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General Purpose Computing

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For maintaining sustained growth in the development and use of + software, the broad availability of general purpose computers is + crucial. FSFE's goal is to ensure that the owners of IT devices are + always in full and sole control of them.

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Evolving the computer as a general purpose machine over the past + decades, our society has created a powerful tool to perform all kinds of + tasks with a single machine. Now IT manufacturers have discovered that they + may have an economic interest to arbitrarily limit what these machines can + achieve.

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The entity who eventually controls which software can be executed on a + device and thus determines the specific functions the device performs, + ultimately can control any data processed and stored by the device. In + result, the owner of an IT device may not be in sole control of their own + data any more.

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Liberate Your Device

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+ With a function called "Secure Boot", which will be deployed in computers starting 2012, manufacturers of IT hardware and software components are striving to get into a position where they permanently control the IT devices they produce. +

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Free Your Android

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+ You want a smartphone that is really yours when you bought it? You want a + smartphone that does not spy on you and hands over your data to big + corporations? Then read on! +

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