A common example is, "to think of free speech, not free beer." Although drawing on traditions and philosophies among members of the 1970s [(programmer subculture)|hacker culture] and academia, Richard Stallman formally founded the movement in 1983 by launching the GNU Project.
A common example is, "to think of free speech, not free beer." Although drawing on traditions and philosophies among members of the 1970s [(programmer subculture)|hacker culture] and academia, Richard Stallman formally founded the movement in 1983 by launching the GNU Project.
Stallman later established the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement. == Philosophy == The philosophy of the movement is that the use of computers should not lead to people being prevented from cooperating with each other.
Of particular interest to economists is the willingness of programmers in the free software movement to work, often producing higher-quality than proprietary programmers, without financial compensation. In his 1998 article "The High-Tech Gift Economy", Richard Barbrook suggested that the then-nascent free software movement represented a return to the gift economy building on [and the
It also requires that information be exchanged in open formats. === Venezuela === The Government of Venezuela implemented a free software law in January 2006.
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