[ Thanks to Danijel Orsolic for this
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“Free Software Foundation, or FSF for short, is one of the most
controversial information technology related organizations. Some
people hate it and some people love it. Neither can change the fact
that it has had a tremendous influence on what many today tend to
call the “open source” phenomenon which is in fact lying on the
very foundations that the FSF represents: Free Software and the
Free Software philosophy. Variations of this philosophy have sprung
up into new, but similar philosophies due to differing motivations
and goals. You can read more about it in our recent ‘Facts and
Friction on Open Source and Free Software’ article.“In this article, however, we are attempting to take a look
through the glasses of the Free Software Foundation in order to
understand what drives people involved with it and why does it do
what it does…”
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