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free software movement
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free software movement
The initiative endorsed by the Free Software Foundation that promotes freedom for computer users and considers proprietary software unethical. It holds that all software users are morally entitled to the freedoms granted by "free" software, which is often free of charge, but mostly free of restrictions (see free software). The first and main achievement of the free software movement was the GNU operating system. However, due to restrictions with application programs and embedded codes in hardware, the goal has yet to be fully realized. See free software, GNU, Free Software Foundation and GNU/Linux.
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Using examples of hybrid economies such as the free-software movement, photo-sharing site Flickr, and other social media, Lessig explains how giving things away can make money and why some hybrids succeed and others fail.
ENDING THE WEB WAR OVER COPYRIGHTS by Spencer Ante / BusinessWeek
144) Richard Stallman, one of the founders of the free-software movement, recently published a letter in an open content journal declaring that free software and open publishing are "based on the same fundamental principle: knowledge contributes to society when it can be shared and developed by communities.
The access to knowledge mobilization and the new politics of ... by Kapczynski, Amy / Yale Law Journal
 
 
 
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