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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Free Software Foundation (FSF) An organisation devoted to the creation and dissemination of free software, i.e. software that is free from licensing fees or restrictions on use. The Foundation's main work is supporting the GNU project, started by Richard Stallman (RMS), partly to proselytise for his position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. The GNU project has developed the GNU Emacs editor and a C compiler, gcc, replacements for many Unix utilities and many other tools. A complete Unix-like operating system (HURD) is in the works (April 1994). Software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which also provides a good summary of the Foundation's goals and principles. The Free Software Foundation raises most of its funds from distributing its software, although it is a charity rather than a company. Although the software is freely available (e.g. by FTP - see below) users are encouraged to support the work of the FSF by paying for their distribution service or by making donations. One of the slogans of the FSF is "Help stamp out software hoarding!" This remains controversial because authors want to own, assign and sell the results of their labour. However, many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. See copyleft, General Public Virus, GNU archive site. (ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu) Unofficial WWW pages: PDX (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/), DeLorie (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/). E-mail: |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a foundation founded in 1985 that is dedicated to producing and promoting free software. It was founded by Richard Stallman, and works primarily on the GNU project. The FSF focuses primarily on developing new free software as opposed to distributing whatever may be available at the time.
On November 25, 2002 the FSF launched the FSF Associate Membership program.
Their site is very vague on their organizational structure, but Richard Stallman is president and founder.
See also: GNU, Richard Stallman, free software, free software movementFSF history, software...
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Free Software Foundation."
Crosswords: FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION |
| Specialty definitions using "FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION": copyleft ♦ FRS, FSF ♦ Open source license ♦ software hoarding. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
free software foundation | 41 |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 52 45 45 53 4F 46 54 57 41 52 45 46 4F 55 4E 44 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010010 01000101 01000101 00100000 01010011 01001111 01000110 01010100 01010111 01000001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F R E E   S O F T W A R E   F O U N D A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0052 0045 0045 0053 004F 0046 0054 0057 0041 0052 0045 0046 004F 0055 004E 0044 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4052393925349405457355239240495548383554434948 |
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