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Author: Jesús E.
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Category: Opinión
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Date: 2018-02-17 08:14
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Image: 2018/02/question.png
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Lang: en
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Save_as: why-not-windows/index.html
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URL: why-not-windows/
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Slug: por-que-no-windows
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Tags: libre, libertad, gnu, linux-libre
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Title: Why not Windows?
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Windows and Office work well, then: **how can this be so bad?**
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## Restrictions
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A legal copy of Windows is expensive, but what do you get?
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Windows and Office are licensed, not sold.
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By using these products, we have to agree **to a number of
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harsh restrictions**. For most Windows licenses, you can't
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keep the software when you change the hardware. You
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sometimes can't even give your software away. Who can run
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the software? On which computer? What can you do with it?
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The list of restrictions is long and some items are
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outrageous.
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## Can't we choose?
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Software should come without mechanisms to tie users
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to a company's products.
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Why are Office documents difficult to export?
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Why are the formats continually changing? Why can
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you not even uninstall some programs? It might be
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that if you look for choice, Microsoft products
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aren't for you.
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## Without source code
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The source code (the details of how a program works) of Windows
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and Office are hidden, and also **nobody has legal permission
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to find out how this work**.
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If you don't have the right to inspect the source code
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(the description of how a program works), you can't ask a
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developer to modify the software or evaluate how
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the software protects your privacy.
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And guess what? On software that comes with source code,
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viruses and spyware aren't effective, and security isn't
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bought on extra. The antivirus software industry, in which
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Microsoft is now a significant player, prefers you
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to use Windows.
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## For a Free Society
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A free society requires Free Software. Think of "Free" as freedom,
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not price: the freedom to inspect, learn, and modify the
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software you use.
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Computers are used to share ideas, culture, and information.
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Without these liberties over software, we are at risk of
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losing control over what we share.
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This is happening today. From plain annoying technologies
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such as [Digital Restrictions Management][drm] (DRM) to
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downright frightening ones like [Trusted Computing][tc],
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everyone's ability to participate in culture is threatened.
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If you have to give up your freedoms to use software,
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maybe you should not be happy with it.
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Original publish: [https://www.getgnulinux.org/windows/](https://www.getgnulinux.org/windows/)
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[drm]: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html
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[tc]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
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[locutorio]: https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3332612/0/prision-duena-locutorio-tenia-copias-ilicitas-windows-instaladas/
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