The Free Software Foundation turned 30; their achievements, which seem invisible, are more important than you think. // Photo:Xavs _
Throughout the world there are software built into the objects we use, from the car to the refrigerator; Using this mathematical genius which translates into functional applications in our daily life it may be limited by companies. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) fights so this is not so and there is free software; This battle is inexhaustible
A tangible example is in the car.. Through the existing software on a current car, the manufacturer may limit access to the same functions and prevent anyone – preferably mechanical, for example – make a repair, so the customer should necessarily go to the company to resolve a problem.
Thanks to the work of organizations such as the FSF brands should allow access to the software and thus provide flexibility the vehicle owner.
In the words of Richard Stallman, founder of the FSF, the software ‘owner’ is controlled by a company, and free software user is controlled .
For the sake of freedom we owe much to free software
The free software is that, once obtained – usually distributed online – You can use, copy, modify, improve circulation and keep so others can do the same ring with him.
“A well-known case is that of Volkswagen. The FSF fought software for cars could review and won the case … After EU environmental agency decided that the part that had to do with emissions could not be free software, He allegedly to prevent people do trap. recently it came to light that Volkswagen was cheating this year. If the software had been free people had realized long before “ says the director of technology IPOs. Open Intelligence, Adolfo de Unanue
Besides the cars The work of the FSF has allowed the EU advance the unlocked cell to use the device with any operator instead of it comes ‘tied’ to the company that the product was purchased.
Another contribution of the FSF surrounds Apple. Through the campaign ‘Defective by design’ (defective from design) – that the FSF used to combat digital rights management or DRM – a positive impact he had and in 2009 company removed the restriction of the music purchased in iTunes and limited the number of devices where you could play a song.
The DRM is built into the technology that we consume rules and limit the way we use the devices for which we pay. According to this site Defective by Design, Apple is one of the biggest promoters of the use of DRM because their devices are blocked to run only as dictated by the company.
30 years of programming … and litigate
Founded on October 4, 1985, the Free Software Foundation is a composite organization no just for computer programmers and allied subject people; here also involved lawyers, who contribute to get it modify legal instruments that limit or affect the use of free software
<. p> On Saturday October 3rd enthusiastic collaborators and the work of the FSF – non-profit organization and is financed almost entirely through donations – held a celebration in eight countries celebrate the 30th anniversary of the organization. In Mexico the party came to Sinaloa and Mexico City.
In the beginning the members of the FSF created an operating system called GNU as an example of what can be done with free software; currently work in programming is not greater than that done in the courts to fight for digital rights and complete the ideal that the software “can not patent” , as mentioned in Unánue because it is a mathematical concept
The DF event of Unánue used a Mac, not without clarifying that its native software was removed to be completely free and commune with the ideals ‘anti Apple’ FSF. // Photo:Xavs _
Jesus Lugo, an ethical hacker ‘whitehat’ (white hat) that lies in Sinaloa is part of the organization main event to be held at Spiral Media, located in Los Mochis. Lugo walked to the free software from very young and today participates in various projects without earning for it.
Lugo explained that one of the tasks of the FSF is keep alive the ‘copyleft’, that contrary to ‘copyright’ (copyright) is who retain the rights to create software but not limited to others for resume this creation, improve it and redistribute it. What it is avoided by using copyleft is someone to take the program, you do private and avoid circulate freely.
So The FSF continues to work so that more people understand the importance of open software. It is not an easy task; most users leave Facebook to use a free and social network ‘unknown’, called Diaspora , although the benefits in terms Freedom would be many not have a business knowing you better than you know yourself, to start
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