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| Free Software is Winning | | =Organizations= |
| | [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation] |
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| The Free Network Movement owes an incredible debt to the Free Software Movement, and pledges them our ongoing support.
| | Dedicated to the creation and propagation of free software; sponsor and umbrella organization for the GNU Project. |
| It was pioneers such as Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and John Perry Barlow who initialized this struggle for our freedom. It is to these pioneers that we turn for inspiration and guidance. If not for early and decisive court victories won by Stallman, Moglen, and the Free Software Foundation, it is doubtful that we would today be in a position to advocate for the liberation of cyberspace.
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| The legacy of the Free Software Movement, however, goes beyond ideology.
| | [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Law Center] |
| Open-source networking software will be integral to the development and growth of the Free Network. As such, members of the Free Network Movement are currently contributing code to the Diaspora* project.
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| Diaspora* will be a secure, elegant, and open-source personal web server application. It is being designed to facilitate the creation of a full featured, highly customizable, and privacy aware peer-to-peer social network. Diaspora* is currently in alpha release, and a large community of programmers has taken ownership of building this software for a new type of network. We believe that the wide release of Diaspora* will be a seminal event in the evolution of our nascent global network.
| | Provider of legal representation and other legal services to free-software developers. |
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| Still, Freenet’s commitment to free software goes beyond a single application.
| | [http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ FreedomBox Foundation] |
| We hold that certain types of essential software should be free.
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| The invention and improvement of the digital computer over the last sixty has given humanity the ability to reproduce some of its most valuable tools at zero marginal cost. The ethical and philosophical implications of this changing mode of events are many. The notion that we abstain from distributing useful software to those who could use it, despite the fact that it costs nothing to reproduce, is absurd not only from a theoretical standpoint, but also from the standpoint of real and applied economics. | | The organizational headquarters for work making free software to run on small-format server boxes. The goal is to make available inexpensive appliances that “human beings will like interacting with that produce privacy and help to secure robust freedom.” |
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| | =Related Ideas= |
| | [[Free software]] |
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| | [[Diaspora]] |
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| | [[Ubuntu]] |
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| | [[Security]] |
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| | =Prominent Thinkers= |
| | [http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/ Andrew Feenberg] |
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| | [[Richard Stallman]] |
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| | =Recommended Reading= |
| | [[Free Software is Winning]] by [[user:isaac| isaac]] |
Organizations
Free Software Foundation
Dedicated to the creation and propagation of free software; sponsor and umbrella organization for the GNU Project.
Software Freedom Law Center
Provider of legal representation and other legal services to free-software developers.
FreedomBox Foundation
The organizational headquarters for work making free software to run on small-format server boxes. The goal is to make available inexpensive appliances that “human beings will like interacting with that produce privacy and help to secure robust freedom.”
Related Ideas
Free software
Diaspora
Ubuntu
Security
Prominent Thinkers
Andrew Feenberg
Richard Stallman
Recommended Reading
Free Software is Winning by isaac