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crippler Send message Joined: 9 Jun 08 Posts: 58 Credit: 51,097 RAC: 0 |
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champ Send message Joined: 12 Mar 03 Posts: 3642 Credit: 1,489,147 RAC: 0 |
Can you enlighten me, what´s the story behind this? |
crippler Send message Joined: 9 Jun 08 Posts: 58 Credit: 51,097 RAC: 0 |
Can you enlighten me, what´s the story behind this? Well, GNU is free software in simple terms... "We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software. "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." Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:" Keep reading... Overall Philosophy |
Dominique Send message Joined: 3 Mar 05 Posts: 1628 Credit: 74,745 RAC: 0 |
Who's Birt and why does he have a special day? (Available for Proofreading. Cheap rate$$$.) |
crippler Send message Joined: 9 Jun 08 Posts: 58 Credit: 51,097 RAC: 0 |
Who's Birt and why does he have a special day? It's the GNU groups 25th birthday. They are a development community for free software. You may be more familiar with the term Linux. They make applications for the Linux kernel. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Who's Birt and why does he have a special day? I would like to say that the Free Software Foundation was founded by Richard Stallman, then at MIT, author of EMACS. They produced the GCC C compiler, now universally used not only in UNIX. Tullio |
Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Sounds good to me, I'm in favor of free. :]] Happy Birthday, Gnu!!!! |
crippler Send message Joined: 9 Jun 08 Posts: 58 Credit: 51,097 RAC: 0 |
Who's Birt and why does he have a special day? You and others should check out his personal page. It's great. http://www.stallman.org/ For you ladies out there please read his personal ad. http://www.stallman.org/extra/personal.html |
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