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About FSF India

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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.

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The special need of free software community in the + current historical context.

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Background

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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.

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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.

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The Free Software Foundation

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The owners of software had erected walls to divide + us from each other.

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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.)

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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 GNU project in + 1983 to develop the free operating system GNU (a recursive + acronym for GNU’s Not Unix).

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In 1985 Stallman founded the Free + Software Foundation + (FSF), dedicated to promoting computer users’ + rights to use, study, copy, modify and + redistribute computer programs.

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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.

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The FSF (fsf.org), + 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.

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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.

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FSF India

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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.

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FSF India will be the national agency for the + promotion of the use of free + software, + i.e. software distributed under the + GNU General + Public Licence (GNU GPL) or + other + licences + approved by FSF, in all domains.

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The Vision of FSF India

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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.

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To do so, FSF India will:

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  • Promote awareness about free software among + the general public and, specifically, among + programmers and students.

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  • Increase access to free software by users + in India.

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  • Promote the development of local solutions + to local problems by empowering local + programmers in the use of free platforms, + tools and technologies.

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  • Provide support to free software by way of + documentation, expert help or any other means.

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  • Help organize training for programmers and + users of free software platforms and software.

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  • Carry out R&D work for free software + solutions to suit local requirements.

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  • Provide services for the free software + programmer community by, for example, locating + and distributing jobs.

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  • 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.

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  • Provide services such as adjudication and + conflict redressal within the free software + domain.

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