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The barrier of private life

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What does the Private Life mean?

Ancient Greek: to be deprived of public life

We ask: 'What is the private life deprived of?' Simply: of life, which is being cruelly absent. People are being also deprived of communication, of realising themselves. We ought to say: create your own history in personal way. Guy Debord: 'Perspectivas de modificaciones conscientes en la vida cotidiana' (Perspectives of conscient modifying of every day's life). International Situationist Magazine, number 6, August 1961

Private Software keeps its users in the state of division and impotence. Division, as each user is prohibited to help the others, to distribute copies; and impotence as the user doesn't have any possibility neither to modify the application nor to check what is it doing. Richard Stallman 2004