Een apple tegen de vrijheid

[Johan Bollen]

Richard Stallman waarschuwt ons door wie de vrijheid van de gebruiker het meest onder druk staat

Stallman, father of the ‘free software’: “Apple is the worst enemy of the user’s freedom”

The founder of the movement of free software, the New Yorker Richard Stallman, has said that “Apple is the worst enemy of freedom of the user” and that “bans” in their app stores software without intellectual property rights. In an interview prior to deliver a lecture at the University of Murcia this Monday, Stallman said that Apple “was the first to squeeze the maximum digital handcuffs” expression that refers to that their computers are”prisons” for those who use, because that company prevents the user load on these computers applications other than their own them. In his view, Microsoft is trying to “divert attention from the public in such a way that it diverts the discussion from freedom of the free code into something superficial to it not referred to it”. Stallman stated focus “to freedom, to fight for it, especially from the field of computer science”, but on grounds that admits to not being a “leader” does to support the extent of their possibilities and with the slipstream of his surname. Declared guerrilla against the proprietary computer programs that do not allow them to control their users ensures that you launched his movement after work in the 1970s of the century passed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and suffer in their flesh the change to use free software to the payment. With regard to proprietary software, free software guru what qualifies as “tyrannical and unjust” and denounces the practices in this sense of the leading companies Apple (MacOs), Microsoft (Windows), Adobe (Flashplayer) and Oracle (Google). “Moreover, he assured that it would be”a global disaster”that flourish the denunciation of Oracle against Sun Systems on intellectual property rights, not only for the loss of the search engine used in the world,” Google, but also “for the rest of the effects of being a monopoly which is known as broad”. The four freedoms of free software are, in his words, “run programs as you want, study and change your source in a way that adapts to the use you want to give everyone, distribute exact copies of their originals and do the same with versions modified by users”. “America’s Democrats may be employees of Hollywood;” “sold the film and music companies”, according to Stallman, who think that the current President of United States, Barack Obama, “is not much better” than the previous “George Bush, father and son” Republicans.

However, support free software in Europe “the Pirate Party and the Greens, and Spain, the Government of Andaluc�*a and Extremadura”, until that left his presidency Juan Carlos Rodr�*guez Ibarra. Or in Latin America, the Ecuador President, Rafael Correa, who is the only politician in the world “that openly promotes the software free and it conditions to public enterprises in his country to justify the use of proprietary software.”

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