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I'm Richard Stallman.

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25 years ago [in 1983]

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I founded the 
Free Software movement.

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Free Software

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is software that respects
users' freedom

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and the social solidarity
of their community.

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Nonfree programs 
are proprietary software.

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That is,

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they take away users' freedom

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keeping them
divided and helpless.

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Divided

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because they are forbidden 
from sharing the program

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and helpless

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because users don't have the
source code of the program.

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That is,

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they cannot change it, 
they cannot even find out

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what the program 
is really doing,

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and it can do very bad things.

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Free Software

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means that the user has
4 essential freedoms:

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Freedom 0

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is the freedom to run the 
program for any purpose.

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Freedom 1

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is the freedom to study 
the source code of the program

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and change it 
to make it do what you wish.

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Freedom 2

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is the freedom 
to help your neighbor;

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that is,

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the freedom 
to make and distribute

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exact copies of the program 
whenever you want.

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And freedom 3

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is the freedom to 
contribute to your community;

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that is,

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the freedom to make 
and distribute copies

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of your modified versions 
of the program.

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With these four freedoms
a program is Free Software

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because the social system for 
its use and distribution

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is an ethical system that 
respects everyone's  freedom

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and the freedom 
of the community of users.

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Software must be Free because
we all deserve freedom,

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we all deserve

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to be allowed to  participate 
in a free community.

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Therefore,

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schools should teach 
only Free Software.

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There are four reasons 
why this is so.

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The most shallow reason 
is to save money.

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Schools don't have 
enough money,

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so they shouldn't 
waste their money

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paying for permission to use 
proprietary software.

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This is an obvious reason,

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but some proprietary software 
companies

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usually eliminate this 
shallow reason

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by donating copies 
of their proprietary programs

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to the schools at no charge 
or at a small price.

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The reason why they do that 
is to get students addicted.

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It's a malicious plan.

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It's a plan to use schools
as instruments to impose

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a permanent dependence 
on students.

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If a school teaches how to use 
a proprietary program,

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the student will be dependent 
on that program,

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and after he graduates

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he will have to pay 
to use that program.

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He will probably 
work for a company

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that does not receive copies 
of the program free of charge.

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Therefore,

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proprietary software 
developers use schools

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to impose permanent dependence 
on the whole society.

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Schools must refuse

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to participate 
in such a malicious plan

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because schools have a 
social mission,

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which is to educate the next 
generation to be good citizens

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of a capable, strong, 
independent, cooperating and

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free society.

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This can only be achieved 
by teaching Free Software.

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Schools must eliminate,
delete proprietary software

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and install Free Software.

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But there is  a deeper reason:

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to form good programmers,

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because in order to learn
good programming skills

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students need to read lots of 
code and write lots of code.

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To learn to write good code 
for big programs

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students need to write 
small changes

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in the code of big programs.

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All this is possible 
only with Free Software.

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Only Free Software

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allows education 
in information technology.

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But there is still 
a deeper reason:

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to teach good citizenship,

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because schools have the 
mission to teach

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not only facts and technical 
skills, but above all

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the spirit of good will, 
the habit of helping others.

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Therefore, each class 
should have this rule:

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"students, if you 
bring a program to the class,

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you can't keep it for yourself,

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you must share it 
with the rest of the class."

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The school should practice 
what it preaches,

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it should introduce only 
Free Software in the classroom.

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All schools should migrate to 
Free Software

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and teach exclusively 
Free Software

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because each school should 
participate

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in leading society towards
freedom and social solidarity.

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Thank you.