<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/4 Chris Were <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjwere@gmail.com">cjwere@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The same reason people build non-free cars, sell non-free food, and<br>
wear non-free clothes Paolo. Its my job... :)<br>
<br>
And I know its a heated argument out there but i don't think its<br>
GNU/linux, its just linux.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">chris<br>
</font><div></div></blockquote><div><br>I am sorry for you, but GNU/linux is the operating system, linux is only a kernel, i think to start to write a book about kernel, microkernel, who partecipate to the develop, where, why and who is taking advantages with the old microkernels....<br>
<br>It will be a job that i want to publish under the GNU Free Documentation License.<br><br>To develop and build non free cars, sell non free food and wear non free clothes is not good and this create only division between people and restriction of their freedom.<br>
<br>So to develop non free software is not a good thing.<br><br>I am happy that you made the example of food, why i listened years ago Richard Matthew Stallman speaking about food and he said that any is free to do its own cacke, adding or removing things don't like us.<br>
<br>For example to prepare an Apple Pie, any person is free to add more ingredients to offer to more people. ;-)<br><br>For example "The Pastiera Napoletana" is made with ricotta and candied
fruit, but no one forbids us to add the example of pieces of chocolate,
this would be impossible if the recipe was made with a CopyRight, this
has the same and the same effect on non free software, because you can
not in any way modify :-(<br><br>And this is not good for a community, this is not good for nobody, to do money with free software: "watch RedHat" that has got a little of Ethic, why it sold itself to microsoft, when decided to introduce KVM.<br>
<br>I don't know if you are able to read Italian Language: but if you are able i invite you to read: <a href="http://paolodelbene.pbworks.com/hacking">http://paolodelbene.pbworks.com/hacking</a> and <br><a href="http://paolodelbene.pbworks.com/FrontPage">http://paolodelbene.pbworks.com/FrontPage</a><br>
</div></div><br>Society and sharing with neighbour is more important of money, why you are building walls which divide people, you don't help people to share and to learn how to use a software, how to modify.... you are inviting people only to do drug and drop, copy, paste, cut.<br>
<br>People with non free software must to pray "plug&pray" that non free software works fine.<br><br>But there are other example more importants such as: time to develop a software, high costs, and the ability to develop a non free software entirely on their own, which is very difficult.<br>
<br>So is more easy to partecipate to the develop of a free software having the possibility to access to the source code, why people import their knowledge, and so any user is free to partecipate, there are not restrictions about software, why the software which they are developping is free software, costs are more less low, and any has got the FREEDOM to use as any want, to distribute the software, to do changes, to modify, to do manuals, guides under the GNU Free Documentation License, to sell cd's with a good service of assistance.<br>
<br>This is the difference between a non free software (the users have not any access to the source code) and free software (full access to the source code), to grant Freedom to any user, things that non free software can not to do.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.gnu.org">http://www.gnu.org</a><br><br><h2>What is GNU?</h2>
<p>The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete
Unix-like operating system which
is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>: the GNU
system.</p>
<img src="http://www.gnu.org/graphics/heckert_gnu.small.png" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="">
<p>GNU's kernel isn't finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux.
The combination of GNU and Linux is the <b>GNU/Linux operating system</b>,
now used by millions.</p>
<p>Sometimes this combination is incorrectly
called <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">Linux</a>. There are many
variants or “distributions” of GNU/Linux. </p>
<img src="http://www.gnu.org/graphics/Gnewsenselogo.png" style="margin: 10px; float: right;" alt="">
<p><span class="highlight">We recommend
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">GNU/Linux
distributions</a> that are 100% free software; in other words,
entirely freedom-respecting</span>.</p>
<p>The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's
Not Unix!”; it is pronounced <em>g-noo</em>, as one syllable with
no vowel sound between the <em>g</em> and the <em>n</em>.</p>
<h2>What is Free Software?</h2>
<p>“<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free software</a>”
is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you
should think of “free” as in “free speech”,
not as in “free beer”.</p>
<p>Free software is a matter of the users' <span class="highlight">freedom to run, copy,
distribute, study, change and improve</span> the software. More precisely,
it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:</p>
<ul><li>The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).</li><li>The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs
(freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.</li><li>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
(freedom 2).</li><li>The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
to the public, so that the whole community benefits
(freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.</li></ul><br><p>
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<br><br>invite to watch: <br><br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a><br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html</a><br>
<br>about Free Beer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_beer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_beer</a><br>about Free Coke <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)</a><br>
about Free Car <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OScar_(open_source_car)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OScar_(open_source_car)</a><br><br>if you want Free Wear i can sell you as you want for example T-shirts of <a href="http://fsf.org">fsf.org</a>, <a href="http://ninux.org">ninux.org</a> and many others.<br>
<br>you must only to order and then you have them, so as you can see is not true that there are not Free drinks, Cars and Wear.<br><br><br>a minimum of 10 T-shirts and payment with transfer banking without paypal, i don't use it why is a non free method of payment.<br>
<br>happy hacking<br><br>Paolo <br><br>