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Re: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation)
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation) |
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Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:44:22 -0500 |
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> We have infrastructure on non-free systems (github for one),
Just to help clear up a widespread confusion, the distinction between
free and nonfree is defined for software packages. It is not defined
for services. Since github is a service, not a software package, it
is misleading to describe it as "free" or "nonfree".
The reason behind this is that the moral issues of how a service
treats users are much more complex than those of how a software
package treats its users. With a software package, if it is free,
users can collaborate to change itt in any way. By contrast, it is
never possible for the users of a service to modify that service.
We know of various ways a service can treat users unjustly -- we call
them "dis-services". But we don't have a complete list of them.
We do have a list of them specifically for repo sites.
See https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
for evaluations of several.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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