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< title > 20 Years FSFE: Time traveller Cory Doctorow sends his wishes
from utopian 2041!< / title >
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< h1 > 20 Years FSFE: Time traveller Cory Doctorow sends his
wishes from utopian 2041!< / h1 >
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< p >
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Prolific Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow envisions the world in 2041 and
informs us that we were able to solve major world problems thanks to
collective work and sharing of knowledge. Doctorow is thanking the
FSFE for our 20 years ahead contribution of fostering freedom and
disestablishing monopolies.< / p >
< p >
Cory Doctorow is a British-Canadian writer, author of several Sci-fi
novels, who has been blogging for twenty years now. He was co-editor of
the blog boingboing.net and now runs his own blog at < a
href="https://pluralistic.net">Pluralistic< / a > . Doctorow is one of the
trailblazers in the demands of digital rights and software freedom. He
speaks in favour of a less restrictive copyright law; his books are
published under Creative Commons licenses. His Sci-fi books often deal
with the ownership of technological means in the future. < / p >
< p >
For over a decade, he has been vocal in supporting the work of the
FSFE. This year, he is celebrating the 20 year anniversary of FSFE in
his own fascinating way. He greets us and congratulates us on our 40
year anniversary, talking to us from 2041. In the video you will find
below you can see how Doctorow fits the FSFE into his vision of 2041. < / p >
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< h2 > How does Cory Doctorow envision the future?< / h2 >
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In Doctorow's 2041, the world has faced many large scale natural
disasters, but paradoxically humanity thrives. The solution was to face
these challenges collectively and leave the spirit of competition
behind. Doctorow sees the value of cooperation in Free Software,
contrasting it to corporation monopolies. In this context, he thanks
FSFE for its priceless contribution to a better world during the years
2021-2041.< / p >
< p > You can read the full transcript of the video below. Cory Doctorow was
also our guest in the very < a href = "/news/podcast/episode-1.html" > first
episode of our Software Freedom Podcast< / a > which mainly focuses on
Digital Restriction Management. < / p >
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< h2 > ...since you're here: Brand new FSFE20 sticker< / h2 >
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< p > In 2021 the Free Software Foundation Europe turns 20.
This means two decades of
< a href = "/about/about.html" > empowering users to control
technology< / a > . We want to give momentum to the FSFE and
even more to our pan-European community, the community that
has formed and always will form the shoulders that our
movement relies on. To help you celebrating 20 Years of
FSFE with us, we have produced a brand new logo sticker. < a
href="/contribute/spreadtheword.html#fsfe-since-2001-sticker">Get
it, shout it, share it!< / a > < / p >
< figure >
< img src = "https://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/promomaterial/fsfe-since-2001/SINCE_2001_stamp_STICKER_medium.png" alt = "" / >
< figcaption > Show others for how long we are already working for software
freedom with the new tag 'FSFE since 2001'.< / figcaption >
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< h2 > Transcript of Cory Doctorow's birthday wishes for the FSFE< / h2 >
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< p >
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Hello FSFE, and congratulations from the year 2041 on your forty years of
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fighting for the digital rights of Europeans and of all people in all
places! It has been a couple of crazy decades since I spoke to you last
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at your twentieth.< / p >
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< p > In those two decades we have seen massive decentralization of the
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internet thanks in part to deep reforms to our anti-trust and monopoly
law, mandates for interoperability, and open APIs. And of course the
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changes in our economic system that arose from the great crises that we've
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endured over the past two decades: floods, fires, famine, refugee
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crises, all of the pandemics that we've lived through.< / p >
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< p > And it was only by realizing that we had to cooperate rather than
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compete, that we had to expose our technical infrastructure to outside
scrutiny and to outside improvement if we were going to survive crisis
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after crisis after crisis, that we were able to finally orient ourselves and our
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economy and our political project and our technological project towards
weathering the storm that we had all seen coming but that no one seemed
able to confront.< / p >
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< p > And after all, that turned out to be the difference, the difference between crisis and a
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happy ending, between dystopia and utopia. It was not whether the heat
that we had sunk into the ocean would melt the poles at will, nor
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whether the coastal cities would drown - they have. Nor whether the
wildfires would rage - they did. But whether, when they arose, when
these crises came to us, we confronted them head on, or continued to deny
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them, continued to pretend that we could lock up technical knowledge
behind proprietary walls, that we could lock up control of
technological systems in the hands of four or five digital robber
barons* who insisted that no government had jurisdiction over them and
that they were accountable to no one except their shareholders.< / p >
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< p > Once we realized that, once we embraced the ethic of collective work
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for a better future for our species, then we were able to turn the tide
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- not by averting the crises that were already set in motion, but by
addressing them when they arose.< / p >
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< p > Thank you FSFE for the work that you did on that, and thank you to all
the organizations allied with us around the world, who joined to make
that reality happen.< / p >
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< p > Cory Doctorow< / p >
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< p > *'Robber baron' is a historical term originating in the US which
criticizes practices of powerful businessmen that had destructive
consequences for the society.< / p >
< h3 > About "20 Years FSFE"< / h3 >
< p > In 2021 the Free Software
Foundation Europe turns 20. This means two decades of < a
href="/about/about.html">empowering users to control technology< / a >
. < / p > < figure > < img
src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/53aeebdafa0a0c83324dcafc1e4bef1c.png"
alt="Banner with FSFE 20 years. FSFE since 2001"/> < / figure >
< p > Turning 20 is a time when we like to take a breath and to look back
on the road we have come, to reflect the milestones we have passed,
the successes we have achieved, the stories we have written and the
moments that brought us together and that we will always joyfully
remember. In 2021 we want to give momentum to the FSFE and even
more to our pan-European community, the community that has formed
and always will form the shoulders that our movement relies on.
< / p > < p > < strong > 20 Years FSFE is meant to be a celebration of
everyone who has accompanied us in the past or still does. Thank
you for contributing your piece of the puzzle that shapes the FSFE
and setting the foundation for the next decades' work of the
movement for software freedom. < / strong > < / p >
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