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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License. The FSF was incorporated in Massachusetts, USA, where it is also based.
From its founding until the mid-1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project. Since the mid-1990s, the FSF's employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the free software community.
Consistent with its goals, only free software is used on the FSF's computers.
The Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985 as a non-profit corporation supporting free software development. It continued existing GNU projects such as the sale of manuals and tapes, and employed developers of the free software system. Since then, it has continued these activities, as well as advocating for the free software movement. The FSF is also the steward of several free software licenses, meaning it publishes them and has the ability to make revisions as needed.
Free software, software libre, or libre software is computer software that gives users the freedom to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute the software and the adapted versions. The right to study and modify free software gives full access to its source code. For computer programs which are covered by copyright law this is achieved with a software license where the author grants users the aforementioned freedoms. Software which is not covered by copyright law, such as software in the public domain is free if the source code is in the public domain (or otherwise available without restrictions). Other legal and technical aspects such as software patents and digital restrictions management can restrict users in exercising their rights, and thus prevent software from being free. Free software may be developed collaboratively by volunteer computer programmers or by corporations; as part of a commercial, for-profit activity or not.
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software. With this, he also launched the free software movement. He has been the GNU project's lead architect and organizer, and developed a number of pieces of widely used GNU software including, among others, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger and the GNU Emacs text editor. In October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.
Computer software also called a program or simply software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of computer programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as online documentation or digital media). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Computer hardware and software require each other and neither can be realistically used without the other.
At the lowest level, executable code consists of machine language instructions specific to an individual processor—typically a central processing unit (CPU). A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its preceding state. For example, an instruction may change the value stored in a particular storage location in the computer—an effect that is not directly observable to the user. An instruction may also (indirectly) cause something to appear on a display of the computer system—a state change which should be visible to the user. The processor carries out the instructions in the order they are provided, unless it is instructed to "jump" to a different instruction, or interrupted.
Support SeaGL - http://seagl.org Support the Free Software Foundation - https://fsf.org/ Richard M. Stallman - https://stallman.org/
It is the first TEDx talk of the founder of Free Software movement. Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital age. He launched the GNU operating system, used with Linux as a component, and inspired the development of Creative Commons licences and Wikipedia project. In this talk, Stallman describes how nonfree programs give companies control of their users and what users can do in order to recover control over their computing. Licence: Creative Commons BY-SA-ND 3.0 CREDITS : Drawings under CC-BY-ND 3.0 created by Christian Nogareda (Kwis, Http://kwis.tumblr.com) & Valentin Pasquier (http://utopiqdream.deviantart.com) based on ideas of Richard Stallman, by himself & Ynternet.org foundation. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a...
A discussion (plus Q&A;) with the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), John Sullivan - Recorded live at LinuxFest NorthWest. May 6th, 2017. Made possible by: - System76, https://system76.com/ - Pogo Linux, http://www.pogolinux.com/ - And Viewers Like You, https://www.patreon.com/bryanlunduke How to yell at me: Blog: http://www.lunduke.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/BryanLunduke
Use free software
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.https://www.fsf.org
Slides and recording of a talk given in Cambridge, Massachusetts at LibrePlanet 2013 hosted by the Free Software Foundation. Despite the rhetoric, free software isn't always better than proprietary software and it isn't always particularly collaborative. Indeed, social science has shown that most free software projects are small and and the work of a single hacker. In this talk, I will walk through some of the academic research on FLOSS, and explain why free software "failures" are not something we need to be ashamed of or to hide and are something that we — as a community — can address and work toward! [The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of the Free Software Foundation.]
Full article: https://opensource.com/life/15/9/top-5-september-11 Top 5 articles of the week 5. Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for the Unix shell http://opensource.com/business/15/9/ato-interview-klaatu 4. A closer look at the world's first open digital cinema camera http://opensource.com/life/15/9/axiom-open-source-camera-system 3. Teaching big data processing with open source software http://opensource.com/education/15/9/teaching-big-data-with-open-source-software 2. The Free Software Foundation: 30 years in http://opensource.com/business/15/9/free-software-foundation-30-years 1. Five open source alternatives to Gmail http://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-gmail
Why the Free Software Foundation say iTunes isn't free software. Matt Lee, Technical Lead at Creative Commons explains. Swim Tracking App: http://youtu.be/-UxBdVirvJs UTF8 & the Unicode Miracle: http://youtu.be/MijmeoH9LT4 The Kindle Text Problem: http://youtu.be/kzdugwr4Fgk How this film was made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7hXuO2UKE A version of this film made with Avid (proprietary software): http://youtu.be/nXYly_wnAT4 This film was produced (almost) entirely with free software. The exception is that I transcoded the original footage to an easier to handle format before I started. The project has taken a week & involved me trying no less than five distros, several types of video editing software and spending hours waiting for renders which most of the time failed. I found ...
Eric Raymond, Jon Maddog Hall and Linus Torvalds talk about open source v free sofware. Selected clips from The Code by Hannu Puttonen. Copyright 2001 Note: This video may only be used for purposes such as criticism, review, private study, scholarship, or research. Other research materials and information: http://tech-insider.org/
Richard Stallman en Ecuador, cantando el temita, del free software, grabado por Julian Coccia.
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu. The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code (binary blobs) removed. Trisquel relies on user donations. Its logo is a triskelion, a Celtic symbol. Trisquel is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a distribution that contains only free software. Homepage - https://trisquel.info/ More materials - https://tlhp.cf Google+ group - https://goo.gl/jTZcDW Youtube channel - https://goo.gl/AJa6WZ Soundtracks - Fly Inverted Past a Jenny by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sourc...
Richard Stallman, MacArthur-Award-winner, freedom activist, and founder of the Free Software Foundation, discusses the importance of free software - in INT's ENLIGHTENMENT MINUTES. This video interview is being made available under the following Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Also appearing on the Intelligent Channel: new documentaries, innovative lectures and enlightening presentations, archival video and unedited footage from museums, libraries, and archives, and major conversations with thought leaders & entertainment celebrities. Watch for more! And join the conversation! Subscribe to the Intelligent Channel!
Freedom and democracy are said to be guarantees of human rights, but as the NSA spying scandal and the Arab Spring recently showed, that isn't always the case. Are all people inherently qualified for freedom and democracy? What happens when it's thrust upon them before they are ready? And what does it mean to be free? Oksana is joined by the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, to discuss these issues. Follow Worlds Apart on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldsApart_RT Like RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow RT on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios.
Google TechTalks June 15, 2006 Georg Greve, chairman of the FSF Europe explains priorities and strategies of the FSFEurope.
I give my take on the debate of Free Software only vs Proprietary Software
Richard M. Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation, is an Internet pioneer in the truest sense of the word. Check out his take on what a free and open Internet really means to millions of Americans.
DebConf16
Richard Stallman is the president and founder of the Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org). This video was originally taped in 1999 (the video mistakenly claims to be from 1996). Richard talks about free software and alludes to a future with ideas like Creative Commons and WikiPedia.
Eben Moglen speaks on the thirtieth anniversary of the Free Software Foundation (October 2015).
Support SeaGL - http://seagl.org Support the Free Software Foundation - https://fsf.org/ Richard M. Stallman - https://stallman.org/
It is the first TEDx talk of the founder of Free Software movement. Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital age. He launched the GNU operating system, used with Linux as a component, and inspired the development of Creative Commons licences and Wikipedia project. In this talk, Stallman describes how nonfree programs give companies control of their users and what users can do in order to recover control over their computing. Licence: Creative Commons BY-SA-ND 3.0 CREDITS : Drawings under CC-BY-ND 3.0 created by Christian Nogareda (Kwis, Http://kwis.tumblr.com) & Valentin Pasquier (http://utopiqdream.deviantart.com) based on ideas of Richard Stallman, by himself & Ynternet.org foundation. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a...
A discussion (plus Q&A;) with the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), John Sullivan - Recorded live at LinuxFest NorthWest. May 6th, 2017. Made possible by: - System76, https://system76.com/ - Pogo Linux, http://www.pogolinux.com/ - And Viewers Like You, https://www.patreon.com/bryanlunduke How to yell at me: Blog: http://www.lunduke.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/BryanLunduke
Use free software
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.https://www.fsf.org
Slides and recording of a talk given in Cambridge, Massachusetts at LibrePlanet 2013 hosted by the Free Software Foundation. Despite the rhetoric, free software isn't always better than proprietary software and it isn't always particularly collaborative. Indeed, social science has shown that most free software projects are small and and the work of a single hacker. In this talk, I will walk through some of the academic research on FLOSS, and explain why free software "failures" are not something we need to be ashamed of or to hide and are something that we — as a community — can address and work toward! [The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of the Free Software Foundation.]
Full article: https://opensource.com/life/15/9/top-5-september-11 Top 5 articles of the week 5. Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for the Unix shell http://opensource.com/business/15/9/ato-interview-klaatu 4. A closer look at the world's first open digital cinema camera http://opensource.com/life/15/9/axiom-open-source-camera-system 3. Teaching big data processing with open source software http://opensource.com/education/15/9/teaching-big-data-with-open-source-software 2. The Free Software Foundation: 30 years in http://opensource.com/business/15/9/free-software-foundation-30-years 1. Five open source alternatives to Gmail http://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-gmail
Why the Free Software Foundation say iTunes isn't free software. Matt Lee, Technical Lead at Creative Commons explains. Swim Tracking App: http://youtu.be/-UxBdVirvJs UTF8 & the Unicode Miracle: http://youtu.be/MijmeoH9LT4 The Kindle Text Problem: http://youtu.be/kzdugwr4Fgk How this film was made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS7hXuO2UKE A version of this film made with Avid (proprietary software): http://youtu.be/nXYly_wnAT4 This film was produced (almost) entirely with free software. The exception is that I transcoded the original footage to an easier to handle format before I started. The project has taken a week & involved me trying no less than five distros, several types of video editing software and spending hours waiting for renders which most of the time failed. I found ...
Eric Raymond, Jon Maddog Hall and Linus Torvalds talk about open source v free sofware. Selected clips from The Code by Hannu Puttonen. Copyright 2001 Note: This video may only be used for purposes such as criticism, review, private study, scholarship, or research. Other research materials and information: http://tech-insider.org/
Richard Stallman en Ecuador, cantando el temita, del free software, grabado por Julian Coccia.
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu. The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code (binary blobs) removed. Trisquel relies on user donations. Its logo is a triskelion, a Celtic symbol. Trisquel is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a distribution that contains only free software. Homepage - https://trisquel.info/ More materials - https://tlhp.cf Google+ group - https://goo.gl/jTZcDW Youtube channel - https://goo.gl/AJa6WZ Soundtracks - Fly Inverted Past a Jenny by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sourc...
Richard Stallman, MacArthur-Award-winner, freedom activist, and founder of the Free Software Foundation, discusses the importance of free software - in INT's ENLIGHTENMENT MINUTES. This video interview is being made available under the following Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ Also appearing on the Intelligent Channel: new documentaries, innovative lectures and enlightening presentations, archival video and unedited footage from museums, libraries, and archives, and major conversations with thought leaders & entertainment celebrities. Watch for more! And join the conversation! Subscribe to the Intelligent Channel!
Freedom and democracy are said to be guarantees of human rights, but as the NSA spying scandal and the Arab Spring recently showed, that isn't always the case. Are all people inherently qualified for freedom and democracy? What happens when it's thrust upon them before they are ready? And what does it mean to be free? Oksana is joined by the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, to discuss these issues. Follow Worlds Apart on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldsApart_RT Like RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow RT on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios.
Google TechTalks June 15, 2006 Georg Greve, chairman of the FSF Europe explains priorities and strategies of the FSFEurope.
I give my take on the debate of Free Software only vs Proprietary Software
Richard M. Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation, is an Internet pioneer in the truest sense of the word. Check out his take on what a free and open Internet really means to millions of Americans.
DebConf16
Richard Stallman is the president and founder of the Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org). This video was originally taped in 1999 (the video mistakenly claims to be from 1996). Richard talks about free software and alludes to a future with ideas like Creative Commons and WikiPedia.
Eben Moglen speaks on the thirtieth anniversary of the Free Software Foundation (October 2015).
Support SeaGL - http://seagl.org Support the Free Software Foundation - https://fsf.org/ Richard M. Stallman - https://stallman.org/
A discussion (plus Q&A;) with the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), John Sullivan - Recorded live at LinuxFest NorthWest. May 6th, 2017. Made possible by: - System76, https://system76.com/ - Pogo Linux, http://www.pogolinux.com/ - And Viewers Like You, https://www.patreon.com/bryanlunduke How to yell at me: Blog: http://www.lunduke.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/BryanLunduke
Slides and recording of a talk given in Cambridge, Massachusetts at LibrePlanet 2013 hosted by the Free Software Foundation. Despite the rhetoric, free software isn't always better than proprietary software and it isn't always particularly collaborative. Indeed, social science has shown that most free software projects are small and and the work of a single hacker. In this talk, I will walk through some of the academic research on FLOSS, and explain why free software "failures" are not something we need to be ashamed of or to hide and are something that we — as a community — can address and work toward! [The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect those of the Free Software Foundation.]
Freedom and democracy are said to be guarantees of human rights, but as the NSA spying scandal and the Arab Spring recently showed, that isn't always the case. Are all people inherently qualified for freedom and democracy? What happens when it's thrust upon them before they are ready? And what does it mean to be free? Oksana is joined by the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, to discuss these issues. Follow Worlds Apart on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldsApart_RT Like RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow RT on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios.
DebConf16
Google TechTalks June 15, 2006 Georg Greve, chairman of the FSF Europe explains priorities and strategies of the FSFEurope.
https://www.singularityweblog.com/richard-stallman-singularity-free-software/ Dr. Richard Stallman is an inductee of the internet hall of fame as well as the founder of the “Free Software” movement. In the words of Robert Grüning “Richard Stallman is like the Socrates of software, the money making colleagues are the sophists.” Another member of my audience said that Stallman is like Tron – he fights for the users. Yet Richard himself disliked both characterizations and called them misleading. So I suggest you check out my Singularity 1on1 interview with Richard Stallman, learn about the Free Software movement and judge for yourself. During our 1 hour discussion with Dr. Richard Stallman we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the misconceptions about and definition of Free Soft...
The way digital technology is developing, it threatens our freedom, within our computers and in the internet. What are the threats? What must we change? Official blog : https://blog.websummit.net/ Twitter : @WebSummit Facebook : @WebSummitHQ Instagram : @websummit #WebSummit
Benjamin Mako Hill talks about the Free Software Foundation. Recorded at LUG Radio Live USA 2008 at the Metreon Theatre, San Francisco. Some strong language.
Il film narra la storia del sistema operativo GNU/Linux, dalle sue origini al 2001, ponendo inoltre l'accento sulla differenza tra software libero e software open source e analizzando alcuni casi di programmi rilasciati sotto licenza libera (ad esempio Apache). Nel documentario non mancano le accuse contro la Microsoft e rivelazioni di protagonisti famosi. Nel corso del documentario vengono intervistati noti hacker ed imprenditori, tra cui Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker e Brian Behlendorf.
--Richard Stallman, Founder and Leader of the free software movement, joins David to discuss his creation of the computer operating system "GNU" and his skepticism over using proprietary software --On the Bonus Show: David's apartment problem, internal drama among progressive media, Fox News takes down its tweet about the Quebec City mosque shooting and much more... Support TDPS by clicking (bookmark it too!) this link before shopping on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=thedavpaksho-20 Website: https://www.davidpakman.com Become a Member: https://www.davidpakman.com/membership David's Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/david.pakman Discuss This on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow/ Support Our Sponsors: http://www.influencerbridge.com/davidpakman Facebook: http://www....
Description (English / Deutsch) In this Lecture, recorded on February 14, 2017, Richard Stallman ist talking about free software, your freedom and your privacy. Richard Stallman spricht in diesem Vortrag, aufgenommen am 14. Februar 2017 in Köln, über die Themen freie Software, Freiheit und Privatsphäre. --------------------------------------------------------- Our website / Unsere Website: https://call-a-tux.de Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/callatux Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/callatux --------------------------------------------------------- License (Creative Commons CC-BY-ND): This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ or sen...
Eben Moglen speaks on the thirtieth anniversary of the Free Software Foundation (October 2015).
The film begins with glimpses of Raymond, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman, then sets the historical stage in the early days of hackers and computer hobbyists when code was shared freely. It discusses how change came in 1978 as Bill Gates, in his Open Letter to Hobbyists, pointedly prodded hobbyists to pay up. Stallman relates his struggles with proprietary software vendors at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, leading to his departure to focus on the development of free software, and the GNU project. Torvalds describes the development of the Linux kernel, the GNU/Linux naming controversy, Linux's further evolution, and its commercialization. Raymond and Stallman clarify the philosophy of free software versus communism and capitalism, as well as the deve...
As of 2011, the Free Software Foundation is in its 26th year. John Sullivan was just named its new executive director in March, but has been with the FSF since 2003. Originally, the FSF's primary role was to develop and distribute free software. Much has changed in 26 years, as many others have joined the movement and started developing free software, and the FSF has evolved to take more of a leadership and steward role. John will give an overview of how the FSF works nowadays, what its current projects and campaigns are, and how people can get involved. Meeting hosted by the Greater Hartford GNU Linux Users Group of Connecticut: http://www.meetup.com/GHGLUG/ Follow along with the slides at: http://toastedalmonds.org/ghglug/2011-07-13_fsf/slides.pdf
John Sullivan http://debconf14-video.debian.net/video/249/debian-and-the-fsf-working-together-to-advance-fr https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/110/debian-and-the-fsf-working-together-to-advance-free-software/ Debian and the Free Software Foundation, along with its GNU Project, share many goals and ideals. They are two of the most mature and dedicated organizations working in the free software movement. Debian is not on the FSF's list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions. Why is this? Should something be done about it, and if so, what? Much attention has been focused on the question of full endorsement. But there are other opportunities for the FSF and Debian to work together, whether full endorsement becomes a reality or not. Let's review the history of this cooperatio...
In today's episode of the Lunduke Hour, I get the chance to sit down and chat with the one and only Richard Stallman. Founder of the Free Software Foundation. We talk about everything from the W3C's stance on DRM to opinions on the movie "Galaxy Quest". You can also watch this video over on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/LundukeHourApril14RMS More on the GNU Project: http://www.gnu.org/ == This episode sponsored by == System76: https://system76.com Pogo Linux: http://www.pogolinux.com/ == More about me == Like what I do? Want the audio podcast RSS feed version of this show? https://www.patreon.com/bryanlunduke My e-books, Cost-free & DRM-free, under the Creative Commons license: http://lunduke.com/book-store/
Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre April 25-27 Heather Marsh talking about Getgee.xyz and social and online media. https://www.cubaconf.org/schedule/day-1/ #CubaConf Read More: https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/getgee-tools-for-self-governance-part-1/ This is a video from the conference in Cuba (with translator) and audio from another talk (English only) georgiebc.wordpress.com.
March 18, 2006 - Turin, Italy - Richard Stallman talks about the future of free software and explains the process to update the GNU General Public License (GPL). The meeting is hosted by the Politecnico di Torino and it focuses on the goals of the Free Software Foundation in the process to update the license. The event is organised by Free Software Foundation Europe. Thanks to Hipatia [ http://hipatia.info/ ], NetStudent [ http://netstudent.polito.eu.org/ ] and Politecnico di Torino [ http://polito.it/ ] for their support. For further information on the GPLv3, and FSFE's work supporting the consultation process, see FSFE's GPLv3 project page [ http://fsfe.org/campaigns/gplv3/gplv3.en.html ]. Copyright 2006 Note: This video may only be used for purposes such as criticism, review, privat...