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'''Free Software Foundation''' ('''FSF''') is an organisation focused on giving certain freedoms to computer users.  As part of this, they have been fighting against software patents since the late 1980s.
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'''Free Software Foundation''' ('''FSF''') is an organisation focused on giving certain freedoms to computer users.  As part of this, they have been fighting against [[software patents]] since the late 1980s.
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As well as their own campaigning, FSF financed the [[End Software Patents]] campaign, and the [[Patent Absurdity]] film.
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FSF has published many essays about software patents on gnu.org.  A list can be found at [[Richard Stallman#Articles]]
  
 
==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}==
 
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* [[Richard Stallman]] - the founder and president of FSF
 
* [[Richard Stallman]] - the founder and president of FSF
 
* [[Free software]]
 
* [[Free software]]
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* [[End Software Patents]]
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* [[Patent Absurdity]]
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* [[Free Software Foundation Europe]] - independent sister organisation
  
 
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Latest revision as of 07:04, 23 December 2011

Free Software Foundation (FSF) is an organisation focused on giving certain freedoms to computer users. As part of this, they have been fighting against software patents since the late 1980s.

As well as their own campaigning, FSF financed the End Software Patents campaign, and the Patent Absurdity film.

FSF has published many essays about software patents on gnu.org. A list can be found at Richard Stallman#Articles

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