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Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software . Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We... See more
Free Software Foundation • What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:-The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).-The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.-The freedom to redistribute... See more
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We... See more
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
public interest software.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Transparent by design | Pia Mancini | Monki Gras 2018
youtu.beRichard Stallman, the MIT hacker who’s generally credited with starting the free software movement, was inspired to launch the GNU project, a free software operating system, in 1983, after attempting to customize a Xerox printer in MIT’s AI Lab and finding that he could not access or modify its source code. Stallman wanted to liberate code from
... See moreNadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Web2 was built on Open Source. I created Homebrew, used by almost every web2 company… yet the most compensation I ever received was a (literal) “thank you for Homebrew” blanket from Google one cold winter.
PromiseKit, another project I created, was once used by over 100,000 apps including McDonalds—but I never even got... See more
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Wrote for @LAReviewofBooks about what I’m calling “Brodernism,” a certain mode of critical engagement with “difficult” or “avant garde” literature that’s mostly fetish and nostalgia, and why Krasznahorkai’s latest is boring. Link below. https://t.co/PxEQgCjg1p