Words, you are paying for a physical medium used to deliver the software, To make the disks, and risk (in case they don't sell them all). When buying a CD, you are paying for someone's time, capital outlay You might be asking: If the software is free, then why do I have to payĪ vendor for a CD, or pay an ISP for downloading? You say free, but the CDs/bandwidth cost money! There are even a growing number of packages whose sole job is to install non-free software Whenever possible Debian will support this. Thus, ourĪlthough Debian believes in free software, there are cases where people want or need to Of course, a lot of us just find it great fun.ĭebian is so committed to free software that we thought it would be useful if thatĬommitment was formalized in a written document. There's no quicker way to get a new feature than to implement it yourself! Many in academia create free software to help get the results ofīusinesses help maintain free software so they can have a say in how it develops. More and more people are looking for ways to avoid the inflated price ofĪ growing crowd contribute as a thank you for all the great free software they've Many write programs to learn more about computers. The answers are as varied as the people who contribute. Software, carefully package it, and then give it all away? You may be wondering: why would people spend hours of their own time to write
Next is all the software that you run on the computer.Īt the top of the tower is Debian - carefully organizing and fitting To manage thousands of packages on thousands of computers as easily as Machine), a package manager (APT), and other utilities that make it possible Software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your Running a business to playing games to writing more software. To help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs The Hurd is free software produced by theĪ large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on top of a microkernel (such as However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, Linux is a piece of software started byĪnd supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.įreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software. Housekeeping and lets you start other programs. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer and does all the basic This operating system that we have created is calledĪn operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that makeĪt the core of an operating system is the kernel. Individuals who have made common cause to create a free
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