Free Software

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  • The Free Software Movement is the belief in user's rights to access and modify software at their discretion. Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation is credited with starting the movement in 1983 with his GNU Project.http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html Free Software (freeware) is software anyone can download and use for free. Shareware, on the other hand, is a try-and-buy software - it is not free. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Freeware_vs_Shareware This Mahalo page collects links to websites offering free downloads of software (see below), as well as links to pages that discuss the the philosophy of the Free Software Movement.ZNet: Free Software as a Social Movement (December 18, 2005)
  • Free Software Foundation

    The Free Software Foundation was founded in order to foster user rights in the area of software, as well as knowledge in general. The FSF defines free software as a piece of software whose license grants everyone the right to execute, analyze, modify and redistribute software freely as they wish.
  • Free Software vs. Open Source

    The Free Software Movement differs from Open Source in that the Free Software Movement is a philosophy for developing software to the benefit of all people while Open Source views the argument from a more technical approach.
  • Essential Freedoms of Free Software Movement

    1. Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the software as you wish.ZNet: Free Software as a Social Movement (December 18, 2005)
    2. Freedom 1 is the freedom to study and change the source code as you wish.ZNet: Free Software as a Social Movement (December 18, 2005)
    3. Freedom 2 is the freedom to copy and distribute the software as you wish.ZNet: Free Software as a Social Movement (December 18, 2005)
    4. Freedom 3 is the freedom to create and distribute modified versions as you wish.ZNet: Free Software as a Social Movement (December 18, 2005)

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