[pp.int.general] The Flaw in the Estonian ID Card
Richard Stallman
rms at gnu.org
Fri Nov 1 13:34:35 CET 2013
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
Personally I have
opted to use an open source tool named Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG),
Thanks for recommending the GNU Privacy Guard,
but would you please refer to it as free/libre software
rather than as "open source"? "Free/libre software"
raises the issue in terms of freedom, while "open source"
intentionally avoids it.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source. See also http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for
Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
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