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HYDERABAD, FEB. 10. The atmosphere in the auditorium smacked of revolution. A revolution that aimed at freedom. In the words of the 500-odd youngsters who gathered at the Hari Hara Kala Bhavan on Wednesday, it was a movement for freedom, a movement against monopoly over knowledge. Leading them was the man who started it all. Richard Stallman, complete with the flowing mane, beard and sleepy eyes and a laptop, threw his hands in the air and shouted to the audience, "Freedom and free software is what we want!"
Sharing
"We are against the Patents Act, for it does not respect the freedom of the user. And for that matter, we are against any software that subjugates users or divides them because they can't share a programme with anyone else. We are for software that respects the user," he told the audience, all the while sipping from at least four constantly refilled cups of tea. He would "otherwise fall asleep." Even as the boisterous crowd kept chanting "free software," Stallman went on explaining why software "had to be free." "There are four essential freedoms. Freedom Zero - one that gives freedom to run the programme as you wish; Freedom One - one that allows you to study the source code and make changes of your choice; Freedom Two - the freedom to distribute the programme to whomsoever you want to; and Freedom Three - the liberty to publish your own modified version," he said. Arguing against the use of the term `software piracy', the crusader of free software for over two decades now said copying and violating the license of a programme was a lesser evil than not sharing a programme with whoever needed it. Still, since that would put one in a moral dilemma, there had to be free software, and not the proprietary kind of software that was "spreading its tentacles" along with various malicious features on computers across the globe.
Telugu version
Free Software Foundation of India all India work group member, Y. Kiran Chandra, said the number of Telugu words was being increased in the Telugu version of free software that was released by Stallman here on Wednesday.
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