An appeal from Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist and author.

[kwong]

An appeal from Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist and author.

** Read the complete appeal online: http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2009/mako/

Free software is not really about software in this fundamental sense;
it's about bringing freedom to users through software.

In free software's incredible success over the last two decades, many
people have lost sight of this simple fact.

We have created an incredible array of applications, vibrant
communities and powerful licenses -- but these are all how we give
users freedom. They are not freedom itself. They are not what we were
trying to achieve.

They are our instruments, not our goal.

As more and more users' primary computers become mobile phones and new
types of network services make up most of many users' interaction with
computers, the free software movement's goal of bringing freedom to
computer users will need to involve new software and new forms of
advocacy.

A strong free software movement focused on the principled issues of
software freedom -- and a strong FSF in particular -- will determine
what freedoms the next generation of computer users enjoy.

At stake is no less than the next generation's autonomy.

If you are not an FSF associate member, now is the time to become one
with a $10 monthly contribution ($5 students).

[Lavande]

几天不看英语了，看了眼疼……不翻译一下么……
LZ不厚道

[szyzln]

放狗翻译了一下，MS是交钱加入一个组织。

[tenzu]

说白了就是交钱加入某免费软件的组织（也没提开源），10刀，学生半价

[daf3707]

以后X语新闻请附一句中文精确制导标题