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Make Software Free (Again)

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What's Next for Free Software?

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Bastian: If I go back and look at the last 40 years, I would say there has been a change of ages. After this decade, it was more like a kind of a horizontal growth of these open ideas. What I think is that during this decade, the last one, we had many of these open new things go successfully,. But too much less affair, as I said. And we are changing the direction. So it's not the next decade will be less affair and more governments willing to have an opinionated politics about strategy.

Welcome back to another season of Code for Thought. And I'd like to kick it off with an interview with Bastien Guerry. Working for the French government, Bastien promotes the use, creation and distribution of Free Software. And in our conversation we discuss the four freedoms as defined by the Free Software Foundation.

Bastien is also an active member of the Emacs community and a contributor to one of the modes: Org mode - a note taking facility. Having used Emacs for a long time it's good to see that it is alive and well.

https://bzg.fr/en/libreplanet2022-notes/ Bastien's blog and intro
https://www.fsf.org The Free Software Foundation
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html GPL licence
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/open_research_french_ecosystem/ Bastien's presentation on open software at FOSDEM early 2022
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ - YES, it's EMACS
https://orgmode.org Emac's Org mode for note taking etc

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