Computers!
ni'o skami

I've loved them since I've been able to afford to have my own,
.i ze'e prami ba le nu mi pu'i vecnu lo go'i po mi po'o

right back in the beginning of the.. the modern home computer era...
ca le nu cfari fa le zdani skami cedra

the 1980s. 
de'i li pa-so-bi-ji'i

And I've owned a large number of different kinds of computer
.i-je mi ponse lei so'ikle skami

and I've expressed publicly loyalty to this kind, or that kind.  
.i-je mi gubni cusku lo du'u mi plinei so'o da

But, recently, my mind has turned, as many people's have, to this whole business of... free software.
.i ku'i zi ku mi cu co'a so'irpresmi pensi tu'a lo zifre samselpla

And there's a lot of confusion about what this means,
.i tu'a lo se go'i cfipu so'i da

and I'd like to help clear it up,
.i .ai mi tolfi'ugau

because this happens to be a year of celebration, 
mu'i le nu lo za'i le cabna'a cu nunsla

and I want to help us all celebrate it, 
cu mukti lo nu ro ma'a salci

and to look forward to the future of free software.
.e lo nu pacna lo nu cenba kei so'i da

If you have, I don't know... 
ni'o da'i zvati lo zdani .y.

plumbing in your house,
fa lo jaurseltcana mu'a

it may be that you don't understand it,
.i se gu do jimpe

but you may have a friend who does.
gi la'a-cu'i lo pendo be do cu go'i

And they may suggest you move a pipe here,
.i-jo da'i stidi lo nu do muvgau lo vi flevau

a stop cock there, a valve somewhere else.
.e lo va flefanta .e lo vu flezu'i

And you're not breaking the law by doing that, are you?  
.i pau-nai .ie-pei na zekri fa lo nu go'i

Because it's your house and you own the plumbing.
ki'u lo nu do ponse lo zdani .e lo jauseltcana

You can't do that with your computer.
no'i lo skami po do cu frica

You can't actually really fiddle with your operating system.
.i da'i-nai tolcru lo nu stika lo do sazysamselpla

And you certainly can't share any ideas you have about your operating system with other people,
.i-je ju'o tolcru lo nu dunda lo sidbo be lo do sazysamselpla bei do

because Apple and Microsoft, who run the two most popular operating systems,
ki'u lo nu la .maikrosoft. noi ke'a jo'u la .apl. zbasu lo re pilno cafne traji sazysemselpla

are very firm about the fact that they own that,
cu tolranda cusku lo se du'u ponse ro lo nu curmi lo nu go'i

and no one else can have anything to do with it.
kei kei .e lo se du'u tu'a lo drata cu se tolcru

Now, this may seem natural to you - 
.i ju'o-cu'i simlu lo ka vrude kei do

"Why shouldn't they?"
.i-je cu'u do mu'a ma krinu lo nu palci

But, actually, why can't you do with it what you like?
.i ku'i pau-nai ki'u ma tolcru

And why can't the community at large alter, and improve, and share?
.i-je pau-nai ki'u ma tolcru lo nu lo selklu cu stika je xaurgau je dunda

That's how science works, after all....
.i-se-ki'u-bo lo saske cu frica

All knowledge is free.
.i tu'a ro lo selju'o cu se zifre

And all knowledge is shared in good science.
.i ro selju'o cu se dunda va'o lo xamgu saske

If it isn't, it's bad science,
.i go na go'i gi xlali bo saske

and it's a kind of tyranny.
je ke te pinfu klesi

And this is really where it all starts,
.i ti je'u krasi

with a man called Richard Stallman.
.i lo go'i goi ry. cu prenu poi zoi .gy. Richard Stallman .gy. cmene 

He decided, twenty five years ago to... almost to this very date...
.i ry. pu nu'i lu'a lo mitre be li re-mu-ji'i .y.

he decided to write a whole new operating system from the ground up.  
cu jdice lo du'u finti lo sazysamselpla fo no da pe'a

He called it GNU, which stands for "GNU's not Unix" -- 
.i ry. se cmene zoi .gy. GNU .gy. no'u zo .gyNUS. poi ke'a se smuni zoi .gy. GNU's Not Unix .gy.

because it isn't.
poi ke'a se smuni lu la .gynus. na du la .iuniks. li'u ki'u lo nu na du

It's similar to Unix, in many ways,
.i simsa la .iuniks. ma'i so'i da

but every element of it, every... every module, every little section of the code
.i ku'i ro lo pagbu be le samselpla

(and it's a gigantic code because it's to run on many many platforms)
to lo samselpla cu tcetce barda ki'u lo nu sazri so'i lo skami klesi toi

is run by the community, is run by coders out there,
cu ponse je sarji lo drata sampla

who are welcomed into the GNU community, to help improve the software.
poi lo selklu pe la .gyNUS. cu friti lo nu ke'a kansa fi lo nu sidju lo nu xaurgau lo samselpla

Um,  every "distro," as they're called, every distribution of GNU, um,
.i .y. ro me la'e zoi .gy. distro .gy. no'u lo samselplabakfu .y.

is tested, and... and worked upon, and refined
cu se cipra je se gunka je se xaurgau

by people whose only interest is in creating the perfect operating system
lo te mukti be lo nu po'o zbasu lo prane sazysamselpla

that can be used across the spectrum of platforms by as many users as possible.
poi ke'a ka'e sazri ro lo so'i skami klesi gau ro lo pilno poi le te mukti cu kakne

Now, there came a time when the kernel, which is the sort of central part of an operating system, needed to be written.
ni'o ca da lo mi'irsazysamselpla noi ke'a bongu pe'a fi lo sazysamselpla ku'o goi my. cu nitcu lo nu se zbasu

And a man called Linus Torvalds,
.i lo se cmene be zoi .svy. Linus Torvalds .svy. goi ly.

of whom you may have heard,
noi la'a-ru'e ke'a slabu do

wrote the kernel.
ku'o pu finti my.

And it was named after his name, um,  Linus.
.i my. fu'icme .y. fi ly.

It was named as Linux (British English pronunciation),
fe la'o .gy. Linux .gy. no'u zo .lainyks.

or Linux (American English pronunciation) as some people pronounce it.
.e zo .lnyks. poi da bacru ke'a

And Linux is the kernel that runs within GNU. 
.i-je la .lnyks. mi'irsazysamselpla la .gyNUS.

And I am here, as it were,
no'i lo krinu be lo nu mi zvati ti

simply to remind you that GNU and Linux are the twin pillars of the free software community -
cu nu .ai ke'u ciksi fi do fe lo nu la .gaNUS. joi la .lnyks. cu sarji lo zifre samselpla kulnu

people who believe, and this is the important part,
be lo krici to dei vajni toi

that software should be free,
lo du'u xamgu fa lo nu lo samselpla cu zifre

that the using community should be allowed to adapt it,
.e lo nu lo pilno selklu cu stika

and adopt it, to change it, to improve it, to spread those improvements around the community,
.e lo nu pilno je galfi je xaurgau je dunda loi jalge lo selklu

like science.
.i saske simsa go'i

That's basically what it's saying.
.i sa'u cusku lo se du'u go'i

In the same way that good scientists share everything and all knowledge is open and free,
.i va'i simsa lo xamgu skepre lo ka ce'u dunda ro da .e lo ka ro selju'o cu zifre

so it should be with an operating system.
.i lo sazysamselpla ji'a cu co'e

So if you are supporter of GNU,
.i go da'i do djica lo nu sarji la .gyNUS.

if you are supporter of Linux, and of the Free Software Foundation,
.e la .lnyks. .e la .fysyfyn.

"Well, what can I do?" you are probably wondering.
gi do tolbitpei lu mi ka'e zukte ma li'u la'a

The most obvious thing you can do is use a GNU/Linux operating system on your own computer.
.i lo filsi'o traji cu nu lo do skami cu pilno lo sazysamselpla pe la .gyNUS. .e la .lnyks. gau do

It's a lot easier that you might think!
.i zmadu lo ka ce'u frili lo si'o pilno kei be do la'a

Go to gnu.org and see if you can find a distribution that suits you.
.i .e'o do sisku lo samplabakfu poi ke'a xamgu do ku'o la'o .url. gnu.org .url.

Probably, if you like a good graphical user interface,
.i la'a do nelci ga-nai lo pixra sazyci'e

something like g-New-Sense, gNewSense.
gi .gy. g-New-Sense .gy. no'u la'o .gy. gNewSense .gy. zi'e no'u la .gyniusens.

You'll see it there on gnu.org.
.i da'i do viska vi la'o .url. gnu.org .url.

Or, if you are a really smart cookie,
.i-ja go do mutce mencre

you might want to do your own coding.
gi la'a do sampla

You might want to contribute to the sum of knowledge
.i-je ju'o-cu'i do termu'i lo nu jmina fi lo selju'o

that makes GNU and Linux what they are.
poi ke'a du la .gyNUS. joi la .lnyks.

Either way,
.i-se-ju

I hope you that will join me
.a'o do kansa mi

in wishing GNU a very happy 25th birthday.
lo nu pacna lo nu la .gyNUS. mutce gleki lo nu salci lo nu jbena

Let's do that now, actually.
.i .ai ja'a ca go'i

So, happy birthday, GNU!
.i ko gleki salci doi .gyNUS.

25 years old.
.i nanca li re-mu

The operating system of the future.
.i sazysamselpla be lo balvi

Freedom!
.i .ui nunzi'e

Yum, chocolatey/chocolately good!
.i .oi-nai xamgu cakla se vrusi

The tastiest operating system in the world...
.i lo traji be lo ka vrusi be lo plini ku sazysamselpla

and it's all free.
cu mulno zifre .u'a