_GNU: parallel univer se_
The owner. Closed source. Can’t be copied. Copyright. The ever-necessary company permission. Prohibition, SGAE, BSA...
All of the above is exactly what the parallel universe that is the GNU movement is totally against. We have no doubt that what “standard” society has to offer is by no means what we want and need in our world. That’s why we’ve opened up a shop of our own. We go along with the famous line from the film Matrix: “Free your mind.” As well as freeing our minds, we’ve also freed our software. That’s what the GNU philosophy is all about: for a computer system to be free, open source. The GNU movement was founded in 1984, but started to become known all over the world thanks to Linus Torvaldes’s Linux driver system. One of the most important GNU inventions is the GPL (General Public Licence) which does the contrary to what normal licences do: it guarantees freed rather than reduce it:
GPL General Public Licences: 0 freedom: the freedom to use the programme 1 freedom: the freedom to copy the programme 2 freedom: the freedom to modify the programme 3 freedom: the freedom to distribute the programme (the programme remains under the GPL license).
note: this article is licensed under the GFDL license type. See this following page for further details:
All of the above is exactly what the parallel universe that is the GNU movement is totally against. We have no doubt that what “standard” society has to offer is by no means what we want and need in our world. That’s why we’ve opened up a shop of our own. We go along with the famous line from the film Matrix: “Free your mind.” As well as freeing our minds, we’ve also freed our software. That’s what the GNU philosophy is all about: for a computer system to be free, open source. The GNU movement was founded in 1984, but started to become known all over the world thanks to Linus Torvaldes’s Linux driver system. One of the most important GNU inventions is the GPL (General Public Licence) which does the contrary to what normal licences do: it guarantees freed rather than reduce it:
GPL General Public Licences: 0 freedom: the freedom to use the programme 1 freedom: the freedom to copy the programme 2 freedom: the freedom to modify the programme 3 freedom: the freedom to distribute the programme (the programme remains under the GPL license).
note: this article is licensed under the GFDL license type. See this following page for further details:
- http://www.euskalgnu.org/azpihtmleu/eskuliburuak/baimenak/gpl-baimena.html
- www.gnu.org
- www.debian.org
- www.euskalgnu.org
