Free Software Foundation
FSF stands for the Free Software Foundation, is dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, understanding, and modification of computer programs. "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer!", says Stallman. Free software is a license to the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to distribute and modify computer software without restriction. The FSF was incorporated in Massachusetts, United States of America.
RMS: Man behind the Revolution!
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker (programmer), and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation.
What is GNU/LINUX ?
GNU is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. It was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. Development of GNU was initiated by Richard Stallman and was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). GNU is developed by the GNU Project, and programs released under the auspices of the project are called GNU packages or GNU programs. The system's basic components include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Binary Utilities, the bash shell, the GNU C library, and GNU Core Utilities.
What is a GLUG ?
GLUG is the acronym for GNU/Linux Users Group. Similar to a paticular club or community of students, GLUG is a community of student developers of a particular defined section or an established institution. Every member of the GLUG would use free software under GNU Public License(GPL) act and would have the liberty to distribute the latter and the developed copies to the world.
Apart from this, the students who are a part of the GLUG would categorise themselves into different groups based on their levels of interest namely core members and members. The core members would organise regular sessions on different free software technologies for the other members thereby enabling them to learn those technologies and spread them to othe
