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What is free software?

Free software is software that respects the 4 software freedoms. The 4 freedoms are

The freedom to run the run the program
The freedom to study the source code
The freedom to modify the source code
The freedom to distribute modified versions of the source code

Please note: Free software does not relate to monetary price. Free software can be sold or gratis (no cost)

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How I Fought To Graduate Without Using Nonfree Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (www.gnu.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How a student fought to do their degree without submitting to proprietary (Microsoft, Google, Oracle etc) software and services that lecturers & admins demanded, and only use free software instead (like Jami, Jitsi Meet, PostgreSQL etc).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why use double negation? A better title would be: "How I Fought To Graduate Using Only Free Software.

Anyway, good article. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Saying "non-free" instead of "proprietary" better explains there is an issue to readers unfamiliar with software freedom, I suppose.