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<title>20 Years FSFE: Time traveller Cory Doctorow sends his wishes
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from utopian 2041!</title>
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<h1>20 Years FSFE: Time traveller Cory Doctorow sends his
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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
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informs us that we were able to solve major world problems thanks to
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collective work and sharing of knowledge. Doctorow is thanking the
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FSFE for our 20 years ahead contribution of fostering freedom and
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disestablishing monopolies.</p>
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<p>
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Cory Doctorow is a British-Canadian writer, author of several Sci-fi
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novels, who has been blogging for twenty years now. He was co-editor of
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the blog boingboing.net and now runs his own blog at <a href="https://pluralistic.net">Pluralistic</a>. Doctorow is one of the
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trailblazers in the demands of digital rights and software freedom. He
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speaks in favour of a less restrictive copyright law; his books are
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published under Creative Commons licenses. His Sci-fi books often deal
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with the ownership of technological means in the future. </p>
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<p>
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For over a decade, he has been vocal in supporting the work of the
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FSFE. This year, he is celebrating the 20 year anniversary of FSFE in
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his own fascinating way. He greets us and congratulates us on our 40
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year anniversary, talking to us from 2041. In the video you will find
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below you can see how Doctorow fits the FSFE into his vision of 2041. </p>
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<track label="Italian" srclang="it" kind="subtitles" src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/20years/cory_doctorow/subtitles/webvtt/cory_doctorow_it.vtt"/>
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</video>
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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
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disasters, but paradoxically humanity thrives. The solution was to face
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these challenges collectively and leave the spirit of competition
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behind. Doctorow sees the value of cooperation in Free Software,
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contrasting it to corporation monopolies. In this context, he thanks
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FSFE for its priceless contribution to a better world during the years
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2021-2041.</p>
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<p>You can read the full transcript of the video below. Cory Doctorow was
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also our guest in the very <a href="/news/podcast/episode-1.html">first
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episode of our Software Freedom Podcast</a> which mainly focuses on
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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.
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This means two decades of
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<a href="/about/about.html">empowering users to control
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technology</a>. We want to give momentum to the FSFE and
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even more to our pan-European community, the community that
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has formed and always will form the shoulders that our
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movement relies on. To help you celebrating 20 Years of
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FSFE with us, we have produced a brand new logo sticker. <a href="/contribute/spreadtheword.html#fsfe-since-2001-sticker">Get
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it, shout it, share it!</a></p>
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<img src="https://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/promomaterial/fsfe-since-2001/SINCE_2001_stamp_STICKER_medium.png" alt=""/>
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<figcaption>Show others for how long we are already working for software
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freedom with the new tag 'FSFE since 2001'.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h2>Transcript of Cory Doctorow's birthday wishes for the FSFE</h2>
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<blockquote>
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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
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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
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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
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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
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weathering the storm that we had all seen coming but that no one seemed
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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
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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
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wildfires would rage - they did. But whether, when they arose, when
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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
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behind proprietary walls, that we could lock up control of
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technological systems in the hands of four or five digital robber
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barons* who insisted that no government had jurisdiction over them and
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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
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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
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the organizations allied with us around the world, who joined to make
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that reality happen.</p>
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<p>Cory Doctorow</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>*'Robber baron' is a historical term originating in the US which
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criticizes practices of powerful businessmen that had destructive
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consequences for the society.</p>
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<h3>About "20 Years FSFE"</h3>
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<p> In 2021 the Free Software
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Foundation Europe turns 20. This means two decades of <a href="/about/about.html">empowering users to control technology</a>
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. </p> <figure> <img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/53aeebdafa0a0c83324dcafc1e4bef1c.png" alt="Banner with FSFE 20 years. FSFE since 2001"/> </figure>
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<p> Turning 20 is a time when we like to take a breath and to look back
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on the road we have come, to reflect the milestones we have passed,
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the successes we have achieved, the stories we have written and the
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moments that brought us together and that we will always joyfully
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remember. In 2021 we want to give momentum to the FSFE and even
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more to our pan-European community, the community that has formed
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and always will form the shoulders that our movement relies on.
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</p> <p> <strong> 20 Years FSFE is meant to be a celebration of
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everyone who has accompanied us in the past or still does. Thank
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you for your place in the structure of the FSFE today and for
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setting the foundation for the next decades of software freedom
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to come. </strong> </p>
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