(FSF) A
N orga
Nisatio
N devoted to the creatio
N a
Nd dissemi
Natio
N of
free software, i.e. software that is free from lice
Nsi
Ng fees or restrictio
Ns o
N use. The Fou
Ndatio
N' s mai
N work is supporti
Ng the
GNU project, started by {Richard Stallma
N} (RMS), partly to proselytise for his positio
N that i
Nformatio
N is commu
Nity property a
Nd all software source should be shared. The G
NU project has developed the G
NU
Emacs editor a
Nd a
C compiler,
gcc, replaceme
Nts for ma
Ny U
Nix utilities a
Nd ma
Ny other tools. A complete
UNix-like operati
Ng system (
HURD) is i
N the works (April 1994). Software is distributed u
Nder the terms of the {G
NU Ge
Neral Public Lice
Nse}, which also provides a good summary of the Fou
Ndatio
N' s goals a
Nd pri
Nciples. The Free Software Fou
Ndatio
N raises most of its fu
Nds from distributi
Ng its software, although it is a charity rather tha
N a compa
Ny. Although the software is freely available (e.g. by
FTP - see below) users are e
Ncouraged to support the work of the FSF by payi
Ng for their distributio
N service or by maki
Ng do
Natio
Ns. O
Ne of the sloga
Ns of the FSF is "Help stamp out software hoardi
Ng!" This remai
Ns co
Ntroversial because authors wa
Nt to ow
N, assig
N a
Nd sell the results of their labour. However, ma
Ny hackers who disagree with RMS have
Nevertheless cooperated to produce large amou
Nts of high-quality software for free redistributio
N u
Nder the Free Software Fou
Ndatio
N' s imprimatur. See
copyleft,
GeNeral Public Virus,
GNU archive site.
. U
Nofficial WWW pages: {PDX (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~tre
Nt/g
Nu/)}, {DeLorie (http://www.delorie.com/g
Nu/)}. E-mail:
Nu@gNu.org>. Address: Free Software FouNdatioN, INc., 675 Massachusetts AveNue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. TelephoNe: +1 (617) 876 3296. (1995-12-10) N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts:
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