* Free Software Foundation

It was criticized by the Free Software Foundation

* Bidirectional Scripts in Desktop Software Working group for supporting BiDi in Free Software.

Non-profit software organizations include the Free Software Foundation, GNU Project and Mozilla Foundation.

* Portable. NET, part of the dotGNU project, is a Free Software implementation of ECMA-335 by Free Software Foundation.

The " very seductive " moral and ethical rhetoric of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation fails, he said, " not because his principles are wrong, but because that kind of language ... simply does not persuade anybody ".

The Free Software Foundation advises people to " avoid using terms like ' give away ' or ' for free ,' because those terms imply that the issue is about price, not freedom.

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to provide the organizational structure to advance his free software ideas.

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Movement

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

The FSF recommends using the term " free software " rather than " open source software " because, as they state in a paper on Free Software philosophy, the latter term and the associated marketing campaign focuses on the technical issues of software development, avoiding the issue of user freedoms.

" Stallman states that while the term " Free Software " can lead to two different interpretations, one of them is consistent with FSF definition of Free Software so there is at least some chance that it could be understood properly, unlike the term " Open Source ".

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement.

Members of the free software movement believe that all users of software should have the freedoms listed in The Free Software Definition.

The Free Software Foundation also believes all software needs free documentation, in particular because conscientious programmers should be able to update manuals to reflect modification that they made to the software ), but deems the freedom to modify less important for other types of written works.

Congressmen Dr Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on " Free Software in Public Administration ".

Dr Villanueva's response received worldwide attention and is still seen as a classical piece of argumentation favouring use of Free Software in Governments.

* Free Software Foundation

Category: Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Definition, written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation ( FSF ), defines free software as a matter of liberty, not price.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

While stressing the philosophical differences, the Free Software Foundation comments:

* The Free Software Definition with notes, by Free Software Foundation Europe

Category: Free Software Foundation

According to the Free Software Foundation, " freeware " is a loosely defined category and it has no clear accepted definition, although FSF says it must be distinguished from free software ( libre ).

The Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) has formally defined the term " Free software " in 1986 and requested that people avoid referring to " Free Software " as " freeware ".

Noise Free America, a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit group, cites boom cars as one of the most problematic sources of noise pollution.

He co-founded the non-profit Free River Press, and acts as its executive director.

Despite the similarity in name and the fact that both groups were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was never any connection between OSF and the Free Software Foundation, neither is it associated with the technology non-profit Open Software Foundation based in Washington, DC or Open Systems, Inc.

The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards.

* Free Spirit Alliance, an American non-profit organization serving the Pagan and Pantheist communities

Another group is the Set America Free Coalition formed by prominent individuals and non-profit organizations concerned about the security and economic implications of America ’ s growing dependence on foreign oil.

It describes itself as: " The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigorous European Software Culture based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source software such as Linux.

However there were some Laboratories of Free Studies ( Ergastiria Eleutheron Spoudon ), often franchises of foreign universities, sometimes non-profit organizations, which advertised themselves as private universities or as centers from public universities abroad.

Numerous private institutions, which are often franchises of European and American universities, such as State University of New York, but also non-profit accredited institutions or wholly owned and operated branch campuses of foreign universities, such as the University of Indianapolis-Athens Campus, are operating legally as EES schools ( translatable as " Laboratories of Free Study ").

* Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a non-profit organisation dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure or FFII is a non-profit organisation based in Munich, Germany, dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology, by the removal of barriers to competition.

Radio Free Asia is a US-government funded, non-profit organization, incorporated in March 1996, and began broadcasting in September 1996.

Radio Free Asia is formally a private, non-profit corporation.

In addition to Dial Global, a subsidiary of Triton Media Group, the show is now also offered via Pacifica Audioport to non-profit stations in a non-profit compliant format and is simulcast on Dish Network Channel 9415 via Free Speech TV Network.

* Students for a Free Tibet, a non-profit organization advocating Tibetan independence

In 2002, Free founded the Free4Life Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to empowering young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods through programs that encourage literacy, financial education and creative arts.

The Ethiopian Free Press Journalists ' Association ( EFJA ) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that seeks to organize Ethiopian journalists and protect press freedoms in Ethiopia.

Students In Free Enterprise ( SIFE ) is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders.

The Free Spirit Alliance ( FSA ) is a non-profit spiritual networking organization serving the Pagan and Pantheist communities.

* Free Standards Group, non-profit consortium

While both free and community clinics provide many similar services, free clinics today are defined by the US National Association of Free Clinics as “ private, non-profit, community based organizations that provide medical, dental, pharmaceutical and / or mental health services at little or no cost to low-income, uninsured and under insured people.

Free Tibet or Free Tibet Campaign is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1987 and based in London, England.