List of basic free software topics
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Free software is software which can be run, studied, examined, modified, and redistributed. This type of software, which was given its name in 1983, has also come to be known as "open-source software", "software libre", "FOSS", and "FLOSS". The term "Free" refers to it being unfettered, rather than being free of charge.
The free software movement was launched in 1983 in order to write free software replacements for the non-free software that society relied on. Examples of free software packages include GNU, the Linux kernel, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org, and on network servers, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Apache.
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[edit] Essence of Free Software
- Main article: Free Software
[edit] Branches of Free Software
[edit] History of Free Software
- Main article: History of free software
[edit] Basic Free Software concepts
- Open source
- Gratis versus Libre
- Open standard
- Free-software licence
- Open Source Definition
- Debian Social Contract
[edit] Free Software scholars
[edit] Leaders in Free Software
- Rick Adams
- Eric Allman
- Brian Behlendorf
- Keith Bostic
- Alan Cox
- Miguel de Icaza
- Theo de Raadt
- Jim Gettys
- Jon Hall
- Jordan Hubbard
- Lynne Jolitz
- William Jolitz
- Rasmus Lerdorf
- Marshall Kirk McKusick
- Ian Murdock
- Tim O'Reilly
- Keith Packard
- Brian Paul
- Bruce Perens
- Bob Scheifler
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Richard Stallman
- Linus Torvalds
- Andrew Tridgell
- Guido van Rossum
- Larry Wall
[edit] Free Software lists
- Main article: List of free software topics
- List of Linux distributions
- List of formerly proprietary software
- List of free software project directories
- Comparison of open source wireless drivers
- List of open source software packages
- List of trademarked open source software
- List of Ubuntu-based distributions
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[edit] External links
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- The Free Software Definition
- Transcripts about Free Software by FSFE
- Free Software Magazine, which bills itself as "a free magazine for the free software world."
- Free cultural works definition
- Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!, analysis of the advantages of OSS/FS by David A. Wheeler.
- FLOSSWorld - Free/Libre/Open-Source Software: Worldwide impact study, to find out more about the recently announced European Union funded study.
- Software Freedom: An Introduction, by Robert J. Chassell
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