[Solar-general] Fwd: [solar.general] ¿qué opinan de esto?

[Diego Saravia]

muy buenoi

2010/8/18 Marcos Germán Guglielmetti <marcos en ovejafm.com>

>
> "Public Software": a serious symptom of the crisis in the Free Software
> Social
> Movement
>
> "Public Software? The so-called Public Software is a political project
> which
> aims to remove the Free Software main feature: the Freedom. It tries to put
> the people in the role of mere "viewing public".
>
> The Free Software Social Movement historically called the participation of
> the
> entire society for the transformation of the surrounding reality, it aimed
> to
> create PRODUCERS of free culture, free software, free computer networks and
> free hardware in order to achieve a freer society . Produced tangible
> results
> as well as GNU/Linux, the Internet Protocol, Wikipedia, Firefox, eMule,
> BitTorrent and many other tools that not only were suitable for all, but
> can
> also be produced / used by anyone.
>
> By removing the idea of working for freedom, some people is trying to
> avoid disturbing the political/economical interests of the various national
> governments when adopting free software because the migration process will
> be
> carried out using partly Proprietary or Open Source Software as for
> instance
> the one that produces Canonical (Ubuntu). So the say "public" and avoid to
> say "free", because the ideas of Free Software Foundation (100% free
> software!) could anoy these political/economical interests.
>
> Thus the Social Movement of Free Software is excluded in its philosophical
> basis and asked to participate only if it does not generate "controversy"
> (http://solar.org.ar/spip.php?rubrique59) and agree to talk about Public
> Software rather than referring to Free Software.
>
> Recently the chief of staff of the Argentine Government, Anibal Fernandez,
> released a video interview
> (http://www.anibalfernandez.com.ar/te-lo-digo-yo/309-video-entrevista.html
> )
> Public speaking and inviting the free software activists to stop using
> the "free" software terminology. There are 70 million dollars at stake "for
> the creation of technology-based firms"
> (http://www.mincyt.gov.ar/index.php?contenido=noti_empretec).
>
>
> A few days later, Martin Olivera, who has served as President of the NGO
> SOLAR
> (Software Libre Argentina), published on his blog
> (http://blog.martinolivera.com.ar/?p=169) an explanation of why Adding to
> the
> Federal Bureau of Public Software "PJ Digital"
> (
> http://www.pjdigital.org/2010/08/09/pjdigital-inicio-el-armado-de-la-mesa-federal-del-software"Public /)
>
> From the Peronism movement they say that "the PJ Digital now opens a space
> for
> public discussion of the software, which is a political discussion that can
> be carried forward on a political level and from a Peronist view but open
> to
> all who want to participate".
>
> Obviously they want to make the adoption of Free Software their partisan
> achievement but not to speak of political freedom because these friends of
> big business, dont want the people's emancipation. In any case, the
> national
> bourgeoisies want "their" working classes to work for them and for the
> State
> taking care of their extraordinary profits, giving to the people a
> "finished"
> software, in many cases with available source code but:
>
> Without the necessary activity for the people to take all the freedoms of
> free
> software?
>
> 0) The freedom to run the program, for any purpose
> 1) The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt to your needs.
> 2) The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
> 3) The freedom to improve the program, and release the improvements to
> others,
> so that the whole community benefits. Access to the source code is a
> precondition for this.
>
> How will free software (bad called "public") get to the people? Will the
> people know something about the 4 basic freedoms?
>
> In the website of the CLAD (Latin American Centre for Development
> Administration) regarding the issue, not even once mention the word freedom
> or liberty
> (http://www.clad.org/reforme/boletin-324/proyecto-software-public-international).
> CLAD is an international project that brings all States benefiting from the
> definition of "Public Software". The project began in Brazil
> (http://www.softwarepublico.gov.br/) and now spread to Argentina and other
> countries.
>
> There is much talk of "Public" but these projects are woven behind the
> public,
> or at least people are called to be "viewing public" rather than producers
> of
> reality: the calls to the vaunted "Federal Bureau of Public Software" was
> not
> done to all the activists of the Social Movement of Free Software: rarely
> summoned some which could be aligned with the National Government of
> Kirchner. The rest were excluded from any prior notice.
>
> It is remarkable that into the NGO SOLAR it had happened as follows: one
> day
> someone asked what it meant "Public Software", days later Aníbal Fernández
> did the video interview published on his blog to leave "Free Software"
> denomination, the NGO SOLAR bureaucracy responds with a critique
> (http://solar.org.ar/spip.php?article784) (calling it an "add") "In this
> context the question arises why a project of far-reaching as Equal Connect
> incorporates proprietary software the laptops of the boys. The very idea
> of "public" is challenged by this action, which goes directly to one of the
> places where teens spend more time to socialize, which ultimately build
> their
> idea of citizenship. "and then the President of the NGO joins the Public
> Software and yet with endless excuses. We already know that the one that
> denominate, dominate (http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=111147).
>
> Yes, the very idea of "public" is questioned, not only by the action of
> distributing computers with proprietary software, but also by the manner in
> which meetings are being held without calling the "public" in general, the
> call is not free.
>
> So: the Open Source accomplished through the assistance of States and
> bureaucratic NGOs to conquer new positions and render the computer struggle
> for emancipation which is the Social Movement of Free Software.
>
> This sad trip is a great example about why the free software philosophy is
> so
> important, why it is so important to defend against the confusion of some
> politicians of different states defending oppressors and an unjust
> capitalist
> system in which it is "necessary" to subtract the people's freedom so a
> wealthy social class can perpetuate in power.
>
> Public Software = Gattopardo: Change everything so that nothing changes.
>
> The Social Movement of Free Software has a fundamental task for the
> emancipation of society: to build horizontal organizations, free and
> independent from states and oppressive business that want to use "Free
> Software" or "Public Software" only to generate large profits for the
> capitalists and juicy win elections while population is intended to play
> the "Public Viewer."
>
>
> Source:
> http://lunar.org.ar/?q=node/179
> http://softwarelibre.org.ar/?q=node/125
> http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2010/08/745852.php
>



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