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About free software
Principles
What is Free Software?
"Free software
means software that respects
users' freedom and community Roughly, it
means that the users have the freedom to
run;
copy; distribute, study; change and
improve the software: Thus,
free software"
is a matter of
liberty, not price. To understand
the concept; you should think of "free" as in
speech
not as in
beer:
We
sometimes call it
software,
borrowing
the French or Spanish word for "free
as in
ireedon; to show we do not mean the
software i5
You may have
money t0 get copies of a
free program, Or you may have obtained
conies ar no chharge
But regardless of how
#free
#free
~libre
gratis.
paid