FREE SOFTWARE

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In this we discuss about free software, open-soure, Linux and free software founder

What is the free software?

“Free software” means software that gives freedom to users ,such that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a freedom usage of software, not price. it also known as “libre softwareFree”.

what is open source?

  Open source software is code that source code are publicly accessible by anyone can see, modify, and distribute the code as they see fit. Linux®, Ansible, and Kubernetes are some examples of open source projects. 

What is Linux?

Linux is a free, open source operating system and highly safe to user for usage, its gives public access to anyone. It released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). User can run, study, modify, and redistribute the source code, or even sell copies of their modified code, as long as they do so under the same license.It has become the largest open source project in the world.

Richard stallamen:

Richard Stallman, full name is  Richard Matthew Stallman . A American computer programmer and free-software advocate who founded ( 1985) the Free Software Foundation.  There he wrote the Emacs text editor in the C computer programming language with James Gosling (who later developed Java).

Linus Torvalds:

Linus Torvalds is a fellow at Linux foundation. Original architect and author of the ‘GIT’ source control management system, still active in development.

Jimmy Walles:

Jimmy Wales full name is Jimmy Donal Wales, American entrepreneur,  who cofounded Wikipedia, a free Internet-based Encylopaedia  operating under an open source management style.

References:

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/

https://www.redhat.com/https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/

https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

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