Fw: FSF Initiatives for Libraries
por ahi les interesa, sobre todo en cuanto a otras iniciativas libres
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [lib-info-society] Free Software Foundation Initiatives for
>Libraries (alternative to Microsoft and other privateers of
>software)
>Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
>
>You may like your shrunk budgets and limited energies make Bill Gates
>richer while his MS privateer products privatee library
>computer users freedom. I would rather suggest you and invite you to join
>forces on the Free Software Movement for libraries.
>Certainly we will not increase privateering profits of Bill Gates and
>alike Band of Brothers, but we will be more satisfied by giving library
>users computing freedom from liberation.
>
>I rather invite you to save tax payers money investing on the cheapest and
>best computing solutions for your libraries by using
>the Free Software Foundation initiatives for libraries computing systems,
>while at the same time, mainly, you give yourselves and your library users
>freedom of domination and expensive software like Microsoft and all
>private and privateering software
>companies.
>
>The budgets of your library are not yours, certainly, it's funded by tax
>payers, it belong to the public --while still there is a public domain
>belonging to the public, not to corporations and corporate rulers--. I'm
>sure any citizen, following the common sense, would buy the best sofware
>solutions (like any other product), to the cheapest prices. Free Software
>based systems are most of them free of charge, or the cheapest, but the
>main thing: they are free (of freedom and liberty) from domination. The
>freedom Bill Gates, Microsoft, and all band of brothers steal, and
>usurpate from all the citizens of the world, who buy their products. Thus,
>if you, for your home you would buy /or download free of charge from the
>Web the cheapest solutions, which give you freedom: Free Software
>(GNU/Linux, Mozilla, Firefox, OpenOffice, OpenCalc, you name it), why then
>you would buy in the name of library users and citizens, the most
>expensive, private and privateer computing systems, i.e. as Gate's
>Microsoft or most of all automated library systems, or bibliographic
>suites such as OCLC and the like? Or either librarians have invested
>interests with corporations, or corporations bribe them, or simply put,
>private and privateer corporations rule what used to be a public and open
>to debate domain, more than hundred years ago used to called Public Domain.
>
>For the librarians who care about the ethical professional principles,
>mainly for the benefit of the public domain, for citizens, for the tax
>payers, for all the people in the communities, specially those who are
>neglected, excluded, deprived and alienated, they need to become the
>strongest resistence to the hollowing-out of public domain values such as
>democracy and freedom. Learning, researching and developing on the
>benefits of free software will guarantee our users millionth times more
>computing solutions and benefits with the same dollar they'd invest in
>Microsoft. (Oh, Bill Gates donates for the first year some computers... oh
>yes, like some other businessmen give you something free until you have to
>steal or kill to keep up
>with the price). Private and privateer software is not free, only free
>software.
>
>For those who care about the public domain, this is just a short list of
>benefits of using free software. If you want to learn
>more, you may as well read my article published in an Open Access Chilean
>journal: "An introduction to the theoretical and
>practical challenges the stakeholders of the repositories of public
>knowledge face on the information society phenomenon"
>http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003577/ or more recently read this one
>published in a Mexican Open Access journal: "The age of the corporate
>state versus the informational and cognitive public domain"
>http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/actual/zmuela.html
>
>See list below and some working examples by librarians who care for the
>public domain by giving the most affordable and freest computing solutions.
>Regards,
>
>Zapopan Mart�n Muela-Meza, Librarian
>P.S. OCLC, in its origins it used to be a public domain coalition as it
>used be the Dialog system... people, including corporate-minded librarians
>let the free, public, and democratic information-knowledge get
>corporativizedly enclosured, it is to us to re-open it and restore it for
>the public, for the citizens... the Free Software Movement; the Open
>Access Movements are these kind of movements for those librarians who
>still adhere to ethical principles and who still call library users as
>such... Koha: Free Software Library System (free as freedom and free of charge)
>http://www.koha.org/
>
>Koha: Free Software Library System (free as freedom and free of charge)
>http://www.koha.org/
>
>Quiet revolution: Librarians teach and preach Free Software for Libraries
>at convention Monday June 17, 2002 (03:43 PM GMT)
>http://www.newsforge.com/software/02/06/17/1514234.shtml?tid=11.
>
>(...)
Diego Saravia
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