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The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software. [1] [2] Software which meets these requirements, The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, is termed free software .
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Launch of the free software movement Main article: Free software movement In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project to write a complete operating system free from constraints on use of its source code.
In the early 1980’s Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation: a socio-technological movement that revolutionized the software world. Stallman and Tim O’Reilly – a pioneer of Open Source – tell the story. This article is a transcript of a podcast. Listen to the podcast: Part I: https://audio.simplecast.com/f5c3e7e6.mp3.
In 1984, Richard Stallman started the free software movement when he began the GNU project. Examples of free software are Linux (the kernel), Blender, OpenBSD, Inkscape and others. Wikipedia also uses free software.