Free Software

I use this page as a collector for all important websites, webpages, links, … about ‘Free Software’.

I know that the expression ‘Free Software’ is not entirely correct to describe the subject of this section, but I will stick to it for simplicity’s sake. I use the term as an abbreviation for the (different) movements about ‘Free software’, ‘Open Source’, and the like.

If you are really interested in this subject, please do read the article paper “The Ethics of Free Software” by Bertrand Meyer!

Documents by Richard Stallman

• “GNU Manifesto” (Richard Stallman, 1985)

Documents by Eric Raymond

• “The Cathedral and The Bazaar” (Eric S.Raymond, 1998) (link updated on 2018-07-14)
• “The Halloween Documents” (Eric S.Raymond, 1998) (link updated on 2018-07-14)
• “Homesteading the Noosphere” (Eric S.Raymond, 1998) (link updated on 2018-07-14)

Documents by Bertrand Meyer

• “The Ethics of Free Software” (Bertrand Meyer, 2000) (link updated on 2018-07-12)

Interesting articles on the Web

• “Debunking Open-Source Myths: Development and Support” (Gartner Group, 2000) (redirected to the Wayback Machine on 2018-07-12)

Interesting sites about this subject

• Free Software Foundation
• GNU
• Free Software
• www.opensource.org
• SlashDot
• www.freebsd.org, www.netbsd.org, www.openbsd.org, www.linux.org, etc.
• www.opensourceit.com
• FreeCode, Free Programming Source Code for Windows and/or Unix

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