muy buenoi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/18 Marcos Germán Guglielmetti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcos@ovejafm.com">marcos@ovejafm.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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"Public Software": a serious symptom of the crisis in the Free Software Social<br>
Movement<br>
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"Public Software? The so-called Public Software is a political project which<br>
aims to remove the Free Software main feature: the Freedom. It tries to put<br>
the people in the role of mere "viewing public".<br>
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The Free Software Social Movement historically called the participation of the<br>
entire society for the transformation of the surrounding reality, it aimed to<br>
create PRODUCERS of free culture, free software, free computer networks and<br>
free hardware in order to achieve a freer society . Produced tangible results<br>
as well as GNU/Linux, the Internet Protocol, Wikipedia, Firefox, eMule,<br>
BitTorrent and many other tools that not only were suitable for all, but can<br>
also be produced / used by anyone.<br>
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By removing the idea of working for freedom, some people is trying to<br>
avoid disturbing the political/economical interests of the various national<br>
governments when adopting free software because the migration process will be<br>
carried out using partly Proprietary or Open Source Software as for instance<br>
the one that produces Canonical (Ubuntu). So the say "public" and avoid to<br>
say "free", because the ideas of Free Software Foundation (100% free<br>
software!) could anoy these political/economical interests.<br>
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Thus the Social Movement of Free Software is excluded in its philosophical<br>
basis and asked to participate only if it does not generate "controversy"<br>
(<a href="http://solar.org.ar/spip.php?rubrique59" target="_blank">http://solar.org.ar/spip.php?rubrique59</a>) and agree to talk about Public<br>
Software rather than referring to Free Software.<br>
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Recently the chief of staff of the Argentine Government, Anibal Fernandez,<br>
released a video interview<br>
(<a href="http://www.anibalfernandez.com.ar/te-lo-digo-yo/309-video-entrevista.html" target="_blank">http://www.anibalfernandez.com.ar/te-lo-digo-yo/309-video-entrevista.html</a>)<br>
Public speaking and inviting the free software activists to stop using<br>
the "free" software terminology. There are 70 million dollars at stake "for<br>
the creation of technology-based firms"<br>
(<a href="http://www.mincyt.gov.ar/index.php?contenido=noti_empretec" target="_blank">http://www.mincyt.gov.ar/index.php?contenido=noti_empretec</a>).<br>
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A few days later, Martin Olivera, who has served as President of the NGO SOLAR<br>
(Software Libre Argentina), published on his blog<br>
(<a href="http://blog.martinolivera.com.ar/?p=169" target="_blank">http://blog.martinolivera.com.ar/?p=169</a>) an explanation of why Adding to the<br>
Federal Bureau of Public Software "PJ Digital"<br>
(<a href="http://www.pjdigital.org/2010/08/09/pjdigital-inicio-el-armado-de-la-mesa-federal-del-software" target="_blank">http://www.pjdigital.org/2010/08/09/pjdigital-inicio-el-armado-de-la-mesa-federal-del-software</a> "Public /)<br>
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