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Pleilasophy: Why we do it and
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C Miss on: Creatt]
Free @perating System
Cn Values: Howithe Debian Communit Wiorks
Our Mission: Creating a Free Operating System
The Debian Project is an association of individuals, sharing
common
We want t0 create
free operating system , freely available for everyone.
Now; when we use the word " free'
we re nol -
talking about money; instead,
we are
referring
soitware freedom.
Qur _Definition of Free_Software
Read the_Free_Software_Foundation's statement
Maybe you re wondering why so many people choose t0 spend lots of hours
of their own time writing software
carefully packaging and maintaining
just
to give it all away without charging for it? Well, there are plenty of reasons;
here are some of them:
Some people simply like to help others, and contributing
free
software project is
way t0 accomplish this_
Many developers write programs
eam
about computers_
different
architectures, and programming languages
Some developers contribute
say "thank you'
for all the great free
software they've received from others_
Many people
academia create free software
share the results of their
research:
Companies also help maintaining free software: t0 influence how
applications develop or to implement new features quickly:
Of course;
MoSi
Debian developers participate_
because they think its
great fun!
Although we believe in free software
we respect that people sometimes
have
install non-free software on their machines
whether they
not: We have decided t0 support these users, wheneve
possible. There is
growing number
packages which install non-free software on
Debian
system:
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