Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-kol--9d80ca-Once GNU-Linux was ready in 19/en

Once GNU-Linux was ready in 1992, it began to catch on. It was reliable, powerful, cheap and flexible. Thousands and millions of people began to use GNU-Linux. But the ideals of freedom began to be forgotten though. In 1998, people stopped talking about Free Software. Instead they said &ldquo;open source&rdquo;. That was a way of not saying &ldquo;free&rdquo; and not mentioning the ideas behind it. I don't disagree with that, but that's not what I am interested in. What I'm really interested in most of all is to teach people to value their freedoms and to fight for them. In software, as in the US, our freedom is threatened. So the basic things we need to do are: remember our freedom frequently, value it and insist on it. When someone says they protect me from terrorism by taking away my freedom&mdash;say No! Similarly, with software that threatens our freedom, that might give us some temporary comparative advantage&mdash;we should say No!