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-Free Software Community                                            A. Yu
-RFD 1                                         The 2nd School Aff. to FDU
-                                                           16 April 2022
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-                   Pragmatic Use of Nonfree Software
-                       Request for Discussions 1
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-Abstract
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-   Free Software is undoubtably a good thing for society.  However,
-   modern computer users are stuck in the proprietary "ecosystem" for
-   historical reasons.  This document describes the author's viewpoint
-   of using proprietary platforms to spread the ideas of Free Software.
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-Status of This Memo
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-   This document is currently in the DRAFT status.
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-   This document describes the author's viewpoint.  This does not
-   represent the ideas of the Free Software Foundation or any other
-   entity.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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-Table of Contents
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-   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
-   2.  Justification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
-   3.  Action Procedure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
-   4.  Technical Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
-   5.  Conclusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
-   6.  FSF Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
-   7.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
-   Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
-   Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
-   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
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-1.  Introduction
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-   Readers of this memo probably understand the ideals of the Free
-   Software Movement, and avoid proprietary software when possible.
-   However, as most outsiders are unaware and are deeply buried inside
-   the proprietary dystopia created by mostly multibillion-dollar
-   technology coorporations, our methods of communicating with the
-   masses are ineffective.
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-   In February 2022, the author decided to adjust his dogma, and
-   permitted limited usage of nonfree chat platforms to hopefully spread
-   our ideas to the general public.  This was attempted by registering a
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-   Discord account, creating a Guild called "Free Software
-   Introductions", and setting up a basic Discord-to-IRC relay to #fsi
-   on both irc.andrewyu.org and irc.libera.chat.
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-   One of the communities that he knows about, the VF-Technic Minetest
-   community, primarily uses Discord as a means of communication by
-   plays not in-game.  As the users inside are Minetest players, a Free
-   Software voxel sandbox game, similar to but much more flexible and
-   freedom-respecting than Minecraft, it is believed that the users have
-   some contact with Free Software, although they might not understand
-   the freedom part of the issue, i.e. they might be thinking in terms
-   of "open source" instead.  After sharing the invite link in the VF-
-   Technic Guild, some people joined, and we've partially converted two
-   users.
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-2.  Justification
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-   Two users is definitely few, but it sets a start and an example for
-   how freedom can be spread.
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-   There are numerous free replacements to proprietary services such as
-   Discord, such as Internet Relay Chat, the Extensible Messaging and
-   Presense Protocol, the Matrix protocol, and email.  As Free Software
-   activists, we generally prefer these protocols over nonfree services.
-   This section explains the reasons to consider nonfree services and
-   protocols.
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-   Generally, users on IRC and XMPP have a fair understanding of the
-   Free Software Movement, and it is quick and easy to inform them what
-   we mean by "free", "the four freedoms", and similar ideas.  For users
-   on the Libera Chat IRC network, which by far has the most users of
-   any network, it is exceptionally easy to introduce a user into the
-   #fsf channel for discussions with people supporting Free Software.
-   Introducing ignorant users on these protocols and platforms are a
-   day-to-day simple task.
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-   Furthermore, the amount of users we can reach on these protocols are
-   rather limiting.  Libera has around forty thousand users according to
-   the USERS command, and considering the fact that around 90% of these
-   people aren't ignorant, there isn't much we can do.
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-   Matrix users, in particular users of the matrix.org homeserver,
-   typically know but don't completely understand Free Software.  Rather
-   than using Matrix IDs to identify users, the Matrix specification
-   specifies that third-party platform identities, such as email and
-   GitHub, are how users should be referenced both internally by servers
-   and shown to other users.  This is obviously an increadibly foolish
-   idea, especially considering the use of centralized identity servers
-   (similar to X509 certificate authorities) for 3PIDs.  These are our
-   first targets, but these should also be easy to get the idea across.
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-   It is true that Libera Chat and similar IRC networks, though multi-
-   centered in a technical way (i.e. multiple IRC servers form an IRC
-   network), the network is politically centralized, controlled by one
-   entity, Libera.  The Internet Relay Chat server-to-server protocol
-   implies that servers fully trust each other and are expected to not
-   send damaging commands, which in turn implies full trust between
-   server operators, no federation, and political centralization.  The
-   privacy policy and network policy of Libera Chat are in the author's
-   opinion non-intrusive, therefore the use of which is acceptable and
-   is promoted by the FSF.  (Obviously, most methods of using IRC do not
-   involve nonfree software.)
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-   Nevertheless, those that have never touched Free Software are often
-   on giant proprietary platforms, and take these as universal methods
-   of communication.  Many people go months before checking their
-   mailbox (physical or electronic), refuse to use XMPP or IRC for its
-   age.
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-   An alternative protocol, Internet Delay Chat, is being developed.
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-   There is one special case where using some nonfree software, and even
-   urging others to use it, can be a positive thing.  That's when the
-   use of the nonfree software aims directly at putting an end to the
-   use of that very same nonfree software.[RMSGP] The author believes
-   that the following fall within this scope:
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-   *  Developing a free project that requires nonfree environments to
-      bootstrap;
-   *  To spread awareness of software freedom issues to users in nonfree
-      environments.
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-   As almost all types of development can be done on most types of BSD
-   and GNU operating systems, the author hasn't found any software that
-   fit this category.  Extending the interpretation allos for using
-   nonfree software's behavior as a reference in Free Software
-   development, though an arguable programming practice, may help the
-   community to progress by understanding common features that users of
-   nonfree services use.
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-   The latter is more interesting, as explained above our methods of
-   spreading awareness is limited.
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-3.  Action Procedure
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-   Activists MUST NOT list such nonfree services in "Contact
-   Information" pages on their website or similar sources, unless
-   followed by a explanation that the purpose of the nonfree platform is
-   to introduce users thereof onto free protocols and to eventually
-   exterminate the nonfree platform.  Whenever these references to
-   nonfree platforms appear, the author MUST present free methods of
-   communication.  Activists SHOULD pragmatically use as many of the
-   popular free protocols as possible, to ensure that oppurtunities of
-   introductions are not lost.  In cases involving competition between
-   free and nonfree protocols and platforms, ethical concerns (i.e.
-   enabling talking to a new user on any ethical platform) MUST take
-   precedence over technical concerns (such as disliking the XMPP
-   protocol for its inefficent use of XML) whenever possible.
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-   Communities for introducing users to Free Software on nonfree
-   platforms MUST be bridged to a free protocol in some obvious way, in
-   order to minimize the usage of nonfree platforms even for the purpose
-   of communicating ideology to new users and allow members of the Free
-   Software community refusing to use nonfree platforms in any way to
-   participate.  Usages of nonfree platforms, besides part of the user-
-   introduction process that must happen on the nonfree platform, SHOULD
-   be avoided.
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-   For example, the author created a Discord Guild called Free Software
-   Introductions, which is one-way-puppeted to #fsi on irc.andrewyu.org,
-   which is then one-way-puppeted to Libera.  The relay system is sort-
-   of messed up, but it's working.  Inviting new users to it via
-   https://discord.gg/7CYp7ntww7 (https://discord.gg/7CYp7ntww7) is
-   good, but as the author has made his own sacrifice already, there
-   exists no need for other existing Free Software activists to join and
-   use it instead of IRC.
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-4.  Technical Limitations
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-   The old and centralized nature of IRC, the insane 3PID recommendation
-   of Matrix, the bad routing and efficency of XMPP, and the lack of
-   documentation on PSYC, has led us to develop a new protocol, Internet
-   Delay Chat[IDC], which aims to be free, modern (i.e. support for
-   channel groups and shared permission sets, non-text data with MIME
-   types), sane (i.e.  TCP, UDP and SCTP-based, instead of HTTP POST
-   APIs) and simple.
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-5.  Conclusion
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-6.  FSF Considerations
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-7.  Normative References
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-   [IDC]      Yu, A., "Internet Delay Chat", April 2022,
-              <https://git.andrewyu.org/internet-delay-chat>.
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-   [RMSGP]    Stallman, R., "Is It Ever a Good Thing to Use a Nonfree
-              Program?", September 2013, <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
-              is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.en.html>.
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-Acknowledgements
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-Contributors
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-Author's Address
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-   Andrew Yu
-   The 2nd School Aff. to FDU
-   Email: andrew@andrewyu.org
-   URI:   https://www.andrewyu.org/
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