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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/><meta charSet="utf-8"/><title>Free software</title><script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=es6"></script><script id="MathJax-script" async="" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"></script><script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
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</script><meta name="next-head-count" content="6"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/css/52fc2ba29703df73922c.css" as="style"/><link rel="stylesheet" href="/wiki/_next/static/css/52fc2ba29703df73922c.css" data-n-g=""/><noscript data-n-css=""></noscript><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/main-ae4733327bd95c4ac325.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/webpack-50bee04d1dc61f8adf5b.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/framework.9d524150d48315f49e80.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/commons.0e1c3f9aa780c2dfe9f0.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/pages/_app-8e3d0c58a60ec788aa69.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/940643274e605e7596ecea1f2ff8d83317a3fb76.4841a16762f602a59f00.js" as="script"/><link rel="preload" href="/wiki/_next/static/chunks/pages/%5B%5B...slug%5D%5D-1aa198f87ede1cd0e1dc.js" as="script"/></head><body><div id="__next"><main><h1>Free software</h1><section class="post-metadata"><span>Date: <!-- -->2021-07-22 14:25:13 +08:00</span><span>Date modified: <!-- -->2021-08-29 01:08:22 +08:00</span></section><nav class="toc"><ol class="toc-level toc-level-1"></ol></nav><p>Per <a href="roam:Free Software Foundation">roam:Free Software Foundation</a>:
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</p><blockquote><p>Free software means that the users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software.
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</p></blockquote><ul><li><p>a software that is primarily concerned with the liberty of the user regards to the software;
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thus, a dedicated user can influence the project working in the same realm as the team
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</p></li><li><p>one of the major components for <a href="roam:Free culture">roam:Free culture</a> movement
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</p></li><li><p>"free as in free speech, not as in beer" is a popular phrase to describe the idea;
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thus, also applying that free software doesn't have to be free in price but it should still support the idea of openness with software
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</p></li><li><p>despite the moniker, several companies have been making profits from free software
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</p><ul><li><p><a href="roam:Red Hat">roam:Red Hat</a> is one of the biggest for-profit companies from selling support for Linux-based ecosystems
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</p></li><li><p>Sony made the operating systems for PS3, PS4, and PS5 from <a href="roam:FreeBSD">roam:FreeBSD</a></p></li><li><p><a href="roam:Microsoft">roam:Microsoft</a> has been making free software (e.g., <a href="roam:Visual Studio Code">roam:Visual Studio Code</a>, <a href="roam:TypeScript">roam:TypeScript</a>)
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</p></li></ul></li><li><p>practically, a lot of the free software applications are created and maintained by volunteers in their spare time
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</p></li><li><p>furthermore, a lot of them are user-centric (e.g., <a href="roam:GNUnet">roam:GNUnet</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020-08-19-08-21-44">Guix package manager</a>) usually catering to power users and tinkerers with options for advanced configurations
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</p></li><li><p>due to their open nature, it often represents how <a href="/wiki/2021-08-28-23-55-24">Openness makes diversity</a> with the options to create forks of the software
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</p></li><li><p>most of them are also interested in compatibility as opposed to creating ecosystem from scratch;
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it is likely motivated from just pragmatism
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</p><ul><li><p><a href="roam:Inkscape">roam:Inkscape</a> offers importing from formats from its competitors such a Adobe Illustrator AI format
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</p></li><li><p><a href="roam:LibreOffice">roam:LibreOffice</a> can open several versions of Microsoft Word documents <!-- --> and AppleWorks documents
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</p></li></ul></li></ul><section><h2>Backlinks</h2><ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021-06-20-20-42-44">GNU Emacs</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/linux.why-a-unified-linux-distro-is-a-bad-idea">Why wishing a unified Linux distro is a pointless task</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/literature.courtesPackagingGrail2021">The Packaging Grail</a></li></ul></section></main></div><script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">{"props":{"pageProps":{"metadata":{"date":"2021-07-22 14:25:13 +08:00","date_modified":"2021-08-29 01:08:22 +08:00","language":"en","source":""},"title":"Free software","hast":{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"element","tagName":"nav","properties":{"className":"toc"},"children":[{"type":"element","tagName":"ol","properties":{"className":"toc-level toc-level-1"},"children":[]}]},{"type":"element","tagName":"p","properties":{},"children":[{"type":"text","value":"Per "},{"type":"element","tagName":"a","properties":{"href":"roam:Free Software 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