-<p>But user freedom does not always stem from software freedom. Indeed, as free software has grown in economic and political importance, it has attracted the attention of some who wish to reap the benefits of free software while keeping users restricted and dependent.</p>
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-<p>Google, Facebook, and other titans of the web economy have built their businesses on free software. And they are not merely free riders in their usage of this resource; in many cases, these firms freely share at least some of the code that runs on their services and invest substantial resources in creating or enhancing that code. Each user of a “free software” network service can have a copy of software that allows the FSD’s four freedoms. But unless these users run the web service themselves – something that may be technically or economically infeasible – the users remain at the whim of the firm who does run their copy. “Software as a Service” (SaaS) – or software provided via “the cloud” – is entirely compatible with the idea of software that is free. But in that users of the service cannot change the software or use it as they wish without the permission, and oversight, of their service provider, SaaS users are as at least as dependent and vulnerable as they would be if the code were closed.</p>
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-<p>Google’s Chrome OS is an attempt to build an operating system designed that gets users online and connected to services like Google Docs for users to do most of their computing. When Google announced Chrome OS, many in the free software community celebrated; Chrome OS is based on GNU/Linux, is almost entirely free software, and has Google’s backing. But the goal of Chrome OS is to change where users’ computing happens, by replacing applications a user might run on their own computer with SaaS. Every move from a piece of “desktop” free software to a SaaS service is a move from a situation where a user had control over his or her software to a situation where users have very little control at all. For example, Google's use of free software in its SaaS services enables it to monitor all uses and add or remove features at will. By focusing on the freedom of the software and not the users, many free software supporters failed to appreciate this troubling dynamic.</p>
+<p>El sistema operativo Chrome OS de Google es un intento de construir un sistema operativo diseñado para conectar a los usuarios a la red y a servicios como Google Docs para hacer la mayoría de su informática. Cuando Google anunció Chrome OS, muchos en la comunidad del software libre lo celebraron; Chrome OS está basado en GNU/Linux, es casi enteramente software libre, y tiene el respaldo de Google. Pero el objetivo de Chrome OS es cambiar dónde se realiza la informática de los usuarios, reemplazando aplicaciones que un usuario podría usar en su propio ordenador con software como servicio. Cada movimiento de una pieza del "escritorio" de software libre a un servicio SaaS es un movimiento de una situación donde el usuario tenía el control de su software a una situación donde los usuarios tienen muy poco control. Por ejemplo, el uso de software libre por parte de Google en sus servicios SaaS le permite monitorizar todos los usos y agregar o quitar características a voluntad. Al poner el foco en la libertad del software y no en la de los usuarios, muchos partidarios del software libre han errado en apreciar esta dinámica problemática.</p>