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What is free software?

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  1. The Free Software Foundation’s official page:http://www.fsf.org/

  2. In 1986, Richard Stallman received an Ph.D from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. This is an URL to his acceptance speech. An absolute most read.http://www.gnn.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.htmL

  3. Richard Dawkins, ‘TheSelfish Gene’, Oxford University Press 1976.

  4. E S Raymond’s influential article ‘TheCathedral and the Bazaar’: http://www.earthspace.net/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India

    V. Vinay

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Vinay, V. What is free software?. Reson 4, 73–78 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02838343

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