Free Software – free speech, not free beer

Free Software

free speech, not free beer

Free Software

• Users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software
• Open Source
• A social movement
• It's all about ethics

A program is free software if users have four essential freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0)
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2)
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3)

With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them. When users don't control the program, the program controls the users. The developer controls the program, and through it exercises power over the users. Therefore, a “non-free” or “proprietary” program is an instrument of unjust power.

"GNU - FSF"

Open Source Software (OSS)

• Source code
• A development methodology
• Non-free software

Free and open-source software (FOSS)

WordPress

• Founded in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
• As of August 2013, almost a fifth of all websites run WordPress
• Based on PHP and MySQL

wordpress.org

wordpress.com

What kind of website can I build with WordPress?

• Business
• Informative
• Review-based
• Personal
• Photo Galleries

This presentation

reveal.js

github.com/mrw4n/freesoftware

Based on Git Introduction by Luis Ibanez

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