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| | Free Software Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. | | | This is a listing of software packages which have been verified as free software. | | | From its founding until the mid-1990s FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation
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| | About Free Software Foundation Europe |
| | Free Software is one important cornerstone for freedom, democracy, human rights and development in a digital society. | | | The vision of Free Software is one of a stable basis for freedom in a digital world -- both in an economic and socio-ethical context. | | | Therefore, the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software -- as described in the Free Software definition -- allow equal participation in the information age. |
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http://www.fsfeurope.org/about/about.en.html
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| | FSF - The Free Software Foundation |
| | The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant. | | | Find over 4,000 free software packages to use in our Free Software Directory. | | | The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. |
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| | Free Software Foundation - HathawayMix.org |
| | Free software is a type of open source software that ensures the code remains accessible. | | | The name the FSF assigned itself in languages such as Portuguese doesn't have this problem; The "livre" in "software livre" is unambiguous. | | | Shane :: Software, Free Software :: March 17, 2005 # Free Software Foundation |
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http://hathawaymix.org/Weblog/2005-03-17
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| | The GNU Manifesto - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | Free software is software that users have the freedom to distribute and change. | | | Free software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software production. | | | Finally, the overhead of considering who owns the system software and what one is or is not entitled to do with it will be lifted. |
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http://www.free-soft.org/literature/papers/gnu/manifesto.html
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| | Free Software |
| | Free Software is also referred to as Freed Software, Liberated Software (software libre) or FRS (freely redistributable software). | | | Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. | | | This usage of the name "Free Software" was common in the Unix world and recently introduced to the general computer community. |
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http://www.free-soft.org
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| | Foundation wants more of the PC to be free Tech News on ZDNet |
| | The Free Software Foundation is calling on developers of open-source software to put their efforts into creating a free version of a crucial but obscure piece of software used in personal computers. | | | Because BIOS software is closely held, software writers don't have access to its source code, often making it difficult to get sophisticated computer features such as power management to work with Linux. | | | To help foster more free BIOS software, the foundation is asking for people to pitch in on development issues, such as determining how to install new BIOS software on PCs. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5593241.html
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| | Free Software Foundation from FOLDOC |
| | The Foundation's main work is supporting the GNU project, started by Richard Stallman (RMS), partly to proselytise for his position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. | | | The Free Software Foundation raises most of its funds from distributing its software, although it is a charity rather than a company. | | | However, many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. |
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http://foldoc.org/?Free+Software+Foundation
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| | Dictionary of Computers - Free Software Foundation |
| | The FSF was founded in 1983 by US artificial intelligence specialist Richard Stallman as a way of bringing back the cooperative spirit of the computing community's early days that had vanished by the early 1980s with the advent of widely sold proprietary software. | | | The project's ultimate goal is to make commercial software obsolete by providing free software to do everything computer users want to do. | | | US organization, based in Boston, which creates and distributes good-quality free software and utilities. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0051250.html
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| | LWN: Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter |
| | If FSF decides to prohibit distribution of GPLv3 licensed software on DRM'ed media, it could be soon impossible to distribute free software using the same channels as proprietary firmware. | | | The Free Software Foundation Europe is determined to put as much time and energy into this project as it needs to make the GPLv3 as powerful and successful as the GPLv2 is. The FSFE has set up a mailing list for public discussion of GPLv3, to which you are invited to subscribe at https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/gplv3 2. | | | In general, I hate how much of even free software communication is about marketing skills :) Very few really understand these things, but FUD can be spread even inside the free / open source software community. |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/150421
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| | Free Software Foundation - a Whatis.com definition - see also: FSF |
| | The Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in 1983 along with its demonstration GNU project. | | | Richard Stallman, an MIT professor, had worked as a student on projects where software was freely exchanged without copying or modifying stipulations. | | | Taking this idea to the group level, Stallman and others created the FSF and set out to demonstrate that an entire operating system could be developed and shared freely. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212158,00.html
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| | GNU General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations. | | | Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally. | | | This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. |
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http://www.blagblagblag.org/fsf/gpl.html
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| | Free Software Foundation accused of "price fixing" |
| | While a lot of software distributed until the GNU GPL is free of charge, this is not actually a mandate of the Free Software philosophy. | | | Daniel Wallace, who described himself as "educated in the art and science of physics and computer programming" and is representing himself, has launched the action in the US District Court in the Southern District of California and accused the FSF of artificially fixing software prices. | | | It added that this was done through the GNU General Public License, which is used for multiple free and open source software projects, including the Linux operating system, and which Wallace described as an "adhesion contract." |
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http://www.linuxjunkies.in/viewtopic.php?p=2294
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| | Salon Technology MIT's Gates building: Free Software Foundation's new home? |
| | The offices of the pioneering Free Software Foundation were long housed at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. | | | The news is rich in irony for the followers of the free software movement. | | | The free software story A comprehensive guide to Salon's coverage of the open software movement. |
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http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/04/14/gates_building
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| | Free Software Foundation Europe wants your money The Register |
| | The FSFE is the European offshoot of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), an organisation set up in 1985 to promote computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. | | | Greve argues that market rules are stacked in favour of proprietory software, and that this is compounded by a consumer expectation that software should be proprietory. | | | "The GNU Business Network was first concieved around 2001 with the vision to foster and support commercial business with Free Software, supporting Free Software companies and those on their way to Free Software." Greve said, in an email interview with El Reg. |
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http://www.theregister.com/2004/07/09/free_software_funds
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| | The Free Software Foundation Explained |
| | The FSF (Free Software Foundation) was a creation of RMS (Richard M. Stallman) in 1983. | | | The FSF has truly changed software development as well as computer usage forever. | | | For most computer users, the author of the software is unknown, or simply listed. |
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http://www.techimo.com/articles/i179.html
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| | GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 12 January, 1992 |
| | All the software and publications from the Free Software Foundation are distributed with permission to copy and redistribute. | | | We do this by promoting the development and use of free software in all areas of computer use. | | | By contrast, the Free Software Foundation concentrates on development of new free software, working towards a GNU system complete enough to eliminate the need for you to purchase a proprietary system. |
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http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/12/bull12.html
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| | The Fellowship - Fellowship of FSFE |
| | This is the place where the Fellows of the Free Software Foundation Europe meet and come together to share ideas, collaborate on projects and inform each other about what is going on in the world of Free Software. | | | Germany: 2006 will be the year of computer science | | | The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) filed an application for leave to intervene in the antitrust suit against Microsoft yesterday. |
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| | Free Software Foundation Targets RTLinux for GPL Violations |
| | The Free Software Foundation claims that Victor Yodaiken, the CEO at FSMLabs, has used the patent to impose restricted terms on distribution of this program. | | | Members of the open-source community recently expressed their concern about ongoing moves by Microsoft Corp. to acquire a range of software patents that the company can potentially use to attack and restrict the development and distribution of open-source software. | | | The FSF holds the copyright for a number of other major components of the GNU/Linux operating system, but those programs are not involved in this issue. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1654625,00.asp
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| | Richard Stallman's Personal Page |
| | GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. | | | A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom. | | | Rio de Janeiro, and some from Porto Alegre where the Software Livre 2000 event was held. |
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| | Humorix Free Software Foundation Forks Linux |
| | Shortly after, the Free Software Foundation presented the initial version of their new GIL (GIL Is Linux) kernel, dubbed GIL 2.4.18. | | | The vastspy.NET reports that the Free Software Foundation has decided to fork Linux. | | | ReviewXP (an independant software review company, 100% owned by Microsoft) issued an advisory recommending users not to upgrade to GIL. |
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http://humorix.org/articles/2002/03/gil-fork
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| | SCO Faces Hurdles in Linux Claims |
| | In fact, he said, when SCO first filed its suit against IBM, he approached SCO's lawyers because it is the Free Software Foundation and not IBM which holds the copyright to the Linux distribution IBM created, Linux for S/360. | | | "When SCO's own Unix software code is being illegally copied into Linux, we believe we have an obligation to educate commercial users of the potential liability that could rest with them for using such software to run their business. | | | He added, "We help people to solve problems with free software. |
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| | Free Software Foundation - Consumerium |
| | The Free Software Foundation or FSF is at http://fsf.org | | | See problems with free software and open source models for more. | | | It is also sometimes called GNU after its original project, "GNU's Not Unix." It uses a gnu-head as its symbol. |
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| | Since alpha.gnu.org is primarily a site for quick release of constantly changing software, we won't go to great pains to restore every file, but we will restore those files where the integrity of the file is easy to confirm. | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To the Free Software Community: Summary * gnuftp, the FTP server for the GNU project was root compromised. | | | - -- Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director Free Software Foundation |
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| | Free Software Foundation probes Linksys The Register |
| | DVD X Ghost — Make your software DVD players and DVD copy/ba... | | | The debate has been taken up on Slashdot with the usual enthusiasm that, finally, Linux will be able to eat Microsoft and Cisco for lunch using this as a lever - but so far, the excitement hasn't reached a sufficiently senior level inside Linksys to prompt any official response. | | | DVD X Player Pro — A region-free/code-free software DVD play... |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/09/free_software_foundation_probes_linksys
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| | NewsForge Free Software Foundation debuts Shared Source program |
| | We keep telling you that Open Source is not the same as Free Software. | | | Pentagon assured the public that Stallman would be fine because they know him as free. | | | My question: When is Microsoft going to finally close that purchase on the Apache Software Foundation? |
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| | FSF statement |
| | FSF recognizes the enormous value of Python for developers of free software; we are pleased that all prior difficulties with the fullest use of Python in free software projects have now been resolved. | | | Python 2.0.1c1 and all future versions released under the same license are free software that may be freely combined with programs released under GPL. | | | The Free Software Foundation thanks the board of the Python Foundation and Guido van Rossum for their cooperation in developing a license for Python 2.0.1 that is fully compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
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| | The GNU Privacy Guard - GnuPG.org |
| | Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. | | | PGP, on which OpenPGP is based, was originally developed by Philip Zimmermann in the early 1990s. | | | It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. |
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| | Free Software Foundation |
| | IT Agents > Professional Organizations > Computer Software Industry Professional Organizations > Free Software Foundation | | | To view the documents indexed under a topic, click on the term. | | | TMCNet IT Research Library Copyright © 1998-2005 Bitpipe, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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