Topic outline of free software

Topic outline of free software

Free software is software which can be run, studied, examined, modified, and redistributed. This type of software, which was given its name in 1983, has also come to be known as "open-source software", "software libre", "FOSS", and "FLOSS". The term "Free" refers to it being , rather than being free of charge.

The free software movement was launched in 1983 in order to write free software replacements for the non-free software that society relied on. Examples of free software packages include GNU, the Linux kernel, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org, and on network servers, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Apache.

List of topics:

Essence of Free Software

: "Main article: Free Software"
*Free software movement
*Free software community

Branches of Free Software

*GNU Project
*Linux
*Berkeley Software Distribution

History of Free Software

: "Main article: History of free software"

*History of the Linux kernel
*Free Software Foundation
*SCO-Linux controversies
*Open Source Initiative

Basic Free Software concepts

*Open source
*Gratis versus Libre
*Open standard
*Free-software licence
*Open Source Definition
*Debian Social Contract

Free Software scholars

* Lawrence Lessig
* John Gilmore
* Eben Moglen
* Eric S. Raymond

Leaders in Free Software

* Rick Adams
* Eric Allman
* Brian Behlendorf
* Keith Bostic
* Alan Cox
* Miguel de Icaza
* Theo de Raadt
* Jim Gettys
* Jon Hall
* Jordan Hubbard
* Lynne Jolitz
* William Jolitz
* Rasmus Lerdorf
* Marshall Kirk McKusick
* Ian Murdock
* Tim O'Reilly
* Keith Packard
* Brian Paul
* Bruce Perens
* Bob Scheifler
* Mark Shuttleworth
* Richard Stallman
* Linus Torvalds
* Andrew Tridgell
* Guido van Rossum
* Larry Wall

Free Software lists

: "Main article: List of free software topics"

*List of Linux distributions
*List of formerly proprietary software
*List of free software project directories
*Comparison of open source wireless drivers
*List of open source software packages
*List of trademarked open source software
*List of Ubuntu-based distributions

See also

External links

* [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html The Free Software Definition]
* [http://fsfe.org/transcripts Transcripts about Free Software] by FSFE
* [http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com Free Software Magazine] , which bills itself as "a free magazine for the free software world."
* [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition Free cultural works definition]
* [http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!] , analysis of the advantages of OSS/FS by David A. Wheeler.
* [http://www.flossworld.org/index.php FLOSSWorld - Free/Libre/Open-Source Software: Worldwide impact study] , to find out more about the recently announced European Union funded study.
* [http://www.teak.cc/softfree/software-freedom.html Software Freedom: An Introduction] , by Robert J. Chassell


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