Free Software, Technology and Jobs

What is a free software?

"Free software" is software that respects the users' freedom and community. Broadly speaking, this means that users are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. That is, the "free software" is a matter of liberty, not price.

A program is free software if users have the four essential freedoms :

1.The freedom to run the program as you wish , for any purpose. 

2.The freedom to study how the program works , and change it to do what you wish. 

3.The freedom to redistribute copies to help your neighbor.

4.The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others. This allows you to offer the community the opportunity to benefit from the changes. 

Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software. With this, he also launched the free software movement. 

Jobs affected by technology

For centuries, people have worried that new technologies will destroy jobs without creating enough new ones.

A hundred years ago, 20% of the occupations that we have today, did not exist; but that means 80% did. So, why we do  create new types of jobs?

The following jobs have existed for a long time with human workers because ONLY HUMAN WORKERS CAN DO THEM:

. Waiters

. Truck drivers

. Secretaries

. Teachers

. Nurses

Computers and robots could not yet do! :)

Computer industry, internet, telecom, electronics, aerospace, chemistry, science... Only 5% of jobs since the 1993 came from these industries.

And the question is: what do we do as a society? Do we need to work to survive?

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