Only if they have learned to value the freedom free software gives them, to value freedom in and of itself rather than the technical and practical convenience of specific free software.

只有当他们认识到了自由软件给予用户自由的价值，承认自由和他们本身的价值，而不是某个自由软件技术上或实用性上的便利。

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A GPL proponent might argue that a license for free software must be upgraded periodically since we cannot anticipate what new use models for free software might be developed that restrict freedom.

GPL 的鼓吹者也许会辩解说，“自由”软件的协议必须周期性的增加严苛的改进，因为我们不能预料到会产生什么样的限制他们所谓“自由”的使用模式。

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The paragraph that stands out to me is: "Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful.

这个章节所持的观点是：免费软件是一个自由的问题。 人们可以在各种社会需要时自由使用软件。

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But thankfully now in 2010, we're at the point where there's a whole lot of free and open source software that you can integrate into your projects that other nice people have made available.

不过幸好在2010年,现在有很多可用的开源,代码软件，你可以将其融合,到你的工程中。

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It's a little more involved on a PC but it's all free, the software you can download, and Linux in similar operating systems generally come with a compiler or you run a simple command to get it.

在PC机上有点复杂，但是它是免费的，你一般下载的软件，类似Linux的操作系统等等通常都需要,一个编译器，或者你可以运行一些简单的指令来获取。

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For the free software movement, however, non-free software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.

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The software is available for free elsewhere, and if users were interested in the free software, they probably already knew about it.

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