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<title>Reinhard Müller</title>
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<sidebar>
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<body class="bio">
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<p id="category"><a href="../interviews.en.html">Interviews</a></p>
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<h1>Interview with Reinhard Müller</h1>
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<blockquote>
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<img class="avatar" src="müller.jpg" alt="A photographic portrait" width="150" height="150" title="Reinhard Müller" />
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<p class="about">
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<em>"I'm a self-employed software developer living in the westernmost part of
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Austria.
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Back in the 1990s, I worked with several proprietary flavours of Unix in
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my job, so it was only a matter of time for me to stumble over
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GNU/Linux. My first contact must have been in 1998 or 1999, and I
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remember how the concept of Free Software made me curious about the
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ideas behind it. A friend pointed me to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/" target="_blanc">www.gnu.org</a>, and I read
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literally every single article I could find there. After that, it was
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clear for me that I absolutely agree with that philosophy and want to
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engage for it."</em>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="interview">
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<p class="question">What made you interested in the FSFE and motivated to
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support it?</p>
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<p>
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After deciding that I want to get involved in the Free Software
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movement, I spent a few months looking for a specific project or
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activity I would engage in. Just at that time, I read the announcement
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that the Free Software Foundation Europe is going to be founded, and I
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decided to make it one of the options to look at closer. And well, I got
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stuck to it.
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</p>
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<p class="question">In your engagement as a volunteer, what are you doing for FSFE?
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</p>
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<p>
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Currently, I'm mainly FSFE's accountant. I also maintain some lesser
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parts of FSFE's internally used software. However, sometimes I feel the
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urge to break free from my keyboard and screen, and then I participate
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in the FSFE booth team at events like FOSDEM or Grazer Linuxtage.
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</p>
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<p class="question">What is the most fun part about engaging for FSFE?
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</p>
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<p>
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Without any doubt, it's the people. It can be very rewarding to see all
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these smaller or larger victories in our fight for freedom in a digital
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society, or to break a T-shirt sales record at FOSDEM. But to be allowed
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to work with the motivated group of dedicated and smart people, who are the FSFE,
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that's simply priceless.
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</p>
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<p class="question">What is your favourite FSFE campaign at the moment?
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</p>
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<p>
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"I ♥ Free Software" has been my favourite campaign ever since it
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started. It's such a positive message, and it is all about appreciation
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and respect, which is so important these days.
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</p>
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<p class="question">As a long-term member of FSFE, what do you believe is one fundamental thing FSFE should always carry on doing?
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</p>
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<p>
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The FSFE has a tradition of sending out positive messages, and I think
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that's one of the main reasons for its success. Don't complain, change!
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Don't be *against* the status quo, be *for* a change! Don't criticise,
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help improving!
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</p>
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<p class="question">In one sentence: What is the biggest benefit of Free Software?
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</p>
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<p>It allows me (and everybody else) to exploit the virtually unlimited
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possibilities of that great invention called "computer", just as I like.
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</p>
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<p class="question">What is your favourite Free Software?
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</p>
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<p>The Free Software culture is a culture of cooperation. People build upon
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each other's work, in most cases even without ever having met or
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talked. This creates a whole universe of components which you can then
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arrange and use as you like. The question about the favourite Free
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Software is a bit like asking "what is your favourite LEGO brick?"; it
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is the countless possibilities this universe of components gives me that
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makes me really love Free Software.
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<br />
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But well, since you asked anyway: Python.
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</p>
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<p class="question">Is there anything you believe the FSFE should improve or begin
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working on next? Any wishes for the future?
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</p>
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<p>The FSFE has become very professional over the last years. The
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organisation meanwhile has a number of dedicated full-time employees,
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and virtually every activity of the FSFE is coordinated by one of them.
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This has contributed a lot to FSFE's success, and most of the things
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FSFE does now would never be possible with purely volunteer work.
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<br />
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We have now reached a point where we (and yes, that includes myself!)
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must pay constant attention to keep existing and potential volunteers
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involved in our work. We must help people all across Europe to
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understand how they can participate in our activities, how their
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personal engagement makes a change, and how there are so many different
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ways for them to be an integral part of a strong and powerful FSFE.
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</p>
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<br/>
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</div>
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<p>Find more interviews and videos with the FSFE community on our <a href="../interviews.html">interviews page</a>.</p>
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</body>
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