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FSFFree Software Foundation
FSFFédération Sénégalaise de Football (French: Senegalese Football Federation; Senegal)
FSFFinancial Stability Forum
FSFFlight Safety Foundation
FSFFile System Factory
FSFFurther Seems Forever (band)
FSFFinished Square Feet (realty)
FSFFinancial-Services Firm
FSFForum de Stabilité Financière (French: Financial Stability Forum)
FSFFlorida State Fair (Tampa, FL)
FSFFrequency-Selective Fading
FSFFlorida Sports Foundation
FSFForeign Security Force
FSFFédération des Stomisés de France (French: Ostomy Federation of France)
FSFFuel Storage Facility
FSFFirefighters Support Foundation (Greenfield, MA)
FSFFourth Suit Forcing (bridge game)
FSFThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
FSFFibrin Stabilizing Factor
FSFFacilities Security Force (various locations)
FSFFamilies Supporting Families
FSFFootballeurs sans Frontières (French: Football Players without Borders)
FSFFriends of Science Fiction
FSFFiscales Sin Fronteras (Spanish: Public Prosecutors Without Borders)
FSFFirst Strike Force (gaming clan)
FSFFile System Factory (software)
FSFFótbóltssamband Føroya (Faroe Islands Football Association)
FSFFederation Sim Fleet (Star Trek role playing and simming organization)
FSFFast Sea Frame
FSFFédération Sud Finance (French: South Finance Federation)
FSFFirst Serve Fault (Tennis)
FSFFirst Step Fund (Kansas City, MO)
FSFForward Sioux Falls (Sioux Falls, SD)
FSFFrequency Scaling Factor
FSFFinlands Svenska Folkdansring (Swedish: Finnish Swedish Folkdance Ring)
FSFFolder-Staging Facility (Social Security)
FSFForward Support Facility
FSFFemale Seeking Female (personal ads)
FSFFirearms Storage Facility
FSFFlexible Storage Facility
FSFFreiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen eV
FSFFrederiksberg Skøjteløberforening (Denmark)
FSFFlight Simulation Forum (website)
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'A crucial element in this strategy was to choose a label that sounded less threatening to status quo than the term "free software." Free software, as the Free Software Foundation never fails to point out, concerns first and foremost the question of freedom.
A critical overview of the digital knowledge commons from a Marxist perspective
provisions, according to the Free Software Foundation, protect the
Open source semiconductor core licensing
on providing whatever information is required to enable a recipient to replace the object code with a functioning modified version." FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, GPLv3 THIRD DISCUSSION DRAFT RATIONALE 9 (2007), available at http://www.gplv3.fsf.org/rationale.
Open source license proliferation: helpful diversity or hopeless confusion?
The Free Software Foundation took on Microsoft and its allies in 2007 with amendments to their General Public License aimed at hampering a cross-licensing patent deal between Microsoft and Novell.
Software and business method patents: Lex Informatica Conference May 2008 Pretoria, South Africa
GNU licenses are developed by and accessed through the Free Software Foundation. The general public license is for software and the general documentation license is for general content.
The copyleft movement: creative commons licensing
The Free Software Foundation (for more information about this organization, see sidebar, "Not All Open-Source Software Is Created Equal") recently published an article in which the foundation's position was stated on this topic.
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As a consequence, he established the Free Software Foundation in 1985.
The free software alternative
(9.) FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (1991),
What's so great about nothing? The GNU general public license and the zero-price-fixing problem
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), started in 1985, intended the word 'free' to mean "free as in free speech" and not "free as in free beer." Since a great deal of free software already was (and still is) free of charge, such free software became associated with zero cost, which seemed anti-commercial.
Defining open source systems
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation ('FSF'), describes four values embodied in the phrase 'free software':
Legal issues for the use of free and open source software in government
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