Liberating non-free software with Linux-libre
May 17, 2011, 08:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Anuradha Shukla)
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"The compelling desire for software that was free of expensive
licensing, over the past half century,lead to the development of
open source software. However, open source in some of its popular
forms such as Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu and the rest of the distros
though based on the freely available platform , often comes with
certain parts of code or source that are under license. Free
Software Foundation the alma mater of all open source software,
along with like-minded community volunteers chose to start the
Linux-Libre Project, which is dedicated to editing the Linux Kernel
to maintain it free of licensed open source software."
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