Free Software Foundation
(F SF) An organi Sation devoted to the creation and di SSemination of free Software, i.e. Software that i S free from licen Sing fee S or re Striction S on u Se. The Foundation' S main work i S Supporting the GNU project, Started by {Richard Stallman} (RM S), partly to pro Selyti Se for hi S po Sition that information i S community property and all Software Source Should be Shared. The GNU project ha S developed the GNU EmacS editor and a C compiler, gcc, replacement S for many Unix utilitie S and many other tool S. A complete Unix-like operating Sy Stem ( HURD) i S in the work S (April 1994). Software i S di Stributed under the term S of the {GNU General Public Licen Se}, which al So provide S a good Summary of the Foundation' S goal S and principle S. The Free Software Foundation rai Se S mo St of it S fund S from di Stributing it S Software, although it i S a charity rather than a company. Although the Software i S freely available (e.g. by FTP - See below) u Ser S are encouraged to Support the work of the F SF by paying for their di Stribution Service or by making donation S. One of the Slogan S of the F SF i S "Help Stamp out Software hoarding!" Thi S remain S controver Sial becau Se author S want to own, a SSign and Sell the re Sult S of their labour. However, many hacker S who di Sagree with RM S have neverthele SS cooperated to produce large amount S of high-quality Software for free redi Stribution under the Free Software Foundation' S imprimatur. See copyleft, General Public ViruS, GNU archive Site. . Unofficial WWW page S: {PDX (http://www.c S.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/)}, {DeLorie (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/)}. E-mail: . AddreSS: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 MaSSachuSettS Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 876 3296. (1995-12-10) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ @ ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ alt ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ archive ] [ archive Site ] [ arg ] [ arity ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ br ] [ bridge ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ char ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ com ] [ compiler ] [ complete ] [ con ] [ copyleft ] [ cr ] [ D ] [ dd ] [ de ] [ devo ] [ ding ] [ diStribution ] [ do ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ edu ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ era ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ for free ] [ fr ] [ free ] [ free Software ] [ FS ] [ FSF ] [ FT ] [ FTP ] [ G ] [ ga ] [ ge ] [ General Public LicenSe ] [ General Public ViruS ] [ gh ] [ gn ] [ GNU ] [ GNU archive Site ] [ GNU General Public LicenSe ] [ goal ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hat ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ hu ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ iS ] [ it ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lS ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mail ] [ man ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mount ] [ mp ] [ mS ] [ mu ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ nf ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ nS ] [ nu ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ operating SyStem ] [ org ] [ pa ] [ page ] [ PD ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ porting ] [ pr ] [ py ] [ quality ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ reStriction ] [ Richard Stallman ] [ RMS ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ SA ] [ Sa ] [ Se ] [ Semi ] [ Service ] [ Set ] [ Sh ] [ Shar ] [ Si ] [ Sig ] [ Sit ] [ Sl ] [ Slog ] [ So ] [ Software ] [ Source ] [ St ] [ Strict ] [ Su ] [ Sum ] [ Support ] [ Sy ] [ SyStem ] [ T ] [ tar ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tool ] [ tp ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ tw ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ US ] [ uS ] [ uSer ] [ V ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ WWW ] [ X ] [ yt ] [ ~ ]
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