{"id":165,"date":"2008-10-10T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-10-10T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:37:23","slug":"the-goal-is-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/10\/the-goal-is-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"the goal is freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud of Ubuntu, but I&#8217;m always a little sad when I see news items like <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20081009-wikipedia-adopts-ubuntu-for-its-server-infrastructure.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to see everyone who contributes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wri.org\/\">World Resource Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Conservation International Foundation<\/a> to start giving entirely to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeacefund.org\/\">Greenpeace Fund<\/a>.  They&#8217;re all doing fantastic work and doing it in slightly different ways.  Changing allocation between these organizations doesn&#8217;t have any real benefit.<\/p>\n<p>I want to see the news of everyone moving their money out of Exxon and General Motors and putting it into the things linked above or anything like them.  Then big stuff starts happening; multinationals have less to work with and environmental groups have more.  That&#8217;s a win.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations moving from Free Software to Free Software is a distraction.  There is no net gain; there is no more freedom; there are no more users and no more chances to create new Free Software developers.  It is news when an organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/01\/30\/french_open\/\">moves from proprietary software to Free<\/a>.  That&#8217;s important, and we should stay focused on that goal.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud of Ubuntu, but I&#8217;m always a little sad when I see news items like this. I don&#8217;t want to see everyone who contributes to the World Resource Institute and the Conservation International Foundation to start giving entirely to the Greenpeace Fund. They&#8217;re all doing fantastic work and doing it in slightly different ways. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}