Z:gnu-www-ja-15-years-of-free-software--188db2-But our freedom is not permane/en

But our freedom is not permanently assured. The world does not stand still, and we cannot count on having freedom five years from now, just because we have it today. Free software faces difficult challenges and dangers. It will take determined efforts to preserve our freedom, just as it took to obtain freedom in the first place. Meanwhile, the operating system is just the beginning&mdash;now we need to add free applications to handle the whole range of jobs that users want to do.