英語 での Nonfree の使用例とその 日本語 への翻訳
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If you distribute nonfree software, or steer people towards it, you will find it hard to say,“Nonfree software is an injustice, a social problem, and we must put an end to it.”.
Adobe nonfree software may halt all other work and freeze a computer to perform a license check, at a random time every 30 days.
If some of a program's dependencies are nonfree, this means that all or part of the program is unable to run in an entirely free system- it is unusable in the Free World.
That would be a nuisance, but the fact that a license would make code nonfree if transplanted into a very different context does not make it nonfree in the original context.
Some proprietary(nonfree) programs, such as Photoshop, are very expensive; others, such as Flash Player, are available gratis- but that's a minor detail.
In other cases, permission to use a particular library in nonfree programs enables a greater number of people to use a large body of free software.
I want to encourage the free improvements to these programs, and the best way to do that is to take away any temptation for a person to make improvements nonfree.
Even if the executable is made from free source code, the users cannot run modified versions of it, so the executable is nonfree.
This could mean a cute nonfree application that will catch some user's eye, or a nonfree programming platform such as Java(formerly) or the Flash runtime(still), or a nonfree device driver that enables support for certain hardware models.
If you are literally forced to teach nonfree software, you should tell your students that you consider this software unethical, that you are doing this only because you are being forced, and that you will do as little of it as possible so that you can move on to freedom-respecting software.
For some kinds of hardware(Wi-Fi chipsets, 3D graphic cards) to work properly, specific firmware or software may be needed, this is available in a specific online repository called"nonfree"(learn more).
Nonfree Software and SaaSS.
Malware and nonfree software are two different issues.
Most nonfree licenses are not open source either.
The issue is whether we guide users towards nonfree software.
Nonfree DRM would Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?
Nonfree software in GNU/Linux distros already works against the goal of freedom.
Nonfree software puts its users under the power of the software's developer.
Nonfree software puts its users under the power of the software's developer.
Nonfree software was the first way for companies to take control of people's computing.