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==About Free Software==
 
==About Free Software==
 
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects—such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline—in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe software users should be able to make use of them. [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html gnu.org]
 
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects—such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline—in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe software users should be able to make use of them. [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html gnu.org]
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* [[What is GNU?]]
 
* [[What is Free Software?]]
 
* [[What is Free Software?]]
* [[Why Software Should Not Have Owners]]
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* [[What is the Free Software Foundation?]]
* [[Why Software Should Be Free (This is an older and longer essay about the same topic as the previous one)]]
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* [[Why Should Software Not Have Owners?]]
* [[Why Free Software Needs Free Documentation]]
 
* [[Selling Free Software is OK!]]
 
* [[Categories of Free and Non-Free Software]]
 
* [[Free Software is More Reliable!]]
 
* [[Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software]]
 
* [[Linux, GNU, and Freedom]]
 
* [[Regarding Gnutella]]
 
* [[Why Schools Should Use Exclusively Free Software]]
 
* [[MyDoom and You]]
 
* [[15 Years of Free Software]]
 
* [[Free Software movement]]
 
* [[Your Freedom Needs Free Software]]
 
* [[Motives For Writing Free Software]]
 
  
 
==Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses==
 
==Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses==
 
[http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html /view?searchterm=frequently%20asked%20questions Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses]
 
[http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html /view?searchterm=frequently%20asked%20questions Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses]

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Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects—such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline—in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe software users should be able to make use of them. gnu.org

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