IfYouAre

teacher

• create your lessons in free standards*
• teach the values of self-reliance and freedom
• encourage your students to share software
• do not use proprietary software
• if you want to teach spreadsheet call it spreadsheet and not Excel (every photocopying machine is not Xerox)
• if you want to teach word processor do not call it Word
• encourage self learning of students

student

• hacking is the best way to learn the art of programming
• refuse to learn branded software
• join a free software club and enjoy the culture of sharing

principal

• whereever syllabus doesn't prescribe a brand, choose free software
• support a club or cell for free software (keep it informal)
• do not buy any new proprietary software
• when you buy new machines, ask for preinstalled free software
• make sure your college/school website is w3c (link) compatible
• identify a few student friendly faculty
• train teachers in free software
• establish links with local free software hackers and advocates
• do not call a lecture as a power point presentation
• do not call a LCD projector a power point projector
• ask for justification when your colleagues ask your permission to buy a proprietary software

examiner

• do not ask questions that are too specific to a branded software application

head of the dept

• ask for strong justification when your colleagues ask your permission to buy a proprietary software, and make this an exception and not a norm

syllabus committee member

• eliminate proprietary brand names from syllabus
• include publically owned standards*
• languages that are not supported by other operating systems should not be included in the syllabus

minister of trade and commerce

• do not permit the sale of hardware for which free software drivers do not exist
• do not permit the sale of software that forces users to save documents in proprietary format
• do not confuse copyright, patents, and trademarks with the term intellectual property
• treat software on par with mathematics, I.e no patents for software
• DRM is digital restrictions managements, not rights managements

prime minister

president of a country

• freedom to encode and decode be added as a fundamental right

hacker

• keep it up, way to go

cracker

• use your creativity in constructive work, consider becoming a hacker

programmer

• program contains procedural and formal knowledge, publish it like any other knowledge
• keep it simple
• make it reusable
• add good documentation, to let other programmers understand the logic

owner of a software firm

• employ hackers to power your software needs
• encourage your programmers to share programs

chief justice

• right to information is meaningless without preserving the right to decode and encode knowledge resources

scientist

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===geologist=== ===mathematician===

journalist

• use cracker if you meant an intruder
• use hacker if you meant someone who explores creative possibilities
• say linux only if it is about the kernel, ans say GNU + Linux if it the OS
• carefully distinguish os from free software

film maker

• consider copyleft your film licensing after recovering and earned sufficient profit

Web Engineer

• use w3c standards

your a period* make it accessible

• reduce dependency of special tools to view, such as flash

own a proprietary software company

• dont use technology to restrict, i.e. avoid DRM
• program contains procedural and formal knowledge, publish it like any other knowledge
• preserve and uphold the conditions that produce knowledge, of which the most important is sharing

Bill Gates

• fix the file system of your OS and save the world from virus menace
• release your software under a free software license, and continue to rule the world, we will make you owr hero.
• dont use technology to restrict, i.e. avoid DRM

Steve Jobs

• release the rest of the code under APL, and get more support from hackers around the world
• dont use technology to restrict, i.e. avoid DRM