This document discusses different groups that are considered "free users" in support of open access, free and open source software and standards. It outlines who comprises each group, the issues and concerns they face, and the potential power and influence they can wield to advance these causes. The groups discussed include enthusiasts, working class, programmers, FLOSS companies, developing countries, solidarity movements, regular users, culture, education, research, and ecological movements. The document advocates that by 2020 these communities will have a stronger concept of freedom and ways to take action and build support across related issues.

1. Who are the free users?
Mikael von Knorring
● micke@socialist.nu
● Twitter: Micke_vK
● Blog: Vänsterteknik
- a strategy discussion

2. Who are the free users?
Enthusiasts
Everyone else

3. Who are the free users?
Everyone else

4. Who are the free users?
?
Owning
Class

5. Who are the free users?
Working
Class
Owning
Class

6. Who are the free users?
Working
Class
Who
● The people doing
the work
Issues
● Poverty
● Workplace exploitation
● Democracy
Power
● Strike
● Build somethiing better

7. Who are the free users?
?
Proprietary
Corporations

8. Who are the free users?
Programmers
Who
● Corporate employees
● Students
● Researchers
Issues
● Free software
● Software patents
● Open standards
Power
● Develop stuff
● Influence investments
● ”We know what we're doing”

9. Who are the free users?
FLOSS Companies
Developing
countries

10. Who are the free users?
FLOSS
companies
Who
● Local companies
● Larger ones
● Companies using
some FLOSS
Issues
● Free software
● Software patents
● Open standards
Power
● Develop stuff
● Influence investments
● Lobby for good
● ”We're no communists”

11. Who are the free users?
Developing
countries
Who
● India, China, Brazil
● Small countries
● Manufacturing companies
Issues
● Patent trouble
● Artificial poverty
● Free software
Power
● Develop stuff
● Influence investments
● Negotiating power

12. Who are the free users?
Education
Research
Regular
users
Culture Solidarity
movements
Ecological
movements

13. Who are the free users?
Free software
● Open standards
● Software patents
● Free hardware

14. Who are the free users?
Free knowledge
● Wikipedia
● Free textbooks
● Open Access
● Patent reform
Free communication
● User control over data
● Data retention
● Net neutrality
Free software
● Open standards
● Software patents
● Free hardware
Free culture
● Remix culture
● File sharing
● Creative Commons
Free users

15. Who are the free users?
Education
Research
Regular
users
Culture Solidarity
movements
Ecological
movements
Open Access
Free works
File sharing
Patent trouble
Free communication
Open standards

16. Who are the free users?
Where to be heading
● By 2020, in all these communities,
people have a strong concept of freedom
● People know their entrypoint and
take action
● People have a lot of sympathy for these
connected freedom issues as well

17. Who are the free users?
Solidarity
movements
Who
● Charities
● Anti-imperialists
● Aid organization
Issues
● Artificial poverty
● Patent trouble
● Free software
● Free hardware
● Free communication
Power
● Lobbying
● Transmit arguments from
developing countries
● Funding implementations

18. Who are the free users?
Regular
users
Who
● Home users
● Office users
Issues
● File sharing
● Proprietary trouble
● Consumer rights
● Free communication
Power
● User base?
● Defy illegitimate laws?
● Force open standards?
● ”Knowledgeable users
demand freedom”

19. Who are the free users?
Culture
Who
● Artists, fans, geeks
● Just about anyone
● Institutions
Issues
● File sharing
● Free expression
● Free works
● Commodity trouble
Power
● Try participation
● New economic models
● Deepen the meaning
of free

20. Who are the free users?
Education
Who
● Teachers
● Students
● Librarians
● Study circles
Issues
● Wikipedia
● Free textbooks
● Open Access
● Free educational software
● Free communication
Power
● Try participation
● Funding development

21. Who are the free users?
Research
Who
● At universities
● In business
Issues
● Open Access
● Patent trouble
Power
● Funding development
● ”For progress, research
needs to be free”

22. Who are the free users?
Ecological
movements
Who
● Activists
● Researchers
● Employees
Issues
● Patent trouble
● Commodity trouble
● Free hardware
Power
● Funding development
● ”Proprietary means wasteful”

23. Who are the free users?
Education
Research
Regular
users
Culture Solidarity
movements
Ecological
movements
Open Access
Free works
File sharing
Patent trouble
Free communication
Open standards

24. Who are the free users?
Education
Research
Regular
users
Culture Solidarity
movements
Ecological
movements
Open Access
Free works
File sharing
Patent trouble
Free communication
Open standards
ACTA

25. Who are the free users?
Education
Research
Regular
users
Culture Solidarity
movements
Ecological
movements
File sharing
Patent trouble
Free communication
ACTA

26. Who are the free users?
?
Who else?

27. Who are the free users?
Unions
?
Who
● Blue collar
● White collar
Issues
● Free communication?
● Safety issues?
Power
● Negotiating power
at the workplace

28. Who are the free users?
Womens
Rights
?
Who
● Feminist activists
Issues
● Artificial poverty?
● Free expression?
Power
● Breaching the male
geek wall

29. Who are the free users?
Education
Research
Regular
users
Culture Solidarity
movements
Ecological
movements
Open Access
Free works
File sharing
Patent trouble
Free communication
Open standards

30. Who are the free users?
Thanks for listening!
● micke@socialist.nu
● Twitter: Micke_vK
● Blog: Vänsterteknik