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Ethics and free softwares
Thomas Giraud Elgan Rolland Simon Chabot
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December 10, 2013
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Thomas Giraud, Elgan Rolland, Simon Chabot Ethics and free softwares
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Free & ProprietaryStruggle against opennessStruggle against copyStruggle against illegal sharing
Free
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Tounderstand the concept, you should think of free as infree speech, not as in free beer.
Richard Stallman
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0 The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
1 The freedom to study how the program works, and change itso it does your computing as you wish.
2 The freedom to redistribute copies.
3 The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions toothers.
Image from http://www.gnu.org/
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Proprietary
Mostly closed source
Limited use & distribution
Subjugation of the user & the developer
Thomas Giraud, Elgan Rolland, Simon Chabot Ethics and free softwares
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Data format
Companies of proprietary softwares make their data formatsevolve to keep them under control
Develop software adapted to their own formats
Microsoft: Open Document XML / OASIS: OpenDocument
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DRM & Licences
Keys bound to the material
May favorize some devices and media players, more thanothers
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Copy Control
Copy Control designed to forbid copies on your computer(even in legal cases)
Sony’s Rootkit installed itself on your computer (and harmedit)
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Piracy
Disproportion of legal pursuits
Technics used to track illegal downloaders
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Legislations
Lobbying
Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement
SOPA
Thomas Giraud, Elgan Rolland, Simon Chabot Ethics and free softwares
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Reasons for producing free softwareSharing and free software
Desire to do good
Thomas Giraud, Elgan Rolland, Simon Chabot Ethics and free softwares
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Reasons for producing free softwareSharing and free software
Correct deficiencies or limitations of existing tools
Thomas Giraud, Elgan Rolland, Simon Chabot Ethics and free softwares
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Enlist the help of others
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Desire to learn
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The prosperity through sharing
Social cohesion
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(a) intensive farming (b) organic farming
1(a) public domain, taken by Charles O’Rear. 1(b), CC-BY-SA taken by danitic.
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The code is law
Lawrence Lessig
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A free software is gratis when it has been paid
Francois Elie
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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion andexpression; this right includes freedom to hold opinionswithout interference and to seek, receive and impartinformation and ideas through any media and regardlessof frontiers.
Art. 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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the choice is yours !kiitos.
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the choice is yours !kiitos.
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