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What is FOSS?
The first steps to understand that reality had not seen or had not stopped to see. Undoubtedly the world of digital technology and computing as a science has advanced to a very rapid pace to the point of turning ordinary elements of everyday life for much of the worlds population.
In countries with market economies, most of the globe, it is quite difficult to live without the much advertised benefits of computerized systems and computers. This need is a reflection of the degree of economic penetration, technical and social development of new tools that provide the "Digital Age".
We live constantly surrounded by information that travels around our: cellular telephony, Internet, ATMs, television signals, etc.. All comprise the daily reality of millions given to these comforts of the modern world without understanding or even think about.
Automation is a process that seems not to reach, and the only statements from people about these are words of praise, awe or silence. Then I invite you to think a little about the massive use of technology in our lives, the digitization of all our actions and our reality virtualization.
I invite you to find the common denominator among all the wonderful technologies listed above. If you do not find the answer quickly ask yourself: How does Internet work, our computers, cell phones and ATMs? Who will you obey the electronic systems of hospitals, banks and governments?. "For those who use ...
There is a widespread belief in the imagination of common people about the benefits of technology: according to the myth, these respond to the orders of the [consumer-users] have been designed to do what we want.
I ask the reader again, how many times you have asked your computer stops running lose doing the work of a whole night? Have you told the cashier that the credit card trap? Are you applying to your cell phone that refuses to send SMS?. No. This is because you do not control technology, these devices are controlled by the software.
¿Software? ¿Mandarin Chinese or the magic word they ever heard but never completed to understand?
The software is the one who controls your computer and all systems based on technology. You may or may not interact with the software. To heat your food in a microwave or to extract money from your account at an ATM operated software. It says how things work, is the logic that sustains all these possibilities and make them [in] function.
Your computer and devices will not obey you, only due to the software that controls them. So who controls the software controls the technology.
Many people prefer to know that this is the case: a third agreed that a unique control software and therefore how things work. Perhaps you also think that way after all you are not a technical or computer so you are interested.
You may not interested in who controls the software, but certainly concerned about having control over your privacy, your information, your money and your vote in one electoral vote. But someone checks this for you. Who is this someone? Again, the software and, of course, those who control the software.
Do you now understand the importance of software, "but ... who are behind him?
Perhaps this reading this article surfing the net with some software for this purpose: a web browser. Today almost 90% of the market for Web browsers is controlled by a known Microsoft Internet Explorer, and perhaps most likely know what this now using.
It is also possible that by using some version of Microsoft Windows operating system. You are now in control of giving all your information, you are in the hands of someone else, you have no way of knowing that your computer is doing at this moment.
And the fact that you do not know is not about you not being a technical specialist or a computer, although I know it was not. The owner of the software is the one who knows you and is not. He decided to deny you the control and of course you accept. You are just a consumer.
The software can come in two forms: the tool itself or binary, which you run and use, or source code, the programmer writes the instructions that determine how the program works.
To understand it better you give a simple analogy: a cake. The recipe for how to make the cake, the ingredients and procedure are the source code: the cook / programmer controls. What he says will determine the cake recipe that you eat. Determine that you will use the binary. Without a prescription no cake. Without source code there is no binary / executable.
It is also important to note another point of the analogy of the kitchen: You can not go back to the original ingredients obtained once the final product. Let us say it another way: you may not know exactly how they made a cake, you can not know all the ingredients you have or the details of the manufacturing process if you just eat the cake. Move this to the software: if you only operate the software is unable to know how it is designed and what it actually does.
From the above analysis the following conclusion about the software: the source code gives rise to the binary / executable, but the process is not the reverse. Unable to get the recipe / code on the cake / binary. Only if we know how the software can talk about transparency and only when we have access to modify the operation of the software we are empowered to stop being mere consumers.
The crucial distinction of the software is exactly this: access to power and understand how to change it. Let this distinction then. Software commented before, you may be the consumer does not know how it works and even fewer can adapt to our needs.
This is not possible for two reasons: the owners do not distribute the recipe / video of their programs and the power of these owners, as large corporations largely great economic power has enabled them to establish in their country of origin (the Most of the U.S.) that the attempt to share, learn how it works or modify your software is a crime. Such software is called software: depriving its users of knowledge, the ability to learn, enhance, share and whether the software does what it says to do.
The software is a closed box which we can not investigate. Andalusia pay for software do not buy the software (that would mean we would not only binary / cake, but also the video / recipe), just pay for a very limited use permit in which we define as powerless consumers of knowing that makes the software suitable for any form of software or knowledge involved.
In countries with market economies, most of the globe, it is quite difficult to live without the much advertised benefits of computerized systems and computers. This need is a reflection of the degree of economic penetration, technical and social development of new tools that provide the "Digital Age".
We live constantly surrounded by information that travels around our: cellular telephony, Internet, ATMs, television signals, etc.. All comprise the daily reality of millions given to these comforts of the modern world without understanding or even think about.
Automation is a process that seems not to reach, and the only statements from people about these are words of praise, awe or silence. Then I invite you to think a little about the massive use of technology in our lives, the digitization of all our actions and our reality virtualization.
I invite you to find the common denominator among all the wonderful technologies listed above. If you do not find the answer quickly ask yourself: How does Internet work, our computers, cell phones and ATMs? Who will you obey the electronic systems of hospitals, banks and governments?. "For those who use ...
There is a widespread belief in the imagination of common people about the benefits of technology: according to the myth, these respond to the orders of the [consumer-users] have been designed to do what we want.
I ask the reader again, how many times you have asked your computer stops running lose doing the work of a whole night? Have you told the cashier that the credit card trap? Are you applying to your cell phone that refuses to send SMS?. No. This is because you do not control technology, these devices are controlled by the software.
¿Software? ¿Mandarin Chinese or the magic word they ever heard but never completed to understand?
The software is the one who controls your computer and all systems based on technology. You may or may not interact with the software. To heat your food in a microwave or to extract money from your account at an ATM operated software. It says how things work, is the logic that sustains all these possibilities and make them [in] function.
Your computer and devices will not obey you, only due to the software that controls them. So who controls the software controls the technology.
Many people prefer to know that this is the case: a third agreed that a unique control software and therefore how things work. Perhaps you also think that way after all you are not a technical or computer so you are interested.
You may not interested in who controls the software, but certainly concerned about having control over your privacy, your information, your money and your vote in one electoral vote. But someone checks this for you. Who is this someone? Again, the software and, of course, those who control the software.
Do you now understand the importance of software, "but ... who are behind him?
Perhaps this reading this article surfing the net with some software for this purpose: a web browser. Today almost 90% of the market for Web browsers is controlled by a known Microsoft Internet Explorer, and perhaps most likely know what this now using.
It is also possible that by using some version of Microsoft Windows operating system. You are now in control of giving all your information, you are in the hands of someone else, you have no way of knowing that your computer is doing at this moment.
And the fact that you do not know is not about you not being a technical specialist or a computer, although I know it was not. The owner of the software is the one who knows you and is not. He decided to deny you the control and of course you accept. You are just a consumer.
The software can come in two forms: the tool itself or binary, which you run and use, or source code, the programmer writes the instructions that determine how the program works.
To understand it better you give a simple analogy: a cake. The recipe for how to make the cake, the ingredients and procedure are the source code: the cook / programmer controls. What he says will determine the cake recipe that you eat. Determine that you will use the binary. Without a prescription no cake. Without source code there is no binary / executable.
It is also important to note another point of the analogy of the kitchen: You can not go back to the original ingredients obtained once the final product. Let us say it another way: you may not know exactly how they made a cake, you can not know all the ingredients you have or the details of the manufacturing process if you just eat the cake. Move this to the software: if you only operate the software is unable to know how it is designed and what it actually does.
From the above analysis the following conclusion about the software: the source code gives rise to the binary / executable, but the process is not the reverse. Unable to get the recipe / code on the cake / binary. Only if we know how the software can talk about transparency and only when we have access to modify the operation of the software we are empowered to stop being mere consumers.
The crucial distinction of the software is exactly this: access to power and understand how to change it. Let this distinction then. Software commented before, you may be the consumer does not know how it works and even fewer can adapt to our needs.
This is not possible for two reasons: the owners do not distribute the recipe / video of their programs and the power of these owners, as large corporations largely great economic power has enabled them to establish in their country of origin (the Most of the U.S.) that the attempt to share, learn how it works or modify your software is a crime. Such software is called software: depriving its users of knowledge, the ability to learn, enhance, share and whether the software does what it says to do.
The software is a closed box which we can not investigate. Andalusia pay for software do not buy the software (that would mean we would not only binary / cake, but also the video / recipe), just pay for a very limited use permit in which we define as powerless consumers of knowing that makes the software suitable for any form of software or knowledge involved.
Where is the software?
On your computer, your web browser and operating system you are. You operate, but not the controls. You can not tell what they do. They are also much more critical in places where the transparency is not only an ethical issue but an issue of safety. Banks, hospitals, systems of government or the brand new electronic voting systems.
The ignorance in this respect is very great. Few people are questioning these things. We have created a huge accustomed to the disinformation and has placed the computer by itself, without wondering how its makers act as the cornerstone of modern times. Nobody questions the technology or wonder who controls them. How many times have you returned home without being able to complete a formality to get to the venue because it reported that "the system had fallen? Who is "the system" that falls when it wants and nobody seems to have control?
The software is bad. Not only technically, especially in its ethical aspect. Hidden knowledge, imprisons people for wanting to learn, teach that sharing is bad and we have a scenario where we can only obey without question, to consume and not produce, rather than deny it. The software is an important political element. Is characterized by cross intervenes in almost every human activity. Control over the software equivalent of the control over information and knowledge.
What is the exit? What is the solution to a problem for most is not a problem?
Returning to the above, the control software resides in your video. In other words, the real control over a thing is not something in itself, but the process and this knowledge used to generate something. It can be software, can be a cake, can be music, could be a building, may be what you want.
Free Software
In the software world there is a paradigm that poses a dichotomy with the prevailing model of software: Free Software. This has been thought up to the common good, social good.
The Free Software movement is a socio-emerged over two decades ago, which aims to promote the creation, expansion of software that respects the freedom of users.
What are these freedoms?
By definition there are four basic freedoms that must have a free software to be considered:
Freedom 0:
The freedom to run the software the way you want. In the opposite direction, many computer programs do not allow certain private uses such as creating another product that competes with that software.
Freedom 1:
The freedom to study and improve the software. This is impossible if we do not have access to source code, so the free software distribution features in addition to the binary / executable.
Freedom 2:
The liberty to copy and share. Free Software is, as I said, a social movement. Cree that sharing is a good thing and is not a crime. Have been invented fanciful notions as "piracy" defenestrated for the wonderful act of being generous, a good person. Free Software upholds these values and therefore not illegal copying and sharing. Moreover, its success is based just on that.
Freedom 3:
The freedom to distribute the improvements made. Thanks for Libertad 1, we can learn how the software, this freedom allows us to make our contribution. This freedom is responsible for creating communities of people that enhance and share their solutions with each other.
Who can use free software? Should I be a programmer?
No. The free software is functionally equivalent to non-free software, to operate one type or another is indistinct in practice. Anyone can learn to use and is free software, its capabilities are also aware of: no one will put barriers or attempt to condemn their curiosity.
You can learn up to the point where you want to adapt programs to their needs. And you do not need to be a programmer for this: many people use Free Software and adapts it to their language, their culture or their specific needs. It is legal and you are encouraged to do so.
There are thousands of free software: Web browsers, messaging programs, word processors, and virtually everything you need. There are also free operating systems which can be downloaded from the network almost always without paying anything.
You might ask: Is the Free Software is free software?
Not necessarily, Free Software is not about price but about freedom. You will find many free software for which you will not have to pay anything and there will be cases where if. In all cases the most important thing is assured: the software is free and therefore YOU.
Summarizing what is said in this article we highlight the importance of political and social software. It is a constitutive element of modern technology and it defines its logic. Devices and modern technology due to computers and software that is controlled by whoever has access to your source code: the instructions that determine who should and should not do the software.
In the present context we find that the owners of the most popular software and employees to disclose their operation or even less copying. According to their rules and learn how bad it is illegal to share. This model is known as software as it deprives users of their freedoms.
There is a construction based on other principles: the free software has been developed in this community for people worldwide to share programs and improvements to their needs and preferences.
Free Software is created by a pair to another pair. The private was designed from the perspective of a seller to a consumer.
The ignorance in this respect is very great. Few people are questioning these things. We have created a huge accustomed to the disinformation and has placed the computer by itself, without wondering how its makers act as the cornerstone of modern times. Nobody questions the technology or wonder who controls them. How many times have you returned home without being able to complete a formality to get to the venue because it reported that "the system had fallen? Who is "the system" that falls when it wants and nobody seems to have control?
The software is bad. Not only technically, especially in its ethical aspect. Hidden knowledge, imprisons people for wanting to learn, teach that sharing is bad and we have a scenario where we can only obey without question, to consume and not produce, rather than deny it. The software is an important political element. Is characterized by cross intervenes in almost every human activity. Control over the software equivalent of the control over information and knowledge.
What is the exit? What is the solution to a problem for most is not a problem?
Returning to the above, the control software resides in your video. In other words, the real control over a thing is not something in itself, but the process and this knowledge used to generate something. It can be software, can be a cake, can be music, could be a building, may be what you want.
Free Software
In the software world there is a paradigm that poses a dichotomy with the prevailing model of software: Free Software. This has been thought up to the common good, social good.
The Free Software movement is a socio-emerged over two decades ago, which aims to promote the creation, expansion of software that respects the freedom of users.
What are these freedoms?
By definition there are four basic freedoms that must have a free software to be considered:
Freedom 0:
The freedom to run the software the way you want. In the opposite direction, many computer programs do not allow certain private uses such as creating another product that competes with that software.
Freedom 1:
The freedom to study and improve the software. This is impossible if we do not have access to source code, so the free software distribution features in addition to the binary / executable.
Freedom 2:
The liberty to copy and share. Free Software is, as I said, a social movement. Cree that sharing is a good thing and is not a crime. Have been invented fanciful notions as "piracy" defenestrated for the wonderful act of being generous, a good person. Free Software upholds these values and therefore not illegal copying and sharing. Moreover, its success is based just on that.
Freedom 3:
The freedom to distribute the improvements made. Thanks for Libertad 1, we can learn how the software, this freedom allows us to make our contribution. This freedom is responsible for creating communities of people that enhance and share their solutions with each other.
Who can use free software? Should I be a programmer?
No. The free software is functionally equivalent to non-free software, to operate one type or another is indistinct in practice. Anyone can learn to use and is free software, its capabilities are also aware of: no one will put barriers or attempt to condemn their curiosity.
You can learn up to the point where you want to adapt programs to their needs. And you do not need to be a programmer for this: many people use Free Software and adapts it to their language, their culture or their specific needs. It is legal and you are encouraged to do so.
There are thousands of free software: Web browsers, messaging programs, word processors, and virtually everything you need. There are also free operating systems which can be downloaded from the network almost always without paying anything.
You might ask: Is the Free Software is free software?
Not necessarily, Free Software is not about price but about freedom. You will find many free software for which you will not have to pay anything and there will be cases where if. In all cases the most important thing is assured: the software is free and therefore YOU.
Summarizing what is said in this article we highlight the importance of political and social software. It is a constitutive element of modern technology and it defines its logic. Devices and modern technology due to computers and software that is controlled by whoever has access to your source code: the instructions that determine who should and should not do the software.
In the present context we find that the owners of the most popular software and employees to disclose their operation or even less copying. According to their rules and learn how bad it is illegal to share. This model is known as software as it deprives users of their freedoms.
There is a construction based on other principles: the free software has been developed in this community for people worldwide to share programs and improvements to their needs and preferences.
Free Software is created by a pair to another pair. The private was designed from the perspective of a seller to a consumer.
Albert Sirvent - Grupo DomainGurus