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	Free software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freedom from such restrictions is central to the concept of "free software", such that the opposite of free software is proprietary software, and not software which is sold for profit, such as commercial software.
		Free software packages constitute a software ecosystem where software provides services, resulting in mutual benefit: for instance, the Apache web server handling the HTTP protocol, using mod_python to provide dynamic content.
		On the Birth of the Free Software Movement in 1887 — Essay by Leo Findeisen, monochrom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_software (2245 words)

	Encyclopedia: Free software definition
		The FSF definition of free software does not touch on the issue of price; a commonly used slogan is "free as in speech, not as in beer", and it is common to see CDs of free software such as Linux distributions for sale.
		A large and increasing amount of software is made available under free software licenses; observers of this trend (and adherents) often refer to this phenomenon as the free software movement.
		Since free software allows free use, modification, and distribution, it often finds a home in third world countries for whom the cost of proprietary software is sometimes prohibitive.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Free-software-definition (1863 words)

	Software engineering \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Software engineering
		Software engineering (SE) is the profession, practiced by software engineers, concerned with creating and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering and other fields.
		Software generally needs to be reliable (with the consequences of failure ranging from annoying to deadly) and needs to be produced economically.
		Software engineering techniques are intended to improve the functionality and reliability of software, while improving the efficiency and easing the task of software development.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Software_engineering (4196 words)

	The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
		Software developers do not have the power to eliminate or override these restrictions, but what they can and must do is refuse to impose them as conditions of use of the program.
		To decide whether a specific software license qualifies as a free software license, we judge it based on these criteria to determine whether it fits their spirit as well as the precise words.
	www.gnu.org /philosophy/free-sw.html (1474 words)

	free software - Definition of free software - free software in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Specifically, users must be free to modify the software for their private use, and free to redistribute it either with or without modifications, either commercially or noncommercially, either gratis or charging a distribution fee.
		Free software has existed since the dawn of computing; Free Software as a movement began in 1984 with the GNU Project.
		Hard-core proponents of the term "free software" sometimes reject this newer term, claiming that the style of argument associated with it ignores or downplays the moral imperative at the heart of free software.
	www.dictionarywords.net /find/word/free+software (299 words)

	Debian -- What Does Free Mean?
		Software that is free only in the sense that you don't need to pay to use it is hardly free at all.
		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.
		While free software is not totally free of constraints (only putting something in the public domain does that) it gives the user the flexibility to do what they need in order to get work done.
	www.debian.org /intro/free (1045 words)

	Open Source - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		The Free Software movement and the Open Source movement are today separate movements with different views and goals, although we can and do work together on some practical projects.
		The official definition of ``open source software,'' as published by the Open Source Initiative, is very close to our definition of free software; however, it is a little looser in some respects, and they have accepted a few licenses that we consider unacceptably restrictive of the users.
		Lakhani and Wolf's paper on the motivation of free software developers says that a considerable fraction are motivated by the view that software should be free.
	www.gnu.org /philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html (2551 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - The Open Source Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We think the Open Source Definition captures what the great majority of the software community originally meant, and still mean, by the term "Open Source".
		Software linked with GPLed libraries only inherits the GPL if it forms a single work, not any software with which they are merely distributed.
		Origins: Bruce Perens wrote the first draft of this document as "The Debian Free Software Guidelines", and refined it using the comments of the Debian developers in a month-long e-mail conference in June, 1997.
	www.opensource.org /docs/definition.php (1347 words)

	Free Software
		This usage of the name "Free Software" was common in the Unix world and recently introduced to the general computer community.
		Free Software is also referred to as Freed Software, Liberated Software (software libre) or FRS (freely redistributable software).
		The precise meaning of Free Software is spelled out in the Debian Free Software Guidelines or the Free Software Definition while Open Source is defined officially by the Open Source Definition.
	www.free-soft.org (530 words)

	FSF - The Free Software Definition
		Free and Open-Source Software Luminaries Call on Worldwide Community to Vote Against Software Patents in the "European of the Year 2005" Internet Poll
		Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit
		Copyright © 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
	www.fsf.org /licensing/essays/free-sw.html (1335 words)

	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.
		Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.
		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
	www.gnu.org /copyleft/gpl.html (2670 words)

	Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) References
		The term "Free software" (as used in OSS/FS literature) is based on the word "freedom" (the word "libre" is used in some other languages).
		Free, as in free cocaine ("the first one is on me").
		As noted above, although there are two different definitions (for open source software and free software), in practice a license either meets or doesn't meet both definitions.
	www.dwheeler.com /oss_fs_refs.html (4826 words)

	Setting Up Shop
		The word "free" has traditionally led commercial software vendors to think "no revenue," and customers of those companies to think "no support;" thus free software was assumed to be irrelevant to the commercial world, with free software developers often cast as idealistic and naive.
		Part of the reason lies in the origins of free software as a concept; charging for software licenses was (and is) seen by many as antithetical to the interests of users (who would be better off if provided free and unrestricted use of software) and to society as a whole.
		This is the original free software business model advocated by Richard Stallman in the GNU Manifesto and first implemented by Cygnus Solutions, a for-profit company formed to provide support services for GNU tools (most notably the GNU compilers).
	www.hecker.org /writings/setting-up-shop.html (14193 words)

	Free Software Definition
		Commercial development of free software is no longer unusual; such programs are free commercial software.
		See Categories of Free Software (18k characters) for a description of how ``free software,'' ``copylefted software'' and other categories of software relate to each other.
		open source to mean something close (but not identical) to "free software".
	www.egnu.com /fsf_files/fsf_definition.html (1201 words)

	Wiki software - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first such software was created by Ward Cunningham in 1994, but given the relative simplicity of the wiki concept, a large number of implementations now exist, ranging from very simple "hacks" implementing only core functionality to highly sophisticated content management systems.
		The term "wiki software" could be interpreted as comprising all of the software required to run a wiki, which might include a web server such as Apache, in addition to the "Wiki engine" itself, which implements the wiki technology.
		Modelled on Wiki, it is free software released under the MIT license.
	www.free-definition.com /Wiki-software.html (1605 words)

	FSF - Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award
		Theo's leadership of OpenBSD, his selfless commitment to Free Software and his advancement of network security, were cited by this year's award committee.
		The Free Software Foundation sponsors the annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software, to recognize and honor those that have made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free Software (free as in freedom as defined in the Free Software Definition), through activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom.
		Any kind of activity could be eligible -- writing software, writing documentation, publishing software, even journalism -- but whatever the activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the development of the world of software freedom.
	www.fsf.org /news/fsaward2004.html (393 words)

	Debian Social Contract
		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.
		For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be free software.
		This document was drafted by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian developers during a month-long e-mail conference in June 1997, and then accepted as the publicly stated policy of the Debian Project.
	www.debian.org /social_contract (984 words)

	Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
		Note that those who use the term “open source software” tend to emphasize technical advantages of such software (such as better reliability and security), while those who use the term “Free Software” tend to emphasize freedom from control by another and/or ethical issues.
		Software that cannot be modified and redistributed without further limitation, but whose source code is visible (e.g., “source viewable” or “open box” software, including “shared source” and “community” licenses), is not considered here since such software don’t meet the definition of OSS/FS.
		As the declaration Free Software Leaders Stand Together states, the business model of OSS/FS “is to reduce the cost of software development and maintenance by distributing it among many collaborators”.
	www.dwheeler.com /oss_fs_why.html (15406 words)

	www.teak.cc: Free Software Links
		Open source, freely redistributable software is software for which you have the rights to copy, study, modify, and redistribute.
		The first is an introduction to the consequences of a free software license, free as in freedom: How to Shape a Technology.
		A third is a variation on this theme for the `Congreso de Software Libre' in Guadalajara, Mexico, which was from 16 to 18 May 2002: Software Freedom: Access, Empowerment, and Governance.
	www.teak.cc (2160 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.
		You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source." We also make copies of approved open source licenses here.
		We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits.
	www.opensource.org (491 words)

	Free - FSF - The Free Software Foundation
		We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms.
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	Free software definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Free Software Foundation has a specific definition for the term free software.
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	www.explainthis.info /fr/free-software-definition.html (188 words)

	Freeware ( Free Software) Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	www.bitpipe.com /tlist/Freeware.html (282 words)

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		Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.
		Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize.
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