{"id":373,"date":"2013-05-22T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.prunk.si\/?p=373"},"modified":"2013-10-07T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:02:23","slug":"why-should-you-use-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Why is Free Software good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my earlier blog post I wrote about the difference between proprietary and <a title=\"FSF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\" target=\"_blank\">Free Software<\/a> (free as in freedom, not free as a free beer) and use of proprietary software on (mobile) devices. Here I would like to expose more links for you to read regarding this topic :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard M. Stallman&#8217;s article about &#8220;<a title=\"Why software Should Not Have Owners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\" target=\"_blank\">What is Free software ?<\/a>&#8221; where he describes 4 essential software freedoms and the users freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.<\/li>\n<li>Bradley M. Kuhn&#8217;s article about <a title=\"Bradley M Kuhn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ebb.org\/bkuhn\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/have-to-use.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Have to is a relative phrase !&#8221;<\/a> where he describes the common phrase that people use to justify their use for proprietary software.<\/li>\n<li>Richard M. Stallman&#8217;s article about &#8220;<a title=\"Free Software Vs. Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-software-for-freedom.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Free Software is better than Open Source<\/a>&#8221; where he describes why Free Software movement and the Open Source movement are like two political camps within the free software community.<\/li>\n<li>Richard M. Stallman&#8217;s article about &#8220;<a title=\"Free Software in Schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/education\/edu-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why schools should exclusively use free software<\/a>&#8221; where he describes why Free software permits students to learn how software works.<\/li>\n<li>Richard M Stallman&#8217;s article about &#8220;<a title=\"Richard Stallman about Free Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/opinion\/2013\/09\/why-free-software-is-more-important-now-than-ever-before\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Free Software is more important now than ever before<\/a>&#8221; in Wired Magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Jon &#8220;maddog&#8221; Hall&#8217;s video lecture about &#8220;<a title=\"Jon Hall's Free Software in Education\" href=\"http:\/\/medialab-prado.es\/article\/conferencia_de_jon_maddog_hall\" target=\"_blank\">Free Software in Education<\/a>&#8221; from a conference in Madrid.<\/li>\n<li>Michal Maslowski&#8217;s article about &#8220;<a title=\"Free Software Licenses\" href=\"http:\/\/Free Softwarehttp:\/\/b.mtjm.eu\/free-software-licenses-freedom.htmlfficient condition for software freedom&quot;\" target=\"_blank\">Free Software licenses are not a sufficient condition for software freedom&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jason Self&#8217;s article about &#8220;<a title=\"How I learned about free software\" href=\"http:\/\/jxself.org\/how-i-learned.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">How he learned about Free Software<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my earlier blog post I wrote about the difference between proprietary and Free Software (free as in freedom, not free as a free beer) and use of proprietary software on (mobile) devices. 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