Free software
In November of 2006, the Microsoft and Novell software corporations announced a controversial partnership involving, among other things, patent protection for some customers of Novell under certain conditions.[15]
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See also
- Free content
- Free software community
- Free file format
- Free software licenses
- Glossary of legal terms in technology
- Gratis versus Libre
- List of free software packages
- List of free software project directories
- List of formerly proprietary software
- Libre knowledge
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References
- ^ GNU project Initial Announcement.
- ^ David A. Wheeler. Appendix "History" of Why OSS/FS, Look at the Numbers!. “However, as years progressed, and especially in the 1970s and 1980s, software developers increasingly closed off their software source code from users.”
- ^ Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software. “The philosophy of open source, with its purely practical values, impedes understanding of the deeper ideas of free software; it brings many people into our community, but does not teach them to defend it.”
- ^ GNU's Bulletin, Volume 1 Number 1, page 8.
- ^ Free Software Foundation. The Free Software Definition. Retrieved on 2007-04-22.
- ^ Bruce Perens. Debian's "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community. debian-announce mailing list.
- ^ Debian -- License information. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
- ^ Firefox more secure than MSIE after all. News.com.
- ^ Transcript where Stallman explains about spyware.
- ^ David A. Wheeler. High Assurance (for Security or Safety) and Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)... with Lots on Formal Methods.
- ^ Netcraft. Web Server Usage Survey.
- ^ The Apache Software Foundation. Apache Strategy in the New Economy.
- ^ GNU/Linux distributions we know of which consist entirely of free software, and whose main distribution sites distribute only free software.
- ^ Richard Stallman thanking Larry McVoy for ending the gratis licenses for BitKeeper. NewsForge.
- ^ Ars Technica article on the Microsoft-Novell patent deal.
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External links
- 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
- Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, by Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter
- Free Software Definition at The Linux Information Project
- http://sourceforge.net/ is the world's largest Open Source software development web site. SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.
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