Ping Wales: Linux Vs Free Software

“In 1985, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation
(FSF). This organisation was dedicated to the development and
promotion of software which would be distributed guaranteeing
certain freedoms to the end user. These include the rights to run,
modify and redistribute either the original or modified versions of
the code.

“The term Free Software is often thought to be confusing–the
English language does not differentiate between free as in freedom
or free as in price–and so in recent years a spin-off movement has
started to talk about Open Source Software, which has a similar
definition…”

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