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<h1>08 - Why I use free software, and support the free software movement</h1>
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<h2>Date: 2022-08-02</h2>
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<p style="text-align: left">I once was a normie, who didn't care about privacy and security, and that used apple products. But, this changed when I became aware of the evils of proprietary, non-free software, and the significant risks that come with using them.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">I then discovered the free software movement, and have been trying to limit the amount of non-free software I use in my day to day life. Free software is important to me because, the chances of free software being malware and doing nasty things are significantly lower compared to non-free, proprietary software.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">This is because, for a piece of software to be considered free software, the source code (the human readable form of software that programmers edit to make changes to the software) has to be freely available for anyone to view, modify, edit, and/or redistribute. This allows lots of members from the community to audit the code, and verify that the program in question is actually doing what the developer claims that it does when you run it, and not some nasty stuff behind your back (such as unauthorized data collection).</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">I have lots of respect and appreciation for the many community members that work on and audit free software for primarily that reason. I try to stay far away from proprietary, non-free software because it's source code is not auditable by the public, meaning that the potential for that piece of software to have malicious functionality baked into it is incredibly high.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">For those who try to defend proprietary, non-free software and claim that this is for "security reasons", think again. What good is it for a company to audit itself, or for a government to audit itself? Same case here. The original developers could be lying about what their program does, and because it's proprietary, closed-source, non-free software, no one would ever know for sure. I personally do not want to take that risk when it comes to my computing, so I stick with free software wherever possible.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">Signed,</p>
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<p style="text-align: left">Lilium_Snow (Primrose)</p>
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