Re: question for candidates

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

 On 06/01/2010 11:03 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Here is a question for the candidates.
>
> To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to
> develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and
> demand the freedom that free software offers them.  We need to advance
> at the practical level and at the philosophical level.
>
> GNOME is good free software, and thus contributes at the practical
> level.  How will candidates use the user community's awareness of
> GNOME to contribute to educating the communityn about freedom?
By just talking about it more.
While we tend to focus on freedom 1 - the freedom to study how the 
program works and change it to do what you wish, freedom 2 - the freedom 
to help your friends by giving them a copy of your favorite piece of 
software is the one I feel is actually most important for the big masses 
out there and one we should try to highlight more.
We should make sure to mention these things in a straight forward way on 
our website and in our outreach materials.
- Andreas