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Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has immunity from the arbitrary exercise of authority. ...
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Group of women holding placards with political activist slogans: know your courts - study your politicians, Liberty in law, Law makers must not be law breakers, and character in candidates photo 1920 Freedom of assembly is the freedom to associate with, or organize any groups, gatherings, clubs, or organizations that one...
Freedom of association is a Constitutional (legal) concept based on the premise that it is the right of free adults to mutually choose their associates for whatever purpose they see fit. ...
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Morphological freedom is, according to neuroscientist Anders Sandberg, an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires. ...
Civil liberties is the name given to freedoms that protect the individual from government. ...
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Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ...
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guarantees freedom of religion, as long as religious activities do not infringe on public order in ways detrimental to society. ...
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This article is about freedom of speech as a general concept. ...
Freedom of thought (also called freedom of conscience and freedom of ideas) is the freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, regardless of anyone elses view. ...
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Censorship is the removal or withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body. ...
Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to act by employing threat of harm (usually physical force, sometimes other forms of harm). ...
Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
There are several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world and rank countries as being free, partly free, or unfree using various measures of freedom, including political rights, economic rights, and civil liberties. ...
Media Transparency is the concept of determining how and why information is conveyed through various means. ...
The philosophical concept of negative liberty refers to an individuals liberty from being subjected to the authority of others. ...
Positive liberty is an idea that was first expressed and analyzed as a separate conception of liberty by John Stuart Mill but most notably described by Isaiah Berlin. ...
Self-ownership
This box: view • talk • edit | The free software movement, also known as the free software philosophy, began in 1983 when Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project.[1] It is a social movement which aims to change the rights which software users have. In terms of social movements, it is classed as a new social movement. Self-ownership (aka the soveriegnty of the individual or individual sovereignty) is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life. ...
Richard Matthew Stallman (often substituted as RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ...
The GNU logo, drawn by Etienne Suvasa The GNU Project was announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. ...
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The term new social movements (NSM) refers to a plethora of social movements that have come up in various western societies roughly since the mid-1960s (i. ...
Philosophy
Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement.[2] The philosophy of the movement is to give freedom to computer users by replacing proprietary software under restrictive licensing terms with free software,[3] with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone in cyberspace.[4] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ...
Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ...
Software, consisting of programs, enables a computer to perform specific tasks, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). ...
This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...
Members of the free software movement believe that all software should come with the freedoms listed in the free software definition.[5] Many hold that it is immoral to prohibit or prevent people from exercising these freedoms and that these freedoms are required to create a decent society where software users can help each other, and to have control over their computer.[6] This article is about free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. ...
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Some adherents to the free software movement do not believe that proprietary software is strictly immoral.[7] They argue freedom is valuable (both socially and pragmatically) as a property of software in its own right, separate from technical quality in a narrow sense. Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ...
The free software movement also believes all software needs free documentation, but does not take a strong position on other types of works.[8] Members of the free software movement advocate works that serve a practical purpose should also be free. In general terms, documentation is any communicable material (such as text, video, audio, etc. ...
Actions
Writing and spreading free software The first actions of the free software movement was to write software.
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 same harm to its whole community of users, and in addition, usually the developer, the perpetrator of this evil, profits from it."[9]suck dick
Building awareness Some supporters of the free software movement take up public speaking, or host a stall at software-related conferences to raise awareness of software freedom. This is seen as important since people who receive free software, but who aren't aware that it is free software, will later accept a non-free replacement or will add software which is not free software [10]. Public speaking is speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners. ...
Legislation Political acts include campaigning against software patents and expansions of copyright law. Software patent does not have a universally accepted definition. ...
Venezuela, under Hugo Chavez's presidency, implemented a free software law in January 2006. Directive 3.390 mandated all government agencies to migrate to free software over a two year period [1]. President Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954) has been the President of Venezuela since 1999. ...
Congressmen Dr Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on "Free Software in Public Administration". // Dr Edgar David Villanueva is credited with introducing a Bill in Republic of Peru which mandates use of Free Software in Public Agencies. ...
The incident immediately invited the attention of Microsoft Inc, Peru, whose General Manager wrote a letter to Dr Edgar David Villanueva. Dr Edgar's response received worldwide attention and is still seen as a classical piece of argumentation favouring use of Free Software in Governments.[2]
Open Source In 1998, some companies met to create a marketing campaign for free software which would focus on technology rather than ethics. After this Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens, founded Open Source Initiative OSI, which promotes the term open-source software as an alternative term for free software. OSI does not agree with the free software movement's position that non-free software is a social problem or that it is unethical.[11] Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) (often referred to by his initials, ESR) is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as The New Hackers Dictionary). Though the Jargon File established his original reputation...
Bruce Perens is a prominent figure in the open source movement and to some extent in the free software movement. ...
The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. ...
Open source software is an antonym for closed source software and refers to any computer software whose source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. ...
From the early 90s onward, alternative terms for free software have come into common use, with much debate in the free software community. ...
OSI advocates free software (under the name "open-source software") on the basis that it is a superior model for software development. To free software movement, this is tangental, if true at all. Sometimes free software is better than proprietary software, and sometimes it isn't, but proprietary software is always unacceptable because of the unethical restrictions it imposes on the user community.[12]
OSI published a definition of open-source software. It's definition is worded differently to the Free Software Definition, but the meaning is practically identical. Almost all open-source software is also free software, and vice verse, with only obscure exceptions. One exception is the defunct Netscape Public License, which was used for some previous releases of Mozilla but is no longer used for any software, and another is a little-used licence published by RealNetworks. This article is about free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. ...
The Netscape Public License (NPL) is a free software license, the license under which Netscape Communications Corporation originally released Mozilla. ...
Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, nowadays called SeaMonkey suite. ...
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References - ^ Free software liberates Venezuela, Free Software Magazine n°10, 2006-02-08 (English)
- ^ Peruvian Congressmean Edgar Villanueva writing to Microsoft about free software..
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ...
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The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ...
The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman at the beginning of the GNU Project, to ask for participation and support. ...
The Free Culture Movement is a student led movement that supports freedom of speech on the Internet and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which, members of the movement argue, hinders creativity. ...
// The free software community is also called the open source community or the Linux community. ...
External links - What is Free Software? - Essay by Karl Vogel.
- 15 Years of Free Software - Richard Stallman on the 15th Birthday of GNU.
- The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom, a lecture by Richard Stallman
- The GNU Project Philosophy Directory, containing many defining documents of the free software movement
- An interview with Stallman, "Free Software as a social movement"
- Christian Imhorst, Anarchy and Source Code - What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?, published under the terms of the GFDL (2005)
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