{"id":32402,"date":"2014-07-14T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/you-may-have-heard-of-free-software-before\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:41:46","slug":"you-may-have-heard-of-free-software-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/you-may-have-heard-of-free-software-before\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo; You may have heard of &quot;free&rdquo; software before. One common belief is that it\u2019s free of cost. The majority of free software is available without cost, but &ldquo;free&rdquo; really refers to freedom not price. Specifically, the freedom to run, study, modify and distribute the software.<\/p>\n<p>If you have all of these freedoms, then the program is free software. If not then the program is proprietary. Proprietary software is a dark alley. Only a select few can legally know the ins and outs of the program. If you can\u2019t run the program for any purpose that you want, if you can\u2019t study and modify the program so that it does (or doesn\u2019t do) whatever you want, then who is your computer really taking orders from? Certainly not you.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the license attached to proprietary software often says that you\u2019re forbidden to share copies with anyone else. If you can\u2019t legally share copies with your friends, what what does that say if you\u2019re forced to choose between obeying the license of the software or being a good friend and making a copy? \u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.fsf.org\/nosvn\/stickers\/fsf.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>October 4th, 1985 &#8211; The Free Software Foundation is founded by Richard Stallman in Massachusetts, an organization dedicated to promoting the creation of software without the restrictions of copyright and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the tenants of the FSF extend beyond Stallman\u2019s vision and have contributed to a great deal of projects which many users and institutions take advantage of and contribute towards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/FreeSoftwareAndGNU\" title=\"Free Software And GNU\">Free Software And GNU<\/a><\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/internetarchive.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">internetarchive<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo; You may have heard of &quot;free&rdquo; software before. One common belief is that it\u2019s free of cost. The majority of free software is available without cost, but &ldquo;free&rdquo; really refers to freedom not price. Specifically, the freedom to run, study, modify and distribute the software. If you have all of these freedoms, then the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8qC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}