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diff --git a/html/about/index.html b/html/about/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 92e1019..0000000 --- a/html/about/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,171 +0,0 @@ -<!--#include virtual="/includes/html-open.html"--> - -<!--#include virtual="/includes/header-open.html"--> -<title>Free Software Foundation India</title> -<!--#include virtual="/includes/header-close.html"--> - -<!--#include virtual="/includes/body-open.html"--> -<!--#include virtual="/includes/navbar.html"--> - -<div class="container main"> - <section class="section"> - <div class="content"> - - <header> - <h1>About FSF India</h1> - </header> - - <p>The Free Software Foundation India (FSF India) is a - nonprofit organisation committed to advocating, - promoting and propagating the use and development of - free (swatantra) software in India.</p> - - <p>The special need of free software community in the - current historical context.</p> - - - <h2>Background</h2> - - <p>As the computer continues to become increasingly - pervasive in our personal, social and working - lives, the soul of the machine — software — is - seemingly trapped in a battle of proprietary - ownership.</p> - - <p>In the early days of computing, it was customary for - programmers to share software. Since the 1970s, - however, much software has become proprietary, such - that its users have been prevented from sharing, let - alone modifying, programs. By the 1980s, proprietary - software had become commonplace, and the computing - community was losing the freedom to cooperate in using - and altering software. Freedom was under attack.</p> - - - <h2>The Free Software Foundation</h2> - - <blockquote> - <p>The owners of software had erected walls to divide - us from each other.</p> - </blockquote> - - <p>Those words came from the one person who has - zealously campaigned to safeguard software - freedoms–Richard M. Stallman, a celebrated - programmer and an accomplished hacker. (Contrary - to popular belief, a hacker is not an anti-social - being. S/he is someone who is passionate, even - obsessive, about programming, as opposed to a - cracker, someone who breaks security on a system, - often with malicious intent.)</p> - - <p>Stallman, then working at MIT’s Artificial - Intelligence Lab, left to pursue the Free Software - Movement in 1984, inspired by the ideals of - American independence: freedom, community and - voluntary co-operation, which leads to free - enterprise, free speech and free software. He had - already started the <a href="https://gnu.org">GNU project</a> in - 1983 to develop the free operating system GNU (a recursive - acronym for GNU’s Not Unix).</p> - - <p>In 1985 Stallman founded the <a href="https://fsf.org">Free - Software Foundation</a> - (FSF), dedicated to promoting computer users’ - rights to use, study, copy, modify and - redistribute computer programs.</p> - - <p>The FSF promotes the development and use of free - software and free documentation. In particular, - FSF promotes the GNU operating system, used widely - today in its GNU/Linux variant, based on the Linux - kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. These systems - are often mistakenly called just `Linux’; calling - them `GNU/Linux’ corrects this confusion.</p> - - <p>The FSF (<a href="https://fsf.org">fsf.org</a>), - whose headquarters is in Boston, Massachusetts, - USA, is a tax-exempt charity for free software - development. It raises funds by selling GNU - CD-ROMs, T-shirts, manuals and deluxe - distributions (all of which users are free to copy - and change), as well as from donations.</p> - - <p>The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the - ethical and political issues of freedom in the use - of software. The FSF believes that free software - is a matter of freedom, not price.</p> - - <h2>FSF India</h2> - - <p>The Free Software Foundation of India (FSF India), - the official Indian affiliate of the FSF, was - formally inaugurated by Richard Stallman at the - Freedom First! Conference at Thiruvanathapuram, - Kerala on 20 July 2001.</p> - - <p>FSF India will be the national agency for the - promotion of the use of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free - software</a>, - i.e. software distributed under the - <a href="https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl">GNU General - Public Licence (GNU GPL)</a> or - <a href="https://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html">other - licences</a> - approved by FSF, in all domains.</p> - - <h2>The Vision of FSF India</h2> - - <p>Broadly, FSF India will strive to ensure that free - software is strengthened in all respects so as to form - a genuine, credible and viable alternative to - proprietary software for every kind of application.</p> - - <p>To do so, FSF India will:</p> - - <ul> - <li><p>Promote awareness about free software among - the general public and, specifically, among - programmers and students.</p></li> - - <li><p>Increase access to free software by users - in India.</p></li> - - <li><p>Promote the development of local solutions - to local problems by empowering local - programmers in the use of free platforms, - tools and technologies.</p></li> - - <li><p>Provide support to free software by way of - documentation, expert help or any other means.</p></li> - - <li><p>Help organize training for programmers and - users of free software platforms and software.</p></li> - - <li><p>Carry out R&D work for free software - solutions to suit local requirements.</p></li> - - <li><p>Provide services for the free software - programmer community by, for example, locating - and distributing jobs.</p></li> - - <li><p>Assist the national and State governments - in all aspects relating to free software, such - as evolving and maintaining standards; - providing a quality assurance mechanism for - free software; and ensuring the use of free - software in government and quasi-government - milieux.</p></li> - - <li><p>Provide services such as adjudication and - conflict redressal within the free software - domain.</p></li> - </ul> - </div> - </section> -</div> - -<!--#include virtual="/includes/footer.html"--> -<!--#include virtual="/includes/js.html"--> -<!--#include virtual="/includes/body-close.html"--> -<!--#include virtual="/includes/html-close.html"--> |