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The open source movement and the free software movement, by offering free software, are in the tradition of idealism and a wish to improve society that was common among early computing and Internet pioneers.The idea of exploiting software for commercial gain was anathema to the spirit of cooperation among the early pioneers of computing and The Internet. This same wish to improve society for the common good remains in the open source movement and the free software movement. The success of the Linux operating system is testimony to the fact that this spirit of altruism remains to this day. The term 'open source' refers to software in which the source code is freely available for others to view, amend, and adapt. You can find more information here on the Open Source Initiative. If you wish to explore some of the excellent open source software that is available to download, then SourceForge.net is a good place to start. Today, the free software movement has a slightly different philosophy to the open source movement. Whilst open source is more of a development methodology, the free software movement sees non-free software as a social problem and free software as the solution. You will find more information here on the Free Software Foundation. Sources of free software can be found all over The Internet. Many software firms also issue free versions of software. For instance, free FTP software, such as the popular WS_FTP LE (32-bit) can be downloaded here. Of course, some people will always prefer to pay for proprietary software. In which case it is always worth trying to purchase at a discount price.
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