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[Therese Godefroy]

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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
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+<title>Free Software and Sustainable Development</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<h2>Free Software and Sustainable Development</h2>
+
+<p>by <strong>Richard Stallman</strong></p>
+
+<p><em>First published on <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060721162054/http://www.insnet.org/ins_headlines.rxml?cust=212&id=967";>
+insnet.org</a> in 2005.</em></p>
+
+<p>Many organizations that aim to promote development by spreading the
+use of computers make a fundamental mistake: they promote the use of
+proprietary (nonfree) software.  Using proprietary software is not
+development; it makes society dependent, not strong.</p>
+
+<p>Proprietary software such as MS Windows and the Macintosh system is
+distributed in a scheme to keep the users divided and helpless.  The
+users are divided because each user is forbidden to share the program
+with anyone else; they are helpless because the &ldquo;plans&rdquo; of the
+software, the source code, are secret.  Users can't feasibly change
+the program, or even verify that it does what the developer says (and
+not anything else that the developer didn't say).</p>
+
+<p>The way to avoid being divided and helpless is to use free software.
+Free software respects users' freedom.  Specifically, free softare
+means users have four essential freedoms: they are free to run the
+software, free to study its source code and change it to do what they
+want, free to redistribute copies, and free to publish modified
+versions.  Free software is part of human knowledge.</p>
+
+<p>Increasing the use of free software makes society more capable.  Free
+software can be freely used, understood, maintained and adapted by
+local people anywhere in the world.  This is true development.</p>
+
+<p>By contrast, increasing use of proprietary software means deepening
+society's dependency on a few corporations in rich countries.
+Proprietary software is secret technology, which local people are
+forbidden to understand, forbidden to maintain, forbidden to adapt,
+and forbidden to extend.  It can be used only under the direct control
+of a single corporation, or else illegally.  Dependence on proprietary
+software is not development, it is electronic colonization.</p>
+
+<p>For more information on free software and the popular GNU/Linux
+operating system, see www.gnu.org.</p>
+
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+
+<p>Copyright 2005 Richard Stallman</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2017/04/02 08:23:25 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
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