Re: [Audio-video] http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2013/Samuel_Thibault_Jean-Philippe_Mengual-Freedom_0_for_everybody_really_.text

[Richard Stallman]

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    You misunderstood the problem: the problem isn t that France did use a
    free software/non accessible software, the problem is that this free
    software *weren t accessible*, while it should have been. We can t ask
    people to use proprietary software because it s accessible, as we can t
    ask to use non-accessible software because it s free.

We would support your campaign to convince free software
developers to design initially for accessibility;
but when you claim that lack of inaccessibility is just
as bad as oppressing every user, we have to oppose you.
A free program that lacks accessibility is much better
than any proprietary program.

Only a fraction of people need accessibility, but everyone needs
freedom.  It is better to free most people than free no one.

We reject the idea that we should refuse to free anyone
until the day that we can free everyone.
We will free those we can free with whatever we have got.
Our chances of helping the disabled some day are bigger
if we strengthen our movement as much as we can.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.