Top Page
|
Miscellaneous free software stuff In the
past six months, I have become a sometimes annoyingly outspoken
advocate of free software, and a semi-skilled user of it. There is
some controversy over the term "free software". For my rather limited
greedy purposes, I mostly define it as software that you can download
for free. However, the other far more talented free software
advocates in the world usually define "free software" as Open Source -
that is, the source code is published along with the working programs.
Even in this community there is strife, as people debate to what uses
open-source or free software can be put. However, below I will list
some groups that produce free software, groups that merely advocate
free software, and sites that allow you to download free or
open-source software. Currently, aside from Windows 98, every piece
of software I use on a regular basis at home is free for download or
open-source: Cygwin for accessing command line tools (like the Java
compiler and virtual machine), Netscape for surfing and email, and
Emacs for writing code and HTML (like this page.)
|
