promote free software

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free culture advocate , always in a way that does not prevent the creators of cultural products and works they can get fruits of their labor and even live it if you wish, we would not be consistent if not promoviésemos the widespread use of free software, one that can be copied, used, used, modified, improved and distributed at will.

Do not think that this software must necessarily be free or that the companies that develop exclusive license has to be worse. The reasons to promote free software are basically that stimulates development more with the free Community trade that is a major cost savings for individuals, businesses, governments and schools unencumbered by paying private licenses and thus all citizens thanks to the achievements that this provides benefits.

Proposals to promote free software

  • Lead by example : used in home and try using free software programs developed at work

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    If you have wood this, develop all your programs and codes of web pages and applications with free licenses.

  • Intégrate as user communities exhibition and exchange of free software such as GitHub, BitBucket or SourceForge, and make your contributions if you are a developer.

  • Make childcare in your conversations out loud or in your publications internet and social networking, blogs and media.

  • presents and supports citizens’ political initiatives , as individuals or in association, free software implementation in the administration and in schools. Change.org, especially, and Oiga.me are widely used platforms, and there are legal ways to make a request to rectories, municipalities, county councils and regional governments, and you can even dip into the right to petition Congress referred in the Constitution and expanded in an organic law, and to the European Parliament for asking, that it is not, and there is always time lowest point

  • Rate to political parties including the use of free software in their electoral programs or attempts to push that fit your political ideology or those who sympathize more to include it. To our knowledge, the Izquierda Unida, we, UPyD, EQUO, the Animalista Party, Pirate Party and Socialist Party X consider this implementation in their programs today in Spain. However, and this election bid, that one blanket to his head bundle and melts a political party for this purpose it may be a bit excessive

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    Encourage others to also do this.

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promote free software

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There may be programs with attractive proprietary license you would like to use, but surely you would not be as attractive as those you develop to your liking and according to your needs or those of your community if you know nibble code. It may not have few people and politicians do not listen to you, but if you claim to implant free software becomes a clamor to add multitude of voices like yours and mine, will be hard to ignore by many pressure in the opposite direction carrying large software companies. In fact, not a matter of being one of ordinary soldiers who die in battle against technological giants, shouting “Long live the free software revolution!” Optimism is not so crazy, because we know the software Free and saves the European economy 450,000 million each year and there are some regions and a few Spanish universities committed in favor of it. For other software is possible

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