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• Free software is a matter of freedom, not cost. ... The word `free' in free software has a similar meaning as in free speech, free people and free country and should not be confused with its other meaning associated with zero-cost. Think of free software as software which is free of encumbrances, not necessarily free of cost. Think of it as swatantra software.
• FSF India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India. Our goal is to ensure the long term adoption of free software, and aim for the day when all software will be free. This includes educating people about software freedom and convincing them that it is the freedom that matters. We regard non-free software as a problem to be solved, not as a solution to any problem.
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• After the Netscape announcement broke in February 1998 I did a lot of thinking about the next phase -- the serious push to get "free software" accepted in the mainstream corporate world. And I realized we have a serious problem with "free software" itself.
• Specifically, we have a problem with the term "free software", itself, not the concept. ...
• First, it's confusing; the term "free" is very ambiguous (something the Free Software Foundation's propaganda has to wrestle with constantly). Does "free" mean "no money charged?" or does it mean "free to be modified by anyone", or something else?.
• We suggest that everywhere we as a culture have previously talked about "free software", the label should be changed to "open source". Open-source software. ...
• Bruce Perens has applied to register "open source" as a trademark and hold it through Software in the Public Interest. The trademark conditions will be known as the ``Open Source Definition'', essentially the same as the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
• In accordance with normal English practice, the term is "open source" standing alone, but "open-source" used as an adjective or in compounds; thus, "open-source software". ...

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• A number of the free software evangelists, in informal discussion, felt that the proper response to Microsoft would be to stand together. ... While we didn't try to represent every group and project, many major voices of Open Source and Free Software have signed this message. ...
• We note a new triumph for Open Source and Free Software: we have become so serious a competitor to Microsoft that their executives publicly announce their fear. ...
• Perhaps they misunderstand the term Free Software. Remember that Free refers to liberty, not price. ... In contrast, the business model of Open Source is to reduce the cost of software development and maintenance by distributing it among many collaborators. ...
• There is much software that is essential to a business, but which does not differentiate that business from its competitors. Even companies that have not fully embraced the Open Source model can justify collaboration on Free Software projects for this non-differentiating software, because of the money they will save. And such collaborations are often overwhelmingly successful: for example, the project that produces the market-leading Apache web server was started by a group of users who agreed to share the work of maintaining a piece of software that each of their businesses depended on. ...
• But Free Software is also directly in the user's interest, because it means that the users control the software they use. ...
• Our GUI desktop projects have astounded the software industry by going from zero to being comparable with or superior to others in only 4 years. ... An entire industry has been built around Free Software, and is growing rapidly despite an unfavorable market. The success of software companies like Red Hat, and the benefits to vendors such as Dell and IBM, demonstrate that Free Software is not at all incompatible with business. ...
• The Free Software license singled out for abuse by Microsoft is the GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL. ... But this does not mean, as Microsoft claims, that a company using these programs is legally obliged to make all its software and data free. We make all GPL software available in source form for incorporation as a building block in new programs. This is the secret of how we have been able to create so much good software, so quickly. ...

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• What is the Association For Free Software (AFFS)?.
• The Association for Free Software (AFFS) is a membership organisation which promotes and defends Free Software in the UK.
• What is Free Software?.
• Free Software is about freedom. It refers to the freedom to share and modify software. The important thing about free software is that everyone has the freedom to cooperate with others in using and improving it. ...
• Membership is open to everyone who supports the goals of promoting free software. ...
• 05/01/2004 - Irish Free Software Organisation launches .
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• Free software license.
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• Generally speaking, free software license is a phrase used by the free software movement to mean any software license that grants users of the software the following four freedoms: .
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• The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of free software licenses at their web site. The list distinguishes between free software licenses that are compatible or incompatible with the FSF license of choice, the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license. The list also contains licenses which the FSF considers non-free for various reasons. ...
• The Debian Free Software Guidelines are also frequently used to determine whether a license is a free software license. ...
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• The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part of the contract, initially designed as a set of commitments that we agree to abide by, has been adopted by the free software community as the basis of the Open Source Definition. "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community.
• Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software .
• We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free software. As there are many definitions of free software, we include the guidelines we use to determine if software is "free" below. We will support our users who develop and run non-free software on Debian, but we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software.
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• When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license them as free software. We will make the best system we can, so that free software will be widely distributed and used. ... to the "upstream" authors of software included in our system.
• Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software .
• We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software community. ... We won't object to commercial software that is intended to run on Debian systems, and we'll allow others to create value-added distributions containing both Debian and commercial software, without any fee from us. To support these goals, we will provide an integrated system of high-quality, 100% free software, with no legal restrictions that would prevent these kinds of use.
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• We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software. The software in these directories is not part of the Debian system, although it has been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of software packages in these directories and determine if they can distribute that software on their CDs. Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages. ...

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• Work over the past few months by a group of free software volunteers has forced Microsoft to offer an official version of Windows XP and MSOffice in Welsh to head off the threat of huge defections from its software. ...
• This is good news for Welsh, and long overdue, but it is not purely coincidence that it is the end of a year which has seen tremendous growth in the provision of free software in Welsh.
• The list of free/open-source software in Welsh is impressive, and can already meet the needs of most computer-users, whether at home or at work. ...
• Microsoft's decision now parallels that in other minority language areas which have decided to produce their own versions of free/open-source software. ...
• It remains to be seen whether Microsoft's new commitment to the Welsh language is real, or merely a ploy to take the steam out of the growing free/open-source software movement in Wales. ...
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• The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. ... And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
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• Over the last few years, as the Open Source/Free Software movement has become a constant in the business and technology press, generating conferences, spawning academic investigations and business ventures alike, one single question seems to have beguiled nearly everyone: "how do you make money with free software?".
• In particular two claims are often made: 1) That free software is somehow 'like' science, and therefore good; and, 2) That free software is - like science - a well-functioning 'gift economy' (a form of meta-market with its own currency) and that the currency of payment in this economy is reputation. ...
• If we ask where free software flourished in the period from 1984 to the present, then the answer is: as part of the institutions of science. From Stallman's office at MIT to Torvald's class project in Finland, the participants who make free software are drawn overwhelmingly from universities and research labs (both private and public). ...
• If we trace the roots of free software (prior to Stallman's FSF) and generously include the work of AT&T Bell Labs, Sun, and UC Berkeley on Unix - which arguably benefited from similar dynamics of open source code and shared projects, even if it was not free in the strong sense - then the case is undeniable: free software is as much a part of science as computer science and engineering have been.
• Making the comparison between free software and science gives us the chance to ask anew - just how is it that anyone makes money from the results and products of science, when scientists just give them away for free? Even though we know that science is not free from the ebb and tide of corporate capitalism, or of national political interest, should this not be an equally perplexing question?.
• What is interesting about this comparison is that openness, whether in science or in free software, is not assumed to be moral, but rather structural, and here an interesting conundrum appears:.
• When open source and free software advocates compare free software to science, and the scientific method, they usually make the claim, often explicitly, that through some unspecified mechanism this open, collaborative, non-proprietary community of software development actually results in better software, whether indirectly through debugging or directly through openness and deliberative design. Indeed, even across the lines drawn between them, the Open Source organization and the Free Software Foundation agree on this: guaranteed openness creates better, more stable, less buggy software - software that does not suck 2 .
• So what's going on here? If free software and science have shared the same technical and social structure of collaboration and dissemination for the last 20 years (longer if you count the creation of the Internet itself), then why would the culture of openness, collaboration, and sharing result in creating or improving high quality complex software, when the same system's effect on scientific research is assumed to be negligible?.
• Answer one is that it doesn't: free software is not better, or its quality does not flow from the structure of collaboration. Good software, like scientific truth, comes from elsewhere, though no one's saying where just yet.
• It is in these terms that research in the history and sociology of science and scientific thought can help draw some distinctions that may well help illuminate the supposed conundrum of "how to make money with free software".
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• Without this rather substantial body of work, free software would have been shut out of all government agencies. ...
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• Have a look at the list of reasons why mpt says that free software UIs come out badly: .
• I don't think most of these bullet points explain why free software user interfaces are traditionally sucky. ...
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• People have argued that good software developers won't work for free, that too many cooks could screw up the design, that free software won't have innovative features, that no one will do the boring bugfixes, that lame workarounds will remain forever, etc. ...
• Guess what - many successful free software projects have overcome those issues on the software architecture side. ...
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• (It is true that UI designers have to spend more time convincing others to do things than they might have to in a proprietary because-I-said-so situation; but that's true of everyone involved in a free software project. ...
• If all these points apply to software development as well and free software projects seem to produce great software, why have they typically produced bad user interfaces? Again, consistently producing quality user interfaces is hard. ...
• UI bugs are just like any other problem with the software; they're something to be addressed. ...
• Here's a brief tangent on my personal view, though you are free to consider me biased since I work at Red Hat. ...

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• Free Software: Access and Empowerment .
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• I will discuss the confusion that results from the two meanings of the word `free' in English, and the way the legal framework of freedom leads to competitive free markets. ...
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• Free software is software to which you have the legal right to copy, study, modify, and redistribute. You have the freedom to use the software as you wish. ...
• Because competition in a competitive market forces down the price of free software, no one enters the software industry to sell software as such. ...
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• As Miguel de Icaza (leader of the GNOME project, competitor to KDE) once told me, `English is broken; it does not distinguish between `free' as in freedom and `free' as in no price. ...
• Free software is `libre' software. ...
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• Freely redistributable software tends to be inexpensive, because it is sold in a competitive, free market. (This means that businessmen will not try to sell the software itself, but enter other businesses; more on that further in the talk. ...

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• Many people new to free software find themselves confused because the word "free" in the term "free software" is not used the way they expect. To them free means "at no cost". An English dictionary lists almost twenty different meanings for "free". ... When we speak of Free Software, we mean freedom, not price. ...
• Software that is free only in the sense that you don't need to pay to use it is hardly free at all. ... Software licensed at no cost is usually a weapon in a marketing campaign to promote a related product or to drive a smaller competitor out of business. There is no guarantee that it will stay free. ...
• To the uninitiated, either a piece of software is free or it isn't. ... To understand what kinds of things people are implying when they call software free we must take a little detour into the world of software licenses. ...
• Software companies are looking to protect their assets so they only release compiled code (which isn't human readable) and put many restrictions on the use of the software. Authors of free software on the other hand are generally looking for some combination of the following: .
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