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29 lines
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<h3 class="menuhead">
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The Importance of JavaScript that Respects Your Freedoms
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</h3>
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<blockquote class="quote">
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It occurred to me that when we announce ease.js it would be a good occasion to
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post something about the importance of making JavaScript code free.
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—Richard Stallman
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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GNU ease.js is in a position to help the free software community by providing
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features under a copyleft license that encourages developers to release their
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own code under a compatible free software license. But not everyone may
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understand why this decision and the urging of free (as in freedom) JavaScript
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are so fundamentally <em>vital</em> to the future of a free and cooperative
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Internet accessible to <em>all</em> users, including users of free software.
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</p>
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<p>
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<strong>We need your help to protect the fundamental freedoms of Internet
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users.</strong> This article is both a detailed description of the problem
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from the perspective of a user and an appeal to developers to develop free
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software for the Web; it is heavily influenced by Richard Stallman's article
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<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">The JavaScript
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Trap</a>—which you should also read—and has been written with his
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input. If you already write free JavaScript, then thank you.
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</p>
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