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If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says R...

The GNU Manifesto (which appears below) was written by Richard Stallman at the beginning of the GNU Project, to ask for participation and support. For the first fe...

I grew up in a community whose other members committed crimes as serious as murder. The city of New York, with its 8 million inhabitants, had hundreds of murders each year, mos...

There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers--with proprietary software, the compu...

Just consider: the GNU Project starts developing an operating system, and years later Linus Torvalds adds one important piece. The GNU Project says, "Please give our project eq...

While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas . In 1998, some ...

Apologists for proprietary software like to say, `` free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch ...

Here is a glossary of various categories of software that are often mentioned in discussions of free software. It explains which categories overlap or are part of other catego...

Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible ...

The GNU Free Documentation License The biggest deficiency in free operating systems is not in the software--it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in ...

Introduction The existence of software inevitably raises the question of how decisions about its use should be made. For example, suppose one individual who has a copy of a...

We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software. Free software is a m...