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Stallman's staunch advocacy for free software inspired the creation of the Virtual Richard M. Stallman , software that analyzes the packages currently installed on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and reports those that are from the non-free tree. [54] Stallman disagrees with parts of Debian's definition of free software. [55]
The free software movement also rejects proprietary software, refusing to install software that does not give them the freedoms of free software. According to Stallman, "The only thing in the software field that is worse than an unauthorised copy of a proprietary program, is an authorised copy of the proprietary program because this does the ...
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman is a collection of writings (mostly essays, with occasional articles, interviews and speech transcripts) by Richard Stallman.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman [6] on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, [7] such as with its own GNU General Public License. [8]
The Free Software Definition, written by Richard Stallman and published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that ensures that the users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software. The term "free" is used in the sense of "free speech," not of "free of charge."
According to Richard Stallman, user access to the source code makes deploying free software with undesirable hidden spyware functionality far more difficult than for proprietary software. [ 41 ] Some quantitative studies have been done on the subject.
The first goal of the GNU Project was to create a whole free-software operating system. Because UNIX was already widespread and ran on more powerful machines, compared to contemporary CP/M or MS-DOS machines of time, [18] it was decided it would be a Unix-like operating system. Richard Stallman later commented that he considered MS-DOS "a toy ...
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (ISBN 0-596-00287-4) is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License about the life of Richard Stallman, written by Sam Williams and published by O'Reilly Media on March 1, 2002.