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Free software is a very interesting (and important) concept. It was brought to mankind by Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org/>. Free software is copyrighted software with special licensing terms (the GPL, "General Public License") that allow users to copy, ameliorate, and redistribute software as long as the licensing terms don't restrict those rights.
Too many people simply "refuse" to see the ideology behind free software (unfortunately, that's the case of Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel author). Free software is not only good quality software. Free software tells you that your freedom is valuable. It tells you that it's good for a society when people can share good software with friends, without being stopped by a license refusing you this right, and can ameliorate/bugfix programs if they are technically literate. It tells you that proprietary software is taking away your freedom.
Because of these reasons, please promote and use Free Software.
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... please somebody explain to what's that part about Linus Torvalds ... I thought he was the founder of Linux ... and suporter of free software .. & stuff lik that ...
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