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VGLUG                    In the early days of computing, it was a standard practice for programmers to share software.   However, since the 1960s, software has been trapped in a battle of owernship and users have benn prevented  from sharing or modifying programs. By the 1980s, proprietary software became the norm and the software  freedom was lost. “The owners of software had erected walls to divide us from each other.”                        These are the words of Richard M Stallman (Popularly know as RMS), a celebrated programmer  and an accomplished hacker. (Contrary to popular belief, a hacker is not an anti­social being. S/he is someone  who is passionate and even obsessive about programming, as opposed to a cracker. Someone who breaks  security on   a system, often with malicious intent.) RMS quit his job at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, to  zelously campaign for sofeguarding software freedom. In 1984, he launched the free software movement and  started the GNU project to develop a free operating system called GNU ( a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not  Unix”). The next year, he founded Free Software Foundation(FSF) to promote free software. FSF promotes  the use of GNU/Linux (often mistakenly called ‘Linux’) based on the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. FSF  (with its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA), is a not­for­profit organization which believes that free  software is a matter of freedom and not price.

Gooooogle it!  Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser)                                                       The GIMP (Graphics Editor)    OpenOffice (Office Suite)               

GNOME and KDE (Desktop Environments)

Links:                         www.gnu.org                                                 www.fsf.org.in                              www.sourceforge.net                   yahoo groups:      www.groups.yahoo.com/group/vglug    

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