07/04 14:59:55 $
 
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 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/compromise.translist" -->
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+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/compromise.zh-cn.po";>
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/compromise.zh-cn.po</a>' -->
+ <!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/philosophy/compromise.html" -->
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+ <!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2013-05-05" -->
+ <!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.zh-cn.html" -->
 <h2>避免毁灭性的妥协</h2>
 
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--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
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@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>/philosophy/compromise.html-diff</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+span.removed { background-color: #f22; color: #000; }
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+</style></head>
+<body><pre>
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --&gt;
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.75 
--&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;title&gt;Avoiding Ruinous Compromises
+- GNU Project - Free Software <span class="removed"><del><strong>Foundation 
(FSF)&lt;/title&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Foundation&lt;/title&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/compromise.translist" --&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --&gt;
+&lt;h2&gt;Avoiding Ruinous Compromises&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;div style="float: right; font-size: 90%; width: 30em; margin: 1em;
+background-color: #ececec; padding: 1em; -moz-border-radius: 1em;
+margin-top: 4em;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&ldquo;Twenty-five years
+ago &lt;a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html"&gt;on September 27, 1983, I
+announced a plan&lt;/a&gt; to create a completely free operating system
+called GNU&mdash;for &lsquo;GNU's Not Unix&rsquo;.  As part of the
+25th anniversary of the GNU system, I have written this article on how
+our community can avoid ruinous compromises.  In addition to avoiding
+such compromises, there are many ways you can &lt;a href="/help/"&gt;help
+GNU&lt;/a&gt; and free software.  One basic way is
+to &lt;a 
href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=4052"&gt;
+join the Free Software Foundation&lt;/a&gt; as an Associate
+Member.&rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&mdash;&lt;b&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;by &lt;strong&gt;Richard Stallman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The free software movement aims for a social
+change: &lt;a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"&gt;to make all software
+free&lt;/a&gt; so that all software users are free and can be part of a
+community of cooperation.  Every nonfree program gives its developer
+unjust power over the users.  Our goal is to put an end to that
+injustice.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The road to freedom
+is &lt;a 
href="http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2008/spring/the-last-mile-is-always-the-hardest/"&gt;
+a long road&lt;/a&gt;.  It will take many steps and many years to reach a
+world in which it is normal for software users to have freedom.  Some
+of these steps are hard, and require sacrifice.  Some of them become easier
+if we make compromises with people that have different goals.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Thus, the &lt;a href="http://www.fsf.org/"&gt;Free Software
+Foundation&lt;/a&gt; makes compromises&mdash;even major ones.  For
+instance, we made compromises in the patent provisions of version 3 of
+the &lt;a href="/licenses/gpl.html"&gt;GNU General Public License&lt;/a&gt; 
(GNU GPL) so
+that major companies would contribute to and distribute GPLv3-covered
+software and thus bring some patents under the effect of these
+provisions.  &lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;img src="/graphics/gplv3-large.png" alt="" style="float: left;" /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/licenses/lgpl.html"&gt;The Lesser GPL&lt;/a&gt;'s 
purpose is a
+compromise: we use it on certain chosen free libraries to permit their
+use in nonfree programs because we think that legally prohibiting
+this would only drive developers to proprietary libraries instead.  We
+accept and install code in GNU programs to make them work together
+with common nonfree programs, and we document and publicize this in
+ways that encourage users of the latter to install the former, but not
+vice versa.  We support specific campaigns we agree with, even when we
+don't fully agree with the groups behind them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But we reject certain compromises even though many others in our
+community are willing to make them.  For instance,
+we &lt;a href="/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html"&gt;
+endorse only the GNU/Linux distributions&lt;/a&gt; that have policies not to
+include nonfree software or lead users to install it.  To endorse
+nonfree distributions would be a &lt;acronym title="ruinous
+(r&#363;'&#601;-n&#601;s) adj. 1. Causing or apt to cause ruin;
+destructive.  2. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or
+decayed."&gt;ruinous&lt;/acronym&gt; compromise.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Compromises are ruinous if they would work against our aims in the
+long term.  That can occur either at the level of ideas or at the level of
+actions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the level of ideas, ruinous compromises are those that reinforce
+the premises we seek to change.  Our goal is a world in which software
+users are free, but as yet most computer users do not even recognize
+freedom as an issue.  They have taken up &ldquo;consumer&rdquo;
+values, which means they judge any program only on practical characteristics
+such as price and convenience.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Dale Carnegie's classic self-help book, &lt;cite&gt;How to Win 
Friends and
+Influence People&lt;/cite&gt;, advises that the most effective way to
+persuade someone to do something is to present arguments that appeal
+to his values.  There are ways we can appeal to the consumer values
+typical in our society.  For instance, free software obtained gratis
+can save the user money.  Many free programs are convenient and
+reliable, too.  Citing those practical benefits has succeeded in
+persuading many users to adopt various free programs, some of which
+are now quite successful.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If getting more people to use some free programs is as far as you
+aim to go, you might decide to keep quiet about the concept of
+freedom, and focus only on the practical advantages that make sense
+in terms of consumer values.  That's what the term &ldquo;open
+source&rdquo; and its associated rhetoric do.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;That approach can get us only part way to the goal of freedom.  People
+who use free software only because it is convenient will stick with it
+only as long as it is convenient.  And they will see no reason not to
+use convenient proprietary programs along with it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The philosophy of open source presupposes and appeals to consumer
+values, and this affirms and reinforces them.  That's why we
+&lt;a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html"&gt;do not support
+open source.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;img src="/graphics/gnulaptop.png" alt="" style="float: right;" /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To establish a free community fully and lastingly, we need to do
+more than get people to use some free software.  We need to spread the
+idea of judging software (and other things) on &ldquo;citizen
+values&rdquo;, based on whether it respects users' freedom and
+community, not just in terms of convenience.  Then people will not
+fall into the trap of a proprietary program baited by an attractive,
+convenient feature.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To promote citizen values, we have to talk about them and show how
+they are the basis of our actions.  We must reject the Dale Carnegie
+compromise that would influence their actions by endorsing their
+consumer values.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is not to say we cannot cite practical advantage at all&mdash;we 
can
+and we do.  It becomes a problem only when the practical advantage steals
+the scene and pushes freedom into the background.  Therefore,
+when we cite the practical advantages of free software, we reiterate
+frequently that those are just &lt;em&gt;additional, secondary&lt;/em&gt; 
reasons
+to prefer it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It's not enough to make our words accord with our ideals; our
+actions have to accord with them too.  So we must also avoid
+compromises that involve doing or legitimizing the things we aim to
+stamp out.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For instance, experience shows that you can attract some users to
+&lt;a href="/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html"&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; if you include some
+nonfree programs.  This could mean a cute nonfree application that
+will catch some user's eye, or a nonfree programming platform such
+as &lt;a href="/philosophy/java-trap.html"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; (formerly) or the
+Flash runtime (still), or a nonfree device driver that enables
+support for certain hardware models.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These compromises are tempting, but they undermine the goal.  If
+you distribute nonfree software, or steer people towards it, you will
+find it hard to say, &ldquo;Nonfree software is an injustice, a
+social problem, and we must put an end to it.&rdquo; And even if you
+do continue to say those words, your actions will undermine them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The issue here is not whether people should be 
&lt;em&gt;able&lt;/em&gt;
+or &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to install nonfree software; a general-purpose
+system enables and allows users to do whatever they wish.  The issue
+is whether we guide users towards nonfree software.  What they do on
+their own is their responsibility; what we do for them, and what we
+direct them towards, is ours.  We must not direct the
+users towards proprietary software as if it were a solution, because
+proprietary software is the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A ruinous compromise is not just a bad influence on others.  It can
+distort your own values, too, through cognitive dissonance.  If you
+have certain values, but your actions imply other, conflicting values,
+you are likely to change your values or your actions so as to resolve the
+contradiction.  Thus, projects that argue only from practical
+advantages, or direct people toward some nonfree software, nearly
+always shy away from even &lt;em&gt;suggesting&lt;/em&gt; that nonfree software
+is unethical.  For their participants, as well as for the public, they
+reinforce consumer values.  We must reject these compromises if we wish
+to keep our values straight.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to move to free software without compromising the goal
+of freedom, look at &lt;a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources"&gt;the FSF's
+resources area&lt;/a&gt;.  It lists hardware and machine configurations that
+work with free software, &lt;a href="/distros"&gt; totally free GNU/Linux
+distros&lt;/a&gt; to install, and <span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;a 
href="http://directory.fsf.org/"&gt;</em></ins></span>
+thousands of free software <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>packages</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>packages&lt;/a&gt;</em></ins></span> that
+work in a 100 percent free software environment.  If you want to help the
+community stay on the road to freedom, one important way is to
+publicly uphold citizen values.  When people are discussing what is
+good or bad, or what to do, cite the values of freedom and community
+and argue from them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A road that lets you go faster is <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>no improvement</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>not better</em></ins></span> if it leads to the
+wrong place.  Compromise is essential to achieve an ambitious goal,
+but beware of compromises that lead away from the goal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;hr /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;
+For a similar point in a different area of life,
+see &lt;a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/nudge-is-not-enough-behaviour-change"&gt;";'Nudge'
+is not enough"&lt;/a&gt;.
+&lt;/p&gt;
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;/div&gt;</strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- for id="content", starts 
in the include above --&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --&gt;
+&lt;div id="footer"&gt;
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;
+Please</strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;Please</em></ins></span> send <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>general</em></ins></span> FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to 
&lt;a
+href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  There are 
also &lt;a
+href="/contact/"&gt;other ways to contact&lt;/a&gt; the FSF.
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;br /&gt;
+Please send broken</strong></del></span>  <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Broken</em></ins></span> links and other
+corrections or suggestions <span class="inserted"><ins><em>can be 
sent</em></ins></span> to &lt;a <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.
+&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;</strong></del></span>
+<span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;&lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+        replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+        We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+        translations.  However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+        Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+        to &lt;a href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;
+        &lt;address@hidden&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+        &lt;p&gt;For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+        our web pages, see &lt;a
+        href="/server/standards/README.translations.html"&gt;Translations
+        README&lt;/a&gt;. --&gt;</em></ins></span>
+Please see the &lt;a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html"&gt;Translations 
README&lt;/a&gt; for
+information on coordinating and submitting translations of this <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>article.
+&lt;/p&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>article.&lt;/p&gt;</em></ins></span>
+
+&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2008, 2009 &lt;a 
href="http://www.stallman.org/"&gt;Richard
+Stallman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;Richard 
Stallman</strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;This page</em></ins></span> is <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>the founder of the Free Software Foundation.
+You can copy and redistribute this article</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>licensed</em></ins></span> under <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>the</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>a</em></ins></span> &lt;a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/"&gt;Creative
+Commons <span class="removed"><del><strong>Attribution 
Noderivs</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Attribution-NoDerivs</em></ins></span> 3.0 <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>license&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;!--
+&lt;rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
+    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
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+&lt;Work rdf:about=""&gt;
+&lt;license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/"; /&gt;
+&lt;/Work&gt;
+
+&lt;License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/"&gt;
+   &lt;requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"; /&gt;
+   &lt;permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"; /&gt;
+
+   &lt;permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"; /&gt;
+   &lt;requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"; /&gt;
+&lt;/License&gt;
+
+&lt;/rdf:RDF&gt;
+
+--&gt;</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>United States 
License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</em></ins></span>
+
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Updated:
+&lt;!-- timestamp start --&gt;
+$Date: 2013/07/04 14:59:56 $
+&lt;!-- timestamp end --&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;!-- All pages on the GNU web server 
should have the section about    --&gt;
+&lt;!-- verbatim copying.  Please do NOT remove this without talking     --&gt;
+&lt;!-- with the webmasters first. --&gt; 
+&lt;!-- Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document 
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+&lt;!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." 
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+&lt;/div&gt;
+&lt;/body&gt;
+&lt;/html&gt;
+</pre></body></html>

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+&lt;title&gt;Avoiding Ruinous Compromises
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+&lt;h2&gt;Avoiding Ruinous Compromises&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;div style="float: right; font-size: 90%; width: 30em; margin: 1em;
+background-color: #ececec; padding: 1em; -moz-border-radius: 1em;
+margin-top: 4em;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&ldquo;Twenty-five years
+ago &lt;a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html"&gt;on September 27, 1983, I
+announced a plan&lt;/a&gt; to create a completely free operating system
+called GNU&mdash;for &lsquo;GNU's Not Unix&rsquo;.  As part of the
+25th anniversary of the GNU system, I have written this article on how
+our community can avoid ruinous compromises.  In addition to avoiding
+such compromises, there are many ways you can &lt;a href="/help/"&gt;help
+GNU&lt;/a&gt; and free software.  One basic way is
+to &lt;a 
href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=4052"&gt;
+join the Free Software Foundation&lt;/a&gt; as an Associate
+Member.&rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&mdash;&lt;b&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;by &lt;strong&gt;Richard Stallman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The free software movement aims for a social
+change: &lt;a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"&gt;to make all software
+free&lt;/a&gt; so that all software users are free and can be part of a
+community of cooperation.  Every nonfree program gives its developer
+unjust power over the users.  Our goal is to put an end to that
+injustice.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The road to freedom
+is &lt;a 
href="http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2008/spring/the-last-mile-is-always-the-hardest/"&gt;
+a long road&lt;/a&gt;.  It will take many steps and many years to reach a
+world in which it is normal for software users to have freedom.  Some
+of these steps are hard, and require sacrifice.  Some of them become easier
+if we make compromises with people that have different goals.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Thus, the &lt;a href="http://www.fsf.org/"&gt;Free Software
+Foundation&lt;/a&gt; makes compromises&mdash;even major ones.  For
+instance, we made compromises in the patent provisions of version 3 of
+the &lt;a href="/licenses/gpl.html"&gt;GNU General Public License&lt;/a&gt; 
(GNU GPL) so
+that major companies would contribute to and distribute GPLv3-covered
+software and thus bring some patents under the effect of these
+provisions.  &lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;img src="/graphics/gplv3-large.png" alt="" style="float: left;" /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/licenses/lgpl.html"&gt;The Lesser GPL&lt;/a&gt;'s 
purpose is a
+compromise: we use it on certain chosen free libraries to permit their
+use in nonfree programs because we think that legally prohibiting
+this would only drive developers to proprietary libraries instead.  We
+accept and install code in GNU programs to make them work together
+with common nonfree programs, and we document and publicize this in
+ways that encourage users of the latter to install the former, but not
+vice versa.  We support specific campaigns we agree with, even when we
+don't fully agree with the groups behind them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But we reject certain compromises even though many others in our
+community are willing to make them.  For instance,
+we &lt;a href="/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html"&gt;
+endorse only the GNU/Linux distributions&lt;/a&gt; that have policies not to
+include nonfree software or lead users to install it.  To endorse
+nonfree distributions would be a &lt;acronym title="ruinous
+(r&#363;'&#601;-n&#601;s) adj. 1. Causing or apt to cause ruin;
+destructive.  2. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or
+decayed."&gt;ruinous&lt;/acronym&gt; compromise.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Compromises are ruinous if they would work against our aims in the
+long term.  That can occur either at the level of ideas or at the level of
+actions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the level of ideas, ruinous compromises are those that reinforce
+the premises we seek to change.  Our goal is a world in which software
+users are free, but as yet most computer users do not even recognize
+freedom as an issue.  They have taken up &ldquo;consumer&rdquo;
+values, which means they judge any program only on practical characteristics
+such as price and convenience.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Dale Carnegie's classic self-help book, &lt;cite&gt;How to Win 
Friends and
+Influence People&lt;/cite&gt;, advises that the most effective way to
+persuade someone to do something is to present arguments that appeal
+to his values.  There are ways we can appeal to the consumer values
+typical in our society.  For instance, free software obtained gratis
+can save the user money.  Many free programs are convenient and
+reliable, too.  Citing those practical benefits has succeeded in
+persuading many users to adopt various free programs, some of which
+are now quite successful.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If getting more people to use some free programs is as far as you
+aim to go, you might decide to keep quiet about the concept of
+freedom, and focus only on the practical advantages that make sense
+in terms of consumer values.  That's what the term &ldquo;open
+source&rdquo; and its associated rhetoric do.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;That approach can get us only part way to the goal of freedom.  People
+who use free software only because it is convenient will stick with it
+only as long as it is convenient.  And they will see no reason not to
+use convenient proprietary programs along with it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The philosophy of open source presupposes and appeals to consumer
+values, and this affirms and reinforces them.  That's why we
+&lt;a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html"&gt;do not support
+open source.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;img src="/graphics/gnulaptop.png" alt="" style="float: right;" /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To establish a free community fully and lastingly, we need to do
+more than get people to use some free software.  We need to spread the
+idea of judging software (and other things) on &ldquo;citizen
+values&rdquo;, based on whether it respects users' freedom and
+community, not just in terms of convenience.  Then people will not
+fall into the trap of a proprietary program baited by an attractive,
+convenient feature.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To promote citizen values, we have to talk about them and show how
+they are the basis of our actions.  We must reject the Dale Carnegie
+compromise that would influence their actions by endorsing their
+consumer values.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is not to say we cannot cite practical advantage at all&mdash;we 
can
+and we do.  It becomes a problem only when the practical advantage steals
+the scene and pushes freedom into the background.  Therefore,
+when we cite the practical advantages of free software, we reiterate
+frequently that those are just &lt;em&gt;additional, secondary&lt;/em&gt; 
reasons
+to prefer it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It's not enough to make our words accord with our ideals; our
+actions have to accord with them too.  So we must also avoid
+compromises that involve doing or legitimizing the things we aim to
+stamp out.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For instance, experience shows that you can attract some users to
+&lt;a href="/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html"&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; if you include some
+nonfree programs.  This could mean a cute nonfree application that
+will catch some user's eye, or a nonfree programming platform such
+as &lt;a href="/philosophy/java-trap.html"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; (formerly) or the
+Flash runtime (still), or a nonfree device driver that enables
+support for certain hardware models.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These compromises are tempting, but they undermine the goal.  If
+you distribute nonfree software, or steer people towards it, you will
+find it hard to say, &ldquo;Nonfree software is an injustice, a
+social problem, and we must put an end to it.&rdquo; And even if you
+do continue to say those words, your actions will undermine them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The issue here is not whether people should be 
&lt;em&gt;able&lt;/em&gt;
+or &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to install nonfree software; a general-purpose
+system enables and allows users to do whatever they wish.  The issue
+is whether we guide users towards nonfree software.  What they do on
+their own is their responsibility; what we do for them, and what we
+direct them towards, is ours.  We must not direct the
+users towards proprietary software as if it were a solution, because
+proprietary software is the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A ruinous compromise is not just a bad influence on others.  It can
+distort your own values, too, through cognitive dissonance.  If you
+have certain values, but your actions imply other, conflicting values,
+you are likely to change your values or your actions so as to resolve the
+contradiction.  Thus, projects that argue only from practical
+advantages, or direct people toward some nonfree software, nearly
+always shy away from even &lt;em&gt;suggesting&lt;/em&gt; that nonfree software
+is unethical.  For their participants, as well as for the public, they
+reinforce consumer values.  We must reject these compromises if we wish
+to keep our values straight.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to move to free software without compromising the goal
+of freedom, look at &lt;a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources"&gt;the FSF's
+resources area&lt;/a&gt;.  It lists hardware and machine configurations that
+work with free software, &lt;a href="/distros"&gt; totally free GNU/Linux
+distros&lt;/a&gt; to install, and <span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;a 
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class="inserted"><ins><em>packages&lt;/a&gt;</em></ins></span> that
+work in a 100 percent free software environment.  If you want to help the
+community stay on the road to freedom, one important way is to
+publicly uphold citizen values.  When people are discussing what is
+good or bad, or what to do, cite the values of freedom and community
+and argue from them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A road that lets you go faster is <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>no improvement</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>not better</em></ins></span> if it leads to the
+wrong place.  Compromise is essential to achieve an ambitious goal,
+but beware of compromises that lead away from the goal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;hr /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;
+For a similar point in a different area of life,
+see &lt;a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/nudge-is-not-enough-behaviour-change"&gt;";'Nudge'
+is not enough"&lt;/a&gt;.
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+&lt;title&gt;Avoiding Ruinous Compromises
+- GNU Project - Free Software <span class="removed"><del><strong>Foundation 
(FSF)&lt;/title&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
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+&lt;!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/compromise.translist" --&gt;
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+&lt;h2&gt;Avoiding Ruinous Compromises&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;div style="float: right; font-size: 90%; width: 30em; margin: 1em;
+background-color: #ececec; padding: 1em; -moz-border-radius: 1em;
+margin-top: 4em;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&ldquo;Twenty-five years
+ago &lt;a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html"&gt;on September 27, 1983, I
+announced a plan&lt;/a&gt; to create a completely free operating system
+called GNU&mdash;for &lsquo;GNU's Not Unix&rsquo;.  As part of the
+25th anniversary of the GNU system, I have written this article on how
+our community can avoid ruinous compromises.  In addition to avoiding
+such compromises, there are many ways you can &lt;a href="/help/"&gt;help
+GNU&lt;/a&gt; and free software.  One basic way is
+to &lt;a 
href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=4052"&gt;
+join the Free Software Foundation&lt;/a&gt; as an Associate
+Member.&rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&mdash;&lt;b&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;by &lt;strong&gt;Richard Stallman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The free software movement aims for a social
+change: &lt;a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"&gt;to make all software
+free&lt;/a&gt; so that all software users are free and can be part of a
+community of cooperation.  Every nonfree program gives its developer
+unjust power over the users.  Our goal is to put an end to that
+injustice.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The road to freedom
+is &lt;a 
href="http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2008/spring/the-last-mile-is-always-the-hardest/"&gt;
+a long road&lt;/a&gt;.  It will take many steps and many years to reach a
+world in which it is normal for software users to have freedom.  Some
+of these steps are hard, and require sacrifice.  Some of them become easier
+if we make compromises with people that have different goals.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Thus, the &lt;a href="http://www.fsf.org/"&gt;Free Software
+Foundation&lt;/a&gt; makes compromises&mdash;even major ones.  For
+instance, we made compromises in the patent provisions of version 3 of
+the &lt;a href="/licenses/gpl.html"&gt;GNU General Public License&lt;/a&gt; 
(GNU GPL) so
+that major companies would contribute to and distribute GPLv3-covered
+software and thus bring some patents under the effect of these
+provisions.  &lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;img src="/graphics/gplv3-large.png" alt="" style="float: left;" /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/licenses/lgpl.html"&gt;The Lesser GPL&lt;/a&gt;'s 
purpose is a
+compromise: we use it on certain chosen free libraries to permit their
+use in nonfree programs because we think that legally prohibiting
+this would only drive developers to proprietary libraries instead.  We
+accept and install code in GNU programs to make them work together
+with common nonfree programs, and we document and publicize this in
+ways that encourage users of the latter to install the former, but not
+vice versa.  We support specific campaigns we agree with, even when we
+don't fully agree with the groups behind them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But we reject certain compromises even though many others in our
+community are willing to make them.  For instance,
+we &lt;a href="/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html"&gt;
+endorse only the GNU/Linux distributions&lt;/a&gt; that have policies not to
+include nonfree software or lead users to install it.  To endorse
+nonfree distributions would be a &lt;acronym title="ruinous
+(r&#363;'&#601;-n&#601;s) adj. 1. Causing or apt to cause ruin;
+destructive.  2. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or
+decayed."&gt;ruinous&lt;/acronym&gt; compromise.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Compromises are ruinous if they would work against our aims in the
+long term.  That can occur either at the level of ideas or at the level of
+actions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the level of ideas, ruinous compromises are those that reinforce
+the premises we seek to change.  Our goal is a world in which software
+users are free, but as yet most computer users do not even recognize
+freedom as an issue.  They have taken up &ldquo;consumer&rdquo;
+values, which means they judge any program only on practical characteristics
+such as price and convenience.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Dale Carnegie's classic self-help book, &lt;cite&gt;How to Win 
Friends and
+Influence People&lt;/cite&gt;, advises that the most effective way to
+persuade someone to do something is to present arguments that appeal
+to his values.  There are ways we can appeal to the consumer values
+typical in our society.  For instance, free software obtained gratis
+can save the user money.  Many free programs are convenient and
+reliable, too.  Citing those practical benefits has succeeded in
+persuading many users to adopt various free programs, some of which
+are now quite successful.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If getting more people to use some free programs is as far as you
+aim to go, you might decide to keep quiet about the concept of
+freedom, and focus only on the practical advantages that make sense
+in terms of consumer values.  That's what the term &ldquo;open
+source&rdquo; and its associated rhetoric do.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;That approach can get us only part way to the goal of freedom.  People
+who use free software only because it is convenient will stick with it
+only as long as it is convenient.  And they will see no reason not to
+use convenient proprietary programs along with it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The philosophy of open source presupposes and appeals to consumer
+values, and this affirms and reinforces them.  That's why we
+&lt;a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html"&gt;do not support
+open source.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;img src="/graphics/gnulaptop.png" alt="" style="float: right;" /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To establish a free community fully and lastingly, we need to do
+more than get people to use some free software.  We need to spread the
+idea of judging software (and other things) on &ldquo;citizen
+values&rdquo;, based on whether it respects users' freedom and
+community, not just in terms of convenience.  Then people will not
+fall into the trap of a proprietary program baited by an attractive,
+convenient feature.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To promote citizen values, we have to talk about them and show how
+they are the basis of our actions.  We must reject the Dale Carnegie
+compromise that would influence their actions by endorsing their
+consumer values.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is not to say we cannot cite practical advantage at all&mdash;we 
can
+and we do.  It becomes a problem only when the practical advantage steals
+the scene and pushes freedom into the background.  Therefore,
+when we cite the practical advantages of free software, we reiterate
+frequently that those are just &lt;em&gt;additional, secondary&lt;/em&gt; 
reasons
+to prefer it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It's not enough to make our words accord with our ideals; our
+actions have to accord with them too.  So we must also avoid
+compromises that involve doing or legitimizing the things we aim to
+stamp out.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For instance, experience shows that you can attract some users to
+&lt;a href="/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html"&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; if you include some
+nonfree programs.  This could mean a cute nonfree application that
+will catch some user's eye, or a nonfree programming platform such
+as &lt;a href="/philosophy/java-trap.html"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; (formerly) or the
+Flash runtime (still), or a nonfree device driver that enables
+support for certain hardware models.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These compromises are tempting, but they undermine the goal.  If
+you distribute nonfree software, or steer people towards it, you will
+find it hard to say, &ldquo;Nonfree software is an injustice, a
+social problem, and we must put an end to it.&rdquo; And even if you
+do continue to say those words, your actions will undermine them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The issue here is not whether people should be 
&lt;em&gt;able&lt;/em&gt;
+or &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to install nonfree software; a general-purpose
+system enables and allows users to do whatever they wish.  The issue
+is whether we guide users towards nonfree software.  What they do on
+their own is their responsibility; what we do for them, and what we
+direct them towards, is ours.  We must not direct the
+users towards proprietary software as if it were a solution, because
+proprietary software is the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A ruinous compromise is not just a bad influence on others.  It can
+distort your own values, too, through cognitive dissonance.  If you
+have certain values, but your actions imply other, conflicting values,
+you are likely to change your values or your actions so as to resolve the
+contradiction.  Thus, projects that argue only from practical
+advantages, or direct people toward some nonfree software, nearly
+always shy away from even &lt;em&gt;suggesting&lt;/em&gt; that nonfree software
+is unethical.  For their participants, as well as for the public, they
+reinforce consumer values.  We must reject these compromises if we wish
+to keep our values straight.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to move to free software without compromising the goal
+of freedom, look at &lt;a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources"&gt;the FSF's
+resources area&lt;/a&gt;.  It lists hardware and machine configurations that
+work with free software, &lt;a href="/distros"&gt; totally free GNU/Linux
+distros&lt;/a&gt; to install, and <span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;a 
href="http://directory.fsf.org/"&gt;</em></ins></span>
+thousands of free software <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>packages</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>packages&lt;/a&gt;</em></ins></span> that
+work in a 100 percent free software environment.  If you want to help the
+community stay on the road to freedom, one important way is to
+publicly uphold citizen values.  When people are discussing what is
+good or bad, or what to do, cite the values of freedom and community
+and argue from them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A road that lets you go faster is <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>no improvement</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>not better</em></ins></span> if it leads to the
+wrong place.  Compromise is essential to achieve an ambitious goal,
+but beware of compromises that lead away from the goal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;hr /&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;
+For a similar point in a different area of life,
+see &lt;a 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/nudge-is-not-enough-behaviour-change"&gt;";'Nudge'
+is not enough"&lt;/a&gt;.
+&lt;/p&gt;
+
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+
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