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This essay will be released with the GNU ease.js 0.2.0 release announcement.

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Mike Gerwitz 2014-03-12 21:02:46 -04:00
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</blockquote> </blockquote>
<p> <p>
GNU ease.js is in a position to help the free software community by providing GNU ease.js provides a set of unmatched and desirable features under a
features under a copyleft license that encourages developers to release their copyleft license, which encourages developers to release their own code under
own code under a compatible free software license. But not everyone may a compatible free software license. But not everyone may understand why this
understand why this decision and the urging of free (as in freedom) JavaScript decision&mdash;and the urging of free (as in freedom) JavaScript&mdash;are so
are so fundamentally <em>vital</em> to the future of a free and cooperative fundamentally vital to the future of a free and cooperative Internet that is
Internet accessible to <em>all</em> users, including users of free software. accessible to <em>everyone</em>, regardless of whether they exclusively use
free software.
</p> </p>
<p> <p>
<strong>We need your help to protect the fundamental freedoms of Internet <strong>We need your help to protect the fundamental freedoms of Internet
users.</strong> This article is both a detailed description of the problem users.</strong> This brief essay is an appeal to developers to develop free
from the perspective of a user and an appeal to developers to develop free
software for the Web; it is heavily influenced by Richard Stallman's article software for the Web; it is heavily influenced by Richard Stallman's article
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">The JavaScript <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">The JavaScript
Trap</a>&mdash;which you should also read&mdash;and has been written with his Trap</a>&mdash;which you should also read&mdash;and has been written with his
input. If you already write free JavaScript, then thank you. input. If you already write free JavaScript, then thank you.
</p> </p>
<div class="essay">
<p>
<span class="firsts">Web pages increasingly include JavaScript code, which
raises the same ethical concerns as software written in any other
language:</span> Non-free JavaScript can rob you of your right to study,
modify, and share the software that you are running. Unlike traditional
software, JavaScript usually enters your machine without prompting and often
without your knowledge---the simple act of visiting a web page may install
and execute a non-free program within your web browser.
</p>
<p>
JavaScript provides an often frictionless cross-platform distribution
mechanism that can be exploited without your permission; this amplifies
the effects of some of the most insidious anti-features, such as spying
on your activities and tracking your movements. If a web page executes
non-free code, how are you able to audit it (or have someone else do so
on your behalf) to ensure that it is not malicious? Further, how are
you or others able to modify the software to remove the malicious code?
(Unfortunately, the latter can be complicated even with free JavaScript,
but it can be done.)
</p>
<p>
But non-malicious programs sometimes need changes too. You deserve
control over all software that runs on your computer; why should you
sacrifice this freedom simply because JavaScript creates the illusion
of remote execution?
</p>
<p>
How many web sites have you visited today that download JavaScript
onto your computer? How many of them respect your freedoms? I chose
to license ease.js under the GPLv3+ because I believe that non-free
JavaScript should be eliminated, not enabled. Please help to spread
the word and join me in writing free JavaScript; without it, we will
have an Internet that is locked away from free software users; this is
not the spirit in which the Internet was created.
</p>
<p class="sign">
<a href="http://mikegerwitz.com/">Mike Gerwitz</a>
<br />
Author of GNU ease.js
</p>
<dl class="links">
<dt class="imp">To join in on the FSF's Free JavaScript campaign:</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://fsf.org/campaigns/freejs">
https://fsf.org/campaigns/freejs
</a>
</dd>
<dt>More information on the JavaScript trap is available here:</dt>
<dd>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
</a>
</dd>
<dt>More information on free software and its freedoms:</dt>
<dd>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
</a>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="imgattr">
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/graphics/anothertypinggnu.html">
Another Typing GNU Hacker
</a>
</p>
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