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Free software
Free Software is software that is licensed under aFree Software License.Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation to promote free software and theGPL License.
Open Source[]
The term Free Software caused confusion in the business community as it lead many to believe that the resulting software could not be charged for. So a large part of the Free Software Community decided to use the termOpen Source instead. This is seen as a turning point in the open source movment as more businesses became involved and the community become centered more around Linux than theFree Software Foundation.
Examples of Free Software[]
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