[Trisquel-users] Re : Steam client coming to Linux. Will you guys still hate it?

[magicbanana]

Here is a well known example: the Web. The Web follows a client-server  
architecture, i.e., a Web client (Abrowser, Internet Explorer, etc.) queries  
Web pages to a Web server (Apache, Microsoft's Internet Information Services,  
etc.) that, well, serves them. As you see the client and the server are  
separate programs. They can either be free, i.e., grants the four fundamental  
freedoms to their respective users (the guy behind the Web client and the guy  
owning the Web server), or not. Above, the first examples (between  
parentheses) are free software; the second ones are proprietary software. If  
you are browsing the Web and value your freedoms, you will use a free Web  
client (e.g., Abrowser) but do not care about the free/proprietary nature of  
the Web servers you query. Indeed, those Web servers do not do your  
computing. They do the computing of their owners who should care about using  
a free Web sever (e.g., Apache).