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"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 "free speech," not as in "free beer".

"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 "free speech," not as in "free beer".

 

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  • r/FSF - Free Software Foundation

  • r/GNU - operating system and an extensive collection of computer software

  • r/LinuxLibre - a version of the Linux kernel that doesn't have non-free components

  • r/Hurd - kernel for the GNU system

  • r/FOSSdroid - Free Software for the Android platform

  • r/libreboot - Free Software BIOS and UEFI alternative

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    I made a small app to automatically change wallpaper

    https://preview.redd.it/yu40dl6bc82e1.jpg?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee9e58b03ed9ef1d1be356010595e1105ac2dc25

    Hey, recently I was working on this small windows app that automatically changes your wallpaper by time: https://simonfurlan.github.io/DynamicWallpaperTool/

    I made it with Visual Studio WPF C#.

    Im looking for people who want to help me test it or just try it.

    Has anyone suggestions what I can add to this tool?

    2 Comments
    2024/11/21
    11:03 UTC

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    Is It Possible to Reconcile Open Source and GAFAM?

    9 Comments
    2024/11/20
    08:18 UTC

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    How to make my video game made with Godot free?

    I am making an indie video game with Godot and I want to license it under the GNU GPL.

    How should I go about making it completely free?

    Should my scripts have the copyright notice? Should I distribute Godot's source code with it?

    2 Comments
    2024/11/17
    16:49 UTC

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    Be like SQLite, publish to the public domain

    25 Comments
    2024/11/17
    15:53 UTC

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    Asset Management Software Help

    Can anyone recommend a program that allows you to manage your assets from anywhere, includes maintenance features, and makes inventory tracking easy? Does anyone know of a software like that?

    9 Comments
    2024/11/16
    11:09 UTC

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    What’s your Free software story?

    Call to all free software enthusiasts to share their story and relive their experiences of the huddle for freedom. At what point did u stop listening to Richard M Stallman? Are you still listening and following? #software

    9 Comments
    2024/11/14
    14:33 UTC

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    EU consultation confirms demand: long-term funding for Free Software is needed

    The FSFE called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for Free Software after recent budget cuts. Results show its success.

    2 Comments
    2024/11/13
    17:02 UTC

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    Suggestion-For Video Editing

    Free Sw for basic video edits

    8 Comments
    2024/11/10
    04:36 UTC

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    Alternative frontend of DeviantArt?

    Is there an alternative frontend of DeviantArt, like Invidious, Nitter?

    0 Comments
    2024/11/09
    20:41 UTC

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    What is the Best PDF reader/editer

    Hello All, New to your group. Title say it all. Looking for realistic alternatives to Adobe & Foxit, I've used libra draw for a while but this doesn't scale a lot of the time.

    Looking for something simple with no bloating and a little bit of editing capability would be nice. Not Cloud Based ---- Any recommendations??

    31 Comments
    2024/11/09
    17:01 UTC

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    Vim developer Bram Moolenaar posthumously receives the European SFS Award - FSFE

    The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Linux User Group Bolzano-Bozen (LUGBZ) posthumously honored Bram Moolenaar, creator of the widely used Vim text editor, with the European SFS Award at SFSCON 2024. This award celebrates Moolenaar’s invaluable contributions to the Free Software community.

    2 Comments
    2024/11/08
    14:09 UTC

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    Is there any way to change pdf text colour and background colour (with no change to image colour)?

    The colour change should be to pdf file itself and not limited to a particular app

    1 Comment
    2024/11/03
    08:58 UTC

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    vscode remote SSH requires non-free software installed on the server

    One of my colleges tried to use vscode to develop on an internal server with the Remote SSH plugin, however, after the connection, vscode says it needs to download some vscode-server on the server. After reading some articles from Microsoft, I see vscode-server is non-free. And now I still can't find a replace of this.

    https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server#_can-i-host-the-vs-code-server-as-a-service

    And it looks like the remote extensions are not free either.

    https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the-remote-development-extensions-or-their-components-open-source

    9 Comments
    2024/11/01
    07:04 UTC

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    Free IPTV player for windows and open source…

    I developed two open-source IPTV players for Windows using Python, each with unique login methods:

    •	One player authenticates using a MAC address.
    •	The other supports logging in via an M3U Plus URL or through Xtream Codes with a username and password.

    You can explore both projects here: https://github.com/Cyogenus

    0 Comments
    2024/10/30
    09:35 UTC

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    Supreme Sexp System - SSS - a Lisp machine adventure with Emacs, Guix, StumpWM, Nix, and more

    0 Comments
    2024/10/17
    21:00 UTC

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    Prohibition of proprietary software in free software

    Is software that prohibits the use of proprietary software in free software free?

    9 Comments
    2024/10/14
    12:38 UTC

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