FREE SOFTWARE

By: Noé Reyes

And why it's very important in the modern world

What does "Free Software" means?

• It is Software that respect the user rights, letting him do whatever he wants with the software• The Software is Free as in Freedom, not as in Free Beer• 4 essential freedoms:• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your

computing as you wish. • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. • The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.

Free Software vs Open Source Software vs Gratuitous SoftwareFree Software

• You can view its code, study and modify it, distribute and do whatever you want with the software• It don't has any

restrictions• It can have a prize

Open Source Software

• You can view the code• The laws of

redistribution depends of its licence• It can have

restrictions of modifications and uses• It can have a prize

Gratuitous Software

• You can't view the code• You cannot

redistribute it• It is limited to

personal use• It can have limited

features• It can add adware

and spam to your PC

Importance of Free Software

• As it doesn’t belongs to any enterprise, it can be used freely• The governments that uses Free Software reduces costs

considerably• It makes possible to the technology to develop faster, as there

aren’t patent troubles that can exceed for years• Consecuence of its freedom, it’s present in accountable

devices• All of the Supercomputers uses only Free Software

Advantages of the Free Software over the Non-Free

Software• The Free Software is more secure, as it has hundreds of

thousand developers working on it, unlike the Non-Free Software• The Free Software usually has Zero-price, so you don’t have to

piracy the software, risking to install a virus in your PC• You can look the code of the Software, so you can custom it

and ensure that the software doesn’t make any malicious activities

Examples of popular Free Software

The Free Software is developed by volunteer developers and enterprises that give away their efforts without monetary rewards, like Red Hat and Canonical, it is sustained only by donations of few of the users.You can learn more about Free Software in

FSF.orgThanks for your attention!