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Introduction to Freedomware
http://freedomwareproject.org/enter/?p=22
James Hall on Free and Open Source Software
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| Free software is a matter of of the users' freedom to
| run, copy, distribute, study, change, improve the
| software. Like open source software, a free software
| license requires that the source code be made
| available - otherwise the user would not be able
| to study, change, improve the program. In this
| usage, the term "free" refers to freedom, not
| price. This is also the origin of the meme "Free
| as in speech, not as in beer."
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http://scienceblogs.com/collectiveimagination/2009/10/james_hall_on_free_and_open_so.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Recent:
The Freedomware Project Manifesto
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| In addition, large software corporations often inhibit sharing of ideas
| by not allowing the user to share the software with other people.
| Software patents exist in order to prevent individuals from outdoing
| the large organizations who wish to retain that âcompetitive edge.â
| Having the source code was out of the question, and woe be unto those
| who shared copies with other people, despite the fact that the software
| in question was vastly overpriced. This is why organizations such as
| the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative exists.
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http://www.freedomwareproject.org/index.html
Related:
Freedomware?
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| Freedomware is not intended as a term to replace Free Software or Open Source
| Software aka FOSS, FLOSS. These terms have their niche and place in society.
| They are well established and we are all better for it.
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| We are not reinventing the wheel nor are we asking that Freedomware be used
| in lieu of Free Software or Open Source Software. We are after all, just
| scratching an itch! While simultaneously filling the communications gap that
| exists between the developers and the rest of the world.
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http://thetuxproject.com/freedomware_defined
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