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What is free software?

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer." Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

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Free software to use for ...

• copying
• compressing
• editing
• education
• email
• gameplaying
• hobbies
• interface
• internet-application
• library
• live-communications
• localization
• mathematics
• mixing
• organizing
• playing
• printing
• reading
• science
• security
• software-development
• storage
• system-administration
• text-creation
• timekeeping
• video
• web-authoring
• fighting-coronavirus
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Free software that interfaces with ...

• command-line
• console
• daemon
• e-mail
• library
• web
• x-window-system
• accessibility
• desktop-enhancement
• file-manager
• frontend
• gnome-app
• kde-app
• text
• window-manager
• wayland-window-system
• more...

Free software for business ...

• accounting
• addressbooks
• barcoding
• cad
• calculating
• calendar
• ecommerce
• faxing
• pim
• productivity
• project-management
• specialized
• spreadsheet
• stock-market
• telephony
• timekeeping
• timetracker
• more...

Free software that works with ...

• addresses
• archive
• audio
• barcodes
• cad
• database
• ebooks
• email
• fax
• graphics
• html
• images
• pim
• spreadsheet
• sql
• text
• video
• xml
• bitcoin
• more...

Free software that works with the format...

• mp3
• iso9660
• ogg-vorbis
• speex
• FLAC
• ogg-theora
• opus
• webm
• flv
• swf
• pdf
• rdf
• more...

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