Group: LibrePlanet Rapid Responders/Example answers
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Here is a list of example answers to give you an idea of what to say. Please do not use these examples verbatim anywhere; please use your own words. These answers here are for reference. If you need further ideas, please look at the Philosophy of the GNU Project.
Explaining Free Software
- Free software is software that you're free to use however you want, understand, modify, and redistribute. These freedoms create conditions such that *we* control the software we use, rather than big companies using it to control *us*. Software freedom also provides a basis for collaboration (since everyone is free to build on each others work) which sometimes happens at an incredible scale. Working together, free software developers have built a entire operating system (GNU/Linux) that's used by millions of individuals, organizations, and for-profit companies.
- "Oh, I don't use that software for ethical reasons." "Huh? ... ethics? software?" "Yeah, I use free software, software that's free as in freedom. Software that you're allowed to use for whatever you want, modify, study and share. You know how when you install Microsoft Office, before you can use it, you have to click the 'I Agree' button in response to all that legal text that no one every reads, but everyone knows involves signing away their first born children? Well, free software is the opposite of that." etc.
