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Ethics and free softwares

Thomas Giraud Elgan Rolland Simon Chabot

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December 10, 2013

Thomas Giraud, Elgan Rolland, Simon Chabot Ethics and free softwares

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1 protectivism & agressivity

2 why free softwares make sense

3 free softwares for . . .


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Free & ProprietaryStruggle against opennessStruggle against copyStruggle against illegal sharing

Free

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Tounderstand the concept, you should think of free as infree speech, not as in free beer.

Richard Stallman


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0 The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.

1 The freedom to study how the program works, and change itso it does your computing as you wish.

2 The freedom to redistribute copies.

3 The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions toothers.

Image from http://www.gnu.org/


http://www.gnu.org/

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Proprietary

Mostly closed source

Limited use & distribution

Subjugation of the user & the developer


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Data format

Companies of proprietary softwares make their data formatsevolve to keep them under control

Develop software adapted to their own formats

Microsoft: Open Document XML / OASIS: OpenDocument


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DRM & Licences

Keys bound to the material

May favorize some devices and media players, more thanothers


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Copy Control

Copy Control designed to forbid copies on your computer(even in legal cases)

Sony’s Rootkit installed itself on your computer (and harmedit)


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Piracy

Disproportion of legal pursuits

Technics used to track illegal downloaders


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Legislations

Lobbying

Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement

SOPA


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Reasons for producing free softwareSharing and free software

Desire to do good


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Correct deficiencies or limitations of existing tools


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Enlist the help of others


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Desire to learn


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The prosperity through sharing

Social cohesion


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youthe societythe democracy

(a) intensive farming (b) organic farming

1(a) public domain, taken by Charles O’Rear. 1(b), CC-BY-SA taken by danitic.


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The code is law

Lawrence Lessig


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A free software is gratis when it has been paid

Francois Elie


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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion andexpression; this right includes freedom to hold opinionswithout interference and to seek, receive and impartinformation and ideas through any media and regardlessof frontiers.

Art. 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights


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the choice is yours !kiitos.


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