https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Free_softwareFree software - Revision history2026-05-04T15:15:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Free_software&diff=45489&oldid=prevJukeboksi: tweaking intro, adding copyleft2016-09-10T14:20:10Z<p>tweaking intro, adding <a href="/wiki/Copyleft" title="Copyleft">copyleft</a></p>
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</table>Jukeboksihttps://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Free_software&diff=13764&oldid=prev142.177.85.73: much enhanced, links to relevant articles; introducing what it IS before getting into pros and cons, more work invited2004-02-26T03:09:54Z<p>much enhanced, links to relevant articles; introducing what it IS before getting into pros and cons, more work invited</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Free software''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is only good if it spreads </del>a [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moral purchasing</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ideal</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Just "demand software for free" isn't good enough (nor </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it an accurate portrayal </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meaning of </del>software <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">freedom</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">free </del>software <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">movement champions)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Free software''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">refers to </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"freedom to share and modify software" as advocated by the </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free Software Foundation</ins>]]. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Freedom of use </ins>is of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">course only available to those who have the hardware and expertise to use </ins>the software, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">whose needs are addressed by </ins>the software. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Freedom to modify is of course only available to those who have the skills, education and time to learn sometimes very complex and involved code, often in low level languages such as C. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free software </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however, built on discouraging anyone from distributing software for a fee. In fact</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"free" in free software has to do with freedom to share and modify software</del>, not <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an issue </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">price. Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement, distributed the free software he wrote for a fee for quite some time and was able to live based </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what he made. The Free Software Foundation encourages people to distribute free software for the highest price the market will bear so that one makes money one can use in the development of more free software. That one can get </del>free <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">software at no fee is a side-effect of the ability to share the </del>software.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] may decide that some other balance of freedoms </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appropriate to maximize delivery of [[Consumerium Services]]</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so it is</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as stated in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Consumerium:FAQ]]</ins>, not <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a feature </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Consumerium that it rely entirely </ins>on free software.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In time, businesses <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would be </del>built on free software (such as Cygnus and Red Hat) and do quite well both in terms of their own ability to stay in business and their contributions to the free software <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">community</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There are also [[problems with free software and open source models]] that relate to the [[license]]s they use, such as [[no discrimination against fields of endeavour]] (which [[Green Patent License]] seeks to address) and the [[viral license]] or [[share-alike]] issue, which some also consider onerous (thus, [[open source]] omits it). There are issues of enforcement that are perhaps better addressed via a [[consortium license]].</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free software is not a movement to discourage anyone from distributing software for a fee. Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement, distributed the free software he wrote for a fee for quite some time and was able to live based on what he made. ''This claim is contested as the FSF got many donations during that period.'' It is difficult sometimes to separate the FSF and Stallman personally from the movement that he defined and founded. The word '''copyleft''' which refers to a [[copyright]] that is licensed widely and used to prevent other copyrights from interfering with the "Freedoms", was coined by Don Hopkins, however, and should not be assumed to mean strictly the Stallman model.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>142.177.85.73https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Free_software&diff=2588&oldid=prev12.221.65.105: Deleted anti-career language because it is not true today and historically inaccurate. The replacement text explains why the previous text was inaccurate.2004-02-25T06:07:38Z<p>Deleted anti-career language because it is not true today and historically inaccurate. The replacement text explains why the previous text was inaccurate.</p>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Free software''' is only good if it spreads a [[moral purchasing]] ideal. Just "demand software for free" isn't good enough, although, it does discourage anyone from making a career out of software, which is definitely a good thing.</div>142.177.81.58