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-@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
-@c   2005, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-@ifclear justgnu
-@node Manifesto,, Microsoft Windows, Top
-@unnumbered The GNU Manifesto
-@end ifclear
-@ifset justgnu
-Copyright @copyright{} 1985, 1993, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
-2005, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU
-Manual'', and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.  A copy of the
-license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
-License'' in the Emacs manual.
-
-(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have freedom to copy and modify
-this GNU Manual, like GNU software.  Copies published by the Free
-Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.''
-
-This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free
-Documentation License.  If you want to distribute this document
-separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the
-license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license.
-
-@node Top
-@top The GNU Manifesto
-@end ifset
-
-@quotation
-The GNU Manifesto which appears below was written by Richard Stallman at
-the beginning of the GNU project, to ask for participation and support.
-For the first few years, it was updated in minor ways to account for
-developments, but now it seems best to leave it unchanged as most people
-have seen it.
-
-Since that time, we have learned about certain common misunderstandings
-that different wording could help avoid.  Footnotes added in 1993 help
-clarify these points.
-
-For up-to-date information about available GNU software, please see
-our web site, @uref{http://www.gnu.org}.  For software tasks and other
-ways to contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}.
-@end quotation
-
-@unnumberedsec What's GNU?  Gnu's Not Unix!
-
-GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete
-Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it
-away free to everyone who can use it.@footnote{The wording here was
-careless.  The intention was that nobody would have to pay for
-@emph{permission} to use the GNU system.  But the words don't make this
-clear, and people often interpret them as saying that copies of GNU
-should always be distributed at little or no charge.  That was never the
-intent; later on, the manifesto mentions the possibility of companies
-providing the service of distribution for a profit.  Subsequently I have
-learned to distinguish carefully between ``free'' in the sense of
-freedom and ``free'' in the sense of price.  Free software is software
-that users have the freedom to distribute and change.  Some users may
-obtain copies at no charge, while others pay to obtain copies---and if
-the funds help support improving the software, so much the better.  The
-important thing is that everyone who has a copy has the freedom to
-cooperate with others in using it.} Several other volunteers are helping
-me.  Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly
-needed.
-
-So far we have an Emacs text editor with Lisp for writing editor commands,
-a source level debugger, a yacc-compatible parser generator, a linker, and
-around 35 utilities.  A shell (command interpreter) is nearly completed.  A
-new portable optimizing C compiler has compiled itself and may be released
-this year.  An initial kernel exists but many more features are needed to
-emulate Unix.  When the kernel and compiler are finished, it will be
-possible to distribute a GNU system suitable for program development.  We
-will use @TeX{} as our text formatter, but an nroff is being worked on.  We
-will use the free, portable X window system as well.  After this we will
-add a portable Common Lisp, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of
-other things, plus on-line documentation.  We hope to supply, eventually,
-everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system, and more.
-
-GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix.
-We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience
-with other operating systems.  In particular, we plan to have longer
-file names, file version numbers, a crashproof file system, file name
-completion perhaps, terminal-independent display support, and perhaps
-eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs
-and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen.  Both C and Lisp will be
-available as system programming languages.  We will try to support UUCP,
-MIT Chaosnet, and Internet protocols for communication.
-
-GNU is aimed initially at machines in the 68000/16000 class with virtual
-memory, because they are the easiest machines to make it run on.  The extra
-effort to make it run on smaller machines will be left to someone who wants
-to use it on them.
-
-To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the `G' in the word `GNU'
-when it is the name of this project.
-
-@unnumberedsec Why I Must Write GNU
-
-I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must
-share it with other people who like it.  Software sellers want to divide
-the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with
-others.  I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.  I
-cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software
-license agreement.  For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence
-Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually
-they had gone too far: I could not remain in an institution where such
-things are done for me against my will.
-
-So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to
-put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to
-get along without any software that is not free.  I have resigned from the
-AI lab to deny MIT any legal excuse to prevent me from giving GNU away.
-
-@unnumberedsec Why GNU Will Be Compatible with Unix
-
-Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad.  The essential features
-of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think I can fill in what Unix lacks
-without spoiling them.  And a system compatible with Unix would be
-convenient for many other people to adopt.
-
-@unnumberedsec How GNU Will Be Available
-
-GNU is not in the public domain.  Everyone will be permitted to modify and
-redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its
-further redistribution.  That is to say, proprietary modifications will not
-be allowed.  I want to make sure that all versions of GNU remain free.
-
-@unnumberedsec Why Many Other Programmers Want to Help
-
-I have found many other programmers who are excited about GNU and want to
-help.
-
-Many programmers are unhappy about the commercialization of system
-software.  It may enable them to make more money, but it requires them to
-feel in conflict with other programmers in general rather than feel as
-comrades.  The fundamental act of friendship among programmers is the
-sharing of programs; marketing arrangements now typically used essentially
-forbid programmers to treat others as friends.  The purchaser of software
-must choose between friendship and obeying the law.  Naturally, many decide
-that friendship is more important.  But those who believe in law often do
-not feel at ease with either choice.  They become cynical and think that
-programming is just a way of making money.
-
-By working on and using GNU rather than proprietary programs, we can be
-hospitable to everyone and obey the law.  In addition, GNU serves as an
-example to inspire and a banner to rally others to join us in sharing.
-This can give us a feeling of harmony which is impossible if we use
-software that is not free.  For about half the programmers I talk to, this
-is an important happiness that money cannot replace.
-
-@unnumberedsec How You Can Contribute
-
-I am asking computer manufacturers for donations of machines and money.
-I'm asking individuals for donations of programs and work.
-
-One consequence you can expect if you donate machines is that GNU will run
-on them at an early date.  The machines should be complete, ready to use
-systems, approved for use in a residential area, and not in need of
-sophisticated cooling or power.
-
-I have found very many programmers eager to contribute part-time work for
-GNU.  For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard
-to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together.
-But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent.  A
-complete Unix system contains hundreds of utility programs, each of which
-is documented separately.  Most interface specifications are fixed by Unix
-compatibility.  If each contributor can write a compatible replacement for
-a single Unix utility, and make it work properly in place of the original
-on a Unix system, then these utilities will work right when put together.
-Even allowing for Murphy to create a few unexpected problems, assembling
-these components will be a feasible task.  (The kernel will require closer
-communication and will be worked on by a small, tight group.)
-
-If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a few people full or
-part time.  The salary won't be high by programmers' standards, but I'm
-looking for people for whom building community spirit is as important as
-making money.  I view this as a way of enabling dedicated people to devote
-their full energies to working on GNU by sparing them the need to make a
-living in another way.
-
-@unnumberedsec Why All Computer Users Will Benefit
-
-Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system
-software free, just like air.@footnote{This is another place I failed to
-distinguish carefully between the two different meanings of ``free.''
-The statement as it stands is not false---you can get copies of GNU
-software at no charge, from your friends or over the net.  But it does
-suggest the wrong idea.}
-
-This means much more than just saving everyone the price of a Unix license.
-It means that much wasteful duplication of system programming effort will
-be avoided.  This effort can go instead into advancing the state of the
-art.
-
-Complete system sources will be available to everyone.  As a result, a user
-who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself,
-or hire any available programmer or company to make them for him.  Users
-will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the
-sources and is in sole position to make changes.
-
-Schools will be able to provide a much more educational environment by
-encouraging all students to study and improve the system code.  Harvard's
-computer lab used to have the policy that no program could be installed on
-the system if its sources were not on public display, and upheld it by
-actually refusing to install certain programs.  I was very much inspired by
-this.
-
-Finally, the overhead of considering who owns the system software and what
-one is or is not entitled to do with it will be lifted.
-
-Arrangements to make people pay for using a program, including licensing of
-copies, always incur a tremendous cost to society through the cumbersome
-mechanisms necessary to figure out how much (that is, which programs) a
-person must pay for.  And only a police state can force everyone to obey
-them.  Consider a space station where air must be manufactured at great
-cost: charging each breather per liter of air may be fair, but wearing the
-metered gas mask all day and all night is intolerable even if everyone can
-afford to pay the air bill.  And the TV cameras everywhere to see if you
-ever take the mask off are outrageous.  It's better to support the air
-plant with a head tax and chuck the masks.
-
-Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as
-breathing, and as productive.  It ought to be as free.
-
-@unnumberedsec Some Easily Rebutted Objections to GNU's Goals
-
-@quotation
-``Nobody will use it if it is free, because that means they can't rely
-on any support.''
-
-``You have to charge for the program to pay for providing the
-support.''
-@end quotation
-
-If people would rather pay for GNU plus service than get GNU free without
-service, a company to provide just service to people who have obtained GNU
-free ought to be profitable.@footnote{Several such companies now exist.}
-
-We must distinguish between support in the form of real programming work
-and mere handholding.  The former is something one cannot rely on from a
-software vendor.  If your problem is not shared by enough people, the
-vendor will tell you to get lost.
-
-If your business needs to be able to rely on support, the only way is to
-have all the necessary sources and tools.  Then you can hire any available
-person to fix your problem; you are not at the mercy of any individual.
-With Unix, the price of sources puts this out of consideration for most
-businesses.  With GNU this will be easy.  It is still possible for there to
-be no available competent person, but this problem cannot be blamed on
-distribution arrangements.  GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems,
-only some of them.
-
-Meanwhile, the users who know nothing about computers need handholding:
-doing things for them which they could easily do themselves but don't know
-how.
-
-Such services could be provided by companies that sell just hand-holding
-and repair service.  If it is true that users would rather spend money and
-get a product with service, they will also be willing to buy the service
-having got the product free.  The service companies will compete in quality
-and price; users will not be tied to any particular one.  Meanwhile, those
-of us who don't need the service should be able to use the program without
-paying for the service.
-
-@quotation
-``You cannot reach many people without advertising,
-and you must charge for the program to support that.''
-
-``It's no use advertising a program people can get free.''
-@end quotation
-
-There are various forms of free or very cheap publicity that can be used to
-inform numbers of computer users about something like GNU.  But it may be
-true that one can reach more microcomputer users with advertising.  If this
-is really so, a business which advertises the service of copying and
-mailing GNU for a fee ought to be successful enough to pay for its
-advertising and more.  This way, only the users who benefit from the
-advertising pay for it.
-
-On the other hand, if many people get GNU from their friends, and such
-companies don't succeed, this will show that advertising was not really
-necessary to spread GNU.  Why is it that free market advocates don't
-want to let the free market decide this?@footnote{The Free Software
-Foundation raises most of its funds from a distribution service,
-although it is a charity rather than a company.  If @emph{no one}
-chooses to obtain copies by ordering from the FSF, it will be unable
-to do its work.  But this does not mean that proprietary restrictions
-are justified to force every user to pay.  If a small fraction of all
-the users order copies from the FSF, that is sufficient to keep the FSF
-afloat.  So we ask users to choose to support us in this way.  Have you
-done your part?}
-
-@quotation
-``My company needs a proprietary operating system
-to get a competitive edge.''
-@end quotation
-
-GNU will remove operating system software from the realm of competition.
-You will not be able to get an edge in this area, but neither will your
-competitors be able to get an edge over you.  You and they will compete in
-other areas, while benefiting mutually in this one.  If your business is
-selling an operating system, you will not like GNU, but that's tough on
-you.  If your business is something else, GNU can save you from being
-pushed into the expensive business of selling operating systems.
-
-I would like to see GNU development supported by gifts from many
-manufacturers and users, reducing the cost to each.@footnote{A group of
-computer companies recently pooled funds to support maintenance of the
-GNU C Compiler.}
-
-@quotation
-``Don't programmers deserve a reward for their creativity?''
-@end quotation
-
-If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution.  Creativity can
-be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the
-results.  If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative
-programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict
-the use of these programs.
-
-@quotation
-``Shouldn't a programmer be able to ask for a reward for his creativity?''
-@end quotation
-
-There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize
-one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.  But
-the means customary in the field of software today are based on
-destruction.
-
-Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is
-destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that
-the program can be used.  This reduces the amount of wealth that humanity
-derives from the program.  When there is a deliberate choice to restrict,
-the harmful consequences are deliberate destruction.
-
-The reason a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become
-wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the
-mutual destructiveness.  This is Kantian ethics; or, the Golden Rule.
-Since I do not like the consequences that result if everyone hoards
-information, I am required to consider it wrong for one to do so.
-Specifically, the desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not
-justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
-
-@quotation
-``Won't programmers starve?''
-@end quotation
-
-I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer.  Most of us cannot
-manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces.  But
-we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on the
-street making faces, and starving.  We do something else.
-
-But that is the wrong answer because it accepts the questioner's implicit
-assumption: that without ownership of software, programmers cannot possibly
-be paid a cent.  Supposedly it is all or nothing.
-
-The real reason programmers will not starve is that it will still be
-possible for them to get paid for programming; just not paid as much as
-now.
-
-Restricting copying is not the only basis for business in software.  It is
-the most common basis because it brings in the most money.  If it were
-prohibited, or rejected by the customer, software business would move to
-other bases of organization which are now used less often.  There are
-always numerous ways to organize any kind of business.
-
-Probably programming will not be as lucrative on the new basis as it is
-now.  But that is not an argument against the change.  It is not considered
-an injustice that sales clerks make the salaries that they now do.  If
-programmers made the same, that would not be an injustice either.  (In
-practice they would still make considerably more than that.)
-
-@quotation
-``Don't people have a right to control how their creativity is used?''
-@end quotation
-
-``Control over the use of one's ideas'' really constitutes control over
-other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more
-difficult.
-
-People who have studied the issue of intellectual property
-rights@footnote{In the 80s I had not yet realized how confusing it was
-to speak of ``the issue'' of ``intellectual property.''  That term is
-obviously biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together
-various disparate laws which raise very different issues.  Nowadays I
-urge people to reject the term ``intellectual property'' entirely,
-lest it lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent
-issue.  The way to be clear is to discuss patents, copyrights, and
-trademarks separately.  See
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml} for more
-explanation of how this term spreads confusion and bias.} carefully
-(such as lawyers) say that there is no intrinsic right to intellectual
-property.  The kinds of supposed intellectual property rights that the
-government recognizes were created by specific acts of legislation for
-specific purposes.
-
-For example, the patent system was established to encourage inventors to
-disclose the details of their inventions.  Its purpose was to help society
-rather than to help inventors.  At the time, the life span of 17 years for
-a patent was short compared with the rate of advance of the state of the
-art.  Since patents are an issue only among manufacturers, for whom the
-cost and effort of a license agreement are small compared with setting up
-production, the patents often do not do much harm.  They do not obstruct
-most individuals who use patented products.
-
-The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors
-frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.  This
-practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived
-even in part.  The copyright system was created expressly for the purpose
-of encouraging authorship.  In the domain for which it was
-invented---books, which could be copied economically only on a printing
-press---it did little harm, and did not obstruct most of the individuals
-who read the books.
-
-All intellectual property rights are just licenses granted by society
-because it was thought, rightly or wrongly, that society as a whole would
-benefit by granting them.  But in any particular situation, we have to ask:
-are we really better off granting such license?  What kind of act are we
-licensing a person to do?
-
-The case of programs today is very different from that of books a hundred
-years ago.  The fact that the easiest way to copy a program is from one
-neighbor to another, the fact that a program has both source code and
-object code which are distinct, and the fact that a program is used rather
-than read and enjoyed, combine to create a situation in which a person who
-enforces a copyright is harming society as a whole both materially and
-spiritually; in which a person should not do so regardless of whether the
-law enables him to.
-
-@quotation
-``Competition makes things get done better.''
-@end quotation
-
-The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we
-encourage everyone to run faster.  When capitalism really works this way,
-it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works
-this way.  If the runners forget why the reward is offered and become
-intent on winning, no matter how, they may find other strategies---such as,
-attacking other runners.  If the runners get into a fist fight, they will
-all finish late.
-
-Proprietary and secret software is the moral equivalent of runners in a
-fist fight.  Sad to say, the only referee we've got does not seem to
-object to fights; he just regulates them (``For every ten yards you run,
-you can fire one shot'').  He really ought to break them up, and penalize
-runners for even trying to fight.
-
-@quotation
-``Won't everyone stop programming without a monetary incentive?''
-@end quotation
-
-Actually, many people will program with absolutely no monetary incentive.
-Programming has an irresistible fascination for some people, usually the
-people who are best at it.  There is no shortage of professional musicians
-who keep at it even though they have no hope of making a living that way.
-
-But really this question, though commonly asked, is not appropriate to the
-situation.  Pay for programmers will not disappear, only become less.  So
-the right question is, will anyone program with a reduced monetary
-incentive?  My experience shows that they will.
-
-For more than ten years, many of the world's best programmers worked at the
-Artificial Intelligence Lab for far less money than they could have had
-anywhere else.  They got many kinds of non-monetary rewards: fame and
-appreciation, for example.  And creativity is also fun, a reward in itself.
-
-Then most of them left when offered a chance to do the same interesting
-work for a lot of money.
-
-What the facts show is that people will program for reasons other than
-riches; but if given a chance to make a lot of money as well, they will
-come to expect and demand it.  Low-paying organizations do poorly in
-competition with high-paying ones, but they do not have to do badly if the
-high-paying ones are banned.
-
-@quotation
-``We need the programmers desperately.  If they demand that we
-stop helping our neighbors, we have to obey.''
-@end quotation
-
-You're never so desperate that you have to obey this sort of demand.
-Remember: millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute!
-
-@quotation
-``Programmers need to make a living somehow.''
-@end quotation
-
-In the short run, this is true.  However, there are plenty of ways that
-programmers could make a living without selling the right to use a program.
-This way is customary now because it brings programmers and businessmen the
-most money, not because it is the only way to make a living.  It is easy to
-find other ways if you want to find them.  Here are a number of examples.
-
-A manufacturer introducing a new computer will pay for the porting of
-operating systems onto the new hardware.
-
-The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could also
-employ programmers.
-
-People with new ideas could distribute programs as
-freeware@footnote{Subsequently we have discovered the need to
-distinguish between ``free software'' and ``freeware''.  The term
-``freeware'' means software you are free to redistribute, but usually
-you are not free to study and change the source code, so most of it is
-not free software.  See
-@uref{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html} for more
-explanation.}, asking for donations from satisfied users, or selling
-hand-holding services.  I have met people who are already working this
-way successfully.
-
-Users with related needs can form users' groups, and pay dues.  A group
-would contract with programming companies to write programs that the
-group's members would like to use.
-
-All sorts of development can be funded with a Software Tax:
-
-@quotation
-Suppose everyone who buys a computer has to pay x percent of
-the price as a software tax.  The government gives this to
-an agency like the NSF to spend on software development.
-
-But if the computer buyer makes a donation to software development
-himself, he can take a credit against the tax.  He can donate to
-the project of his own choosing---often, chosen because he hopes to
-use the results when it is done.  He can take a credit for any amount
-of donation up to the total tax he had to pay.
-
-The total tax rate could be decided by a vote of the payers of
-the tax, weighted according to the amount they will be taxed on.
-
-The consequences:
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-The computer-using community supports software development.
-@item
-This community decides what level of support is needed.
-@item
-Users who care which projects their share is spent on
-can choose this for themselves.
-@end itemize
-@end quotation
-
-In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity
-world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living.
-People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such
-as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required
-tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid
-prospecting.  There will be no need to be able to make a living from
-programming.
-
-We have already greatly reduced the amount of work that the whole society
-must do for its actual productivity, but only a little of this has
-translated itself into leisure for workers because much nonproductive
-activity is required to accompany productive activity.  The main causes of
-this are bureaucracy and isometric struggles against competition.  Free
-software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software
-production.  We must do this, in order for technical gains in productivity
-to translate into less work for us.
-
-@ignore
-   arch-tag: 21eb38f8-6fa0-480a-91cd-f3dab7148542
-@end ignore