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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/fsfi.css"> <title>Free Software Foundation India</title> </head> <body>  <nav class="navbar" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="container"> <div class="navbar-brand"> <a class="navbar-item" href="/"> <img class="logo" src="/assets/img/logo.png" alt="[ FSFI Logo ]"> </a> <a role="button" class="navbar-burger burger" aria-label="menu" aria-expanded="false" data-target="fsfi-nav-items"> <span aria-hidden="true"></span> <span aria-hidden="true"></span> <span aria-hidden="true"></span> </a> </div> <div id="fsfi-nav-items" class="navbar-menu is-lowercase"> <div class="navbar-end"> <div class="navbar-item"> <a href="/about">About</a> </div> <div class="navbar-item"> <a href="/volunteer">Volunteer</a> </div> <div class="navbar-item"> <a href="/contact">Contact</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav>   <div class="main">  <div class="lang-block"> <div class="container"> <div class="lang"> <p>en | <a href="/hi">hi</a></p> </div> </div> </div>   <div class="fsfi-banner"> <div class="container"> <section class="hero is-bold"> <div class="hero-body"> <div class="container"> <div class="content is-large"> <header> <h1>Free Software Foundation of India</h1> </header> <p class="banner-text fsfi-lead"> FSF India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India. </p> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div>   <div class="fs"> <section class="section"> <div class="container"> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="content"> <header> <h1 class="title"><span>Free Software Movement</span></h1> </header> <div class="columns"> <div class="column"> <p>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.</p> <p>Free software entitles users to <a href="//gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">four essential freedoms</a>:</p> <ul> <li>The freedom to run the program as they wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).</li> <li>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.</li> <li>The freedom to redistribute copies so they can help others (freedom 2).</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="column"> <video controls="controls" poster="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/rms-photos/20140407-geneva-01.png" style="width:512px" src="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/TEDxGE2014_Stallman05_LQ.webm"> <track label="English" srclang="en" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/rms-tedx-subtitles/rms-ted-talk.en.vtt"> <track label="French" srclang="fr" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/rms-tedx-subtitles/rms-ted-talk.fr.vtt"> <track label="Spanish" srclang="es" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/TEDx_es.vtt"> <track label="Persian" srclang="fa" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/rms-ted-talk.fa.srt"> </video> <p>Download this video in a free format (<a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/TEDxGE2014_Stallman05_HQ.ogv">HD</a>) (<a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/TEDxGE2014_Stallman05_LQ.webm">SD</a>).</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div>   <div class="news"> <section class="section"> <div class="container"> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="content"> <header> <h1 class="title"><span>News</span></h1> <a class="feed" href="/feed.atom"> <span class="feed-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">Atom Feed</span> </a> </header> <ul class="news-items"> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Apr 10, 2021</span> <a href="/news/board-statement-2021/">FSF India Board Statement</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Mar 05, 2021</span> <a href="/case-study/unipune/">Case Study: SCMS - Savitribai Phule Pune University Pune, India</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Sep 19, 2020</span> <a href="/news/free-software-camp-2020-announcement/">Free Software Camp 2020 Launches on Software Freedom Day</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">July 11, 2020</span> <a href="/news/proprietary-apps-in-schools/">Open letter to KITE: On the use of proprietary apps and services for online classes in schools</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">May 29, 2020</span> <a href="/news/arogya-sethu">Aarogya Sethu client app released as Free Software</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Sep 12, 2019</span> <a href="/news/thottingal">Santhosh Thottingal is awarded the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Jul 28, 2019</span> <a href="/news/mh-schools-floss/">IT syllabus of class XI in Maharashtra now includes FLOSS</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Jul 17, 2019</span> <a href="/news/vnrvjiet-fw/">Free Software Seminar at VNRVJIET</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Mar 07, 2014</span> <a href="/news/free-digital-society/">FSF India's call for a free digital society supported by free software</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Oct 25, 2013</span> <a href="/news/response-oss-framwork/">FSF India's Response to the Proposed Framework by Govt of India</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Oct 14, 2013</span> <a href="/news/smc-twelve-years/">Swatantra Malayalam Computing completes 12 years</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Sep 28, 2013</span> <a href="/news/gnu-thirty/">The GNU system has turned thirty years old on September 27, 2013</a> </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div>   <div class="articles"> <section class="section"> <div class="container"> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="content"> <header> <h1 class="title"><span>Articles</span></h1> <a class="feed" href="/feed.atom"> <span class="feed-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">Atom Feed</span> </a> </header> <ul class="news-items"> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Oct 13, 2024</span> <a href="/article/prav">Prav - A Free Software Challenger To WhatsApp</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Mar 17, 2021</span> <a href="/article/education">Educational Institutes should use exclusively freedom-respecting software</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Feb 17, 2021</span> <a href="/article/better-than-zoom">Better than Zoom and Google Meet: Try these Free Software powered video conferencing apps and services</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Jan 23, 2021</span> <a href="/article/better-than-whatsapp">Better than WhatsApp: Try these Free Software Apps and Services</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Sep 19, 2011</span> <a href="/article/android/">Android and Users' Freedom - By Richard Stallman</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Feb 27, 2009</span> <a href="/article/liberating-cyberspace-rms-interview/">Liberating cyberspace - Interview with Richard M. Stallman, founder, Free Software Foundation, FRONTLINE</a> </p> </li> <li> <p><span class="tag is-white">Oct 19, 2007</span> <a href="/article/frontline-moglen-interview/">The Spectre of Free Information - Interview with Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History - FRONTLINE</a> </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div>  </div>   <footer class="footer"> <div class="content is-small has-text-centered"> <div class="follow-block"> <p>Follow FSF India</p> <ul> <li><a class="follow-link" rel="me" href="https://social.masto.host/@fsfi"> <span class="mastadon-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">Mastadon</span></a> </li> <li><a class="follow-link" href="/feed.atom"> <span class="feed-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">News Feed</span></a> </li> <li><a class="follow-link" href="//lists.fsci.in/postorius/lists/fsf-discuss.mm.gnu.org.in"> <span class="email-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">Mailing List</span></a> </li> <li><a class="follow-link" href="//matrix.to/#/%23fsf-friends%3Apoddery.com"> <span class="matrix-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">FSF-Friends - Matrix Group</span></a> </li> <li><a class="follow-link" href="//conversations.im/j/fsf-friends@conference.diasp.in"> <span class="xmpp-icon"></span> <span class="is-sr-only">fsf-friends@conference.diasp.in - XMPP</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="content is-small"> <p>Copyright © 2002-2021 Free Software Foundation of India.</p> <p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.</p> </div> <div class="footer-sister-orgs content is-small has-text-centered"> <p class="">FSF India has sister organizations in <a href="//fsf.org">North America</a>, <a href="//fsfe.org">Europe</a>, and <a href="//fsfla.org">Latin America</a>.</p> </div> </footer>   <script src="/assets/js/fsfi.js"></script>  </body> </html>

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