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Free Software Foundation of India
FSF India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India.
Free Software Movement
The free software movement is a world wide effort that campaigns for the creation, use, and adoption of free software. 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 meal”. We also refer to it as ”swantantra software“ to clarify that the software respects your freedom and is not necessarily gratis.
Free software entitles users to four essential freedoms:
- The freedom to run the program as they wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does their computing as they wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so they can help others (freedom 2).
- The freedom to distribute copies of their modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this they can give the whole community a chance to benefit from their changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
News
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Apr 10, 2021 FSF India Board Statement
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Mar 05, 2021 Case Study: SCMS - Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune, India
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Sep 19, 2020 Free Software Camp 2020 Launches on Software Freedom Day
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July 11, 2020 Open letter to KITE: On the use of proprietary apps and services for online classes in schools
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May 29, 2020 Aarogya Sethu client app released as Free Software
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Sep 12, 2019 Santhosh Thottingal is awarded the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019
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Jul 28, 2019 IT syllabus of class XI in Maharashtra now includes FLOSS
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Jul 17, 2019 Free Software Seminar at VNRVJIET
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Mar 07, 2014 FSF India's call for a free digital society supported by free software
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Oct 25, 2013 FSF India's Response to the Proposed Framework by Govt of India
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Oct 14, 2013 Swatantra Malayalam Computing completes 12 years
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Sep 28, 2013 The GNU system has turned thirty years old on September 27, 2013
Articles
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Oct 13, 2024 Prav - A Free Software Challenger To WhatsApp
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Mar 17, 2021 Educational Institutes should use exclusively freedom-respecting software
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Feb 17, 2021 Better than Zoom and Google Meet: Try these Free Software powered video conferencing apps and services
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Jan 23, 2021 Better than WhatsApp: Try these Free Software Apps and Services
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Sep 19, 2011 Android and Users' Freedom - By Richard Stallman
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Feb 27, 2009 Liberating cyberspace - Interview with Richard M. Stallman, founder, Free Software Foundation, FRONTLINE
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Oct 19, 2007 The Spectre of Free Information - Interview with Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History - FRONTLINE