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<td>Why freeing Windows 7 opens doors</td>
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<td>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:05:45 -0500</td>
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<td>Greg Farough, FSF <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:info@fsf.org"><info@fsf.org></a></td>
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<td>Greg Farough, FSF <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:info@fsf.org"><info@fsf.org></a></td>
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<td>Gianni Andreose <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:andgi@autistici.org"><andgi@autistici.org></a></td>
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<p>Since its launch on January
24th, we've had an
overwhelming amount of
support in <a
href="https://www.fsf.org/windows/upcycle-windows-7"
moz-do-not-send="true">our
call to "upcycle" Windows 7</a>.
Truthfully, the signature
count flew far faster than we
ever expected it to, even
despite our
conservative, if aptly
numbered, goal of 7,777
signatures. (We ended the
petition with a total of
13,635 signatures!) We have
seen the campaign called
quixotic and even "completely
delusional,"
but in every case, people have
recognized the "<a
href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">pragmatic
idealism</a>"
that is at the core of the
FSF's message. Even where this
campaign has
been attacked, it's
nevertheless been understood
that the FSF really
does want <em>all software</em>
to be free software. We <a
href="https://www.gnu.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">recommend</a>
every
fully free operating system
that we are aware of, and want
to be able
to expand that list to include
<em>every</em> operating
system. So long as
any remain proprietary, we
will always work to free them.</p>
<p>Over the last few weeks, we
have been carefully watching
the press
coverage, and are glad to see
the message of software
freedom popping
up in so many places at once.
We received a lot of support,
and have
responded to dozens of
comments expressing support,
concern, and even
outrage over why the FSF would
think that upcycling Windows 7
was a
good idea, and why it was
something we would want to
demand.</p>
<p>Microsoft can free Windows.
They already have all of the
legal rights
necessary or the leverage to
obtain them. Whether they
choose to do
so or not is up to them. In
the past weeks, we've given
them the
message that thousands of
people around the world want
Windows to be
freed. Next, we'll give them
the <em>medium</em>.</p>
<p>This afternoon we will be
mailing an upcycled hard drive
along with
the signatures to Microsoft's
corporate offices. It's as
easy as
copying the source code,
giving it a license notice,
and mailing it
back to us. As the author of
the <a
href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">most
popular free software
license</a> in the world,
we're ready to give them all
of the help we
can. All they have to do is
ask.</p>
<p>We want them to show exactly
how much love they have for
the "open
source" software they mention
in in their advertising. If
they really
do love free software -- and
we're willing to give them the
benefit of
the doubt -- they have the
opportunity to show it to the
world. We
hope they're not just
capitalizing on the free
software development
model in the most superficial
and exploitative way possible:
by using
it as a marketing tool to fool
us into thinking that they
care about
our freedom.</p>
<p>Together, we've stood up for
our principles. They can
reject us, or
ignore us, but what they
cannot do is stop us. We'll go
on
campaigning, until all of us
are free.</p>
<p>Happy hacking,</p>
<p>Greg Farough<br>
Campaigns Manager</p>
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