What Is the Free Software Foundation?

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is an American civil non-profit organization dedicated to promoting free software and promoting the freedom of computer users. It was established in October 1985 by Richard Stallman. Its main work is to implement the GNU project, develop more free software, and improve the concept of free software.

Free Software Foundation

Free Software Foundation (Free Software Foundation,

The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the freedom of computer users. From its establishment until the mid-1990s, the Free Software Foundation's funds were used to hire programmers to develop free software. There are too many companies and individuals writing free software since the mid-1990s, so employees and volunteers of the Free Software Foundation are mainly in

GNU Project

The Free Software Foundation's original purpose was to promote the development of free software, but the Free Software Foundation also developed

2011 Yukihiro Matsumoto

2010 Rob Savoye

2009 John Gilmore

2008 Wietse Venema

2007 Harald Welte

2006 Ted Ts'o

2005 Andrew Tridgell

2004 Theo de Raadt

2003 Alan Cox

2002 Lawrence Lessig

2001 Guido van Rossum

2000 Brian Paul

1999 Miguel de Icaza

1998 Larry Wall

Year 1999:

The Free Software Foundation has listed a list of high priority projects. The FSF believes that these projects need the attention of the free software community. There is no free software that can be used to replace non-free software in the projects developed by these projects.

Current plans:

GNU PDF

Gnash-Free Flash player software

Coreboot-a free BIOS movement

GNU libffcall-a free software alternative to Skype

Kdenlive- a free video editing software

A free software alternative to Google Earth

gNewSense-A GNU / Linux operating system using only free software.

GNU Octave-a free software alternative to Matlab

Replace OpenDWG library

A free software supporting RAR version 3

GDB reversible debugging