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Q48413

organization supporting the free software movement

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Q48413 is an organization dedicated to supporting the free software movement, which promotes software that users can freely use, modify, and share. It matters because it helps advance the principles of software freedom and accessibility for everyone.

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Revenue: 1149602
Official website: www.fsf.org
Image: Free Software Foundation office (2346065159).jpg
Motto: Free Software, Free Society

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inception: 1985-10-04
Commons category: Free Software Foundation
official blog URL: www.fsf.org/blogs
Commons gallery: Free Software Foundation
short name: FSF
IRC channel URL: irc://irc.libera.chat/fsf
email address: mailto:[email protected]
phone number: +1-617-542-5942
fax number: +1-617-542-2652
review score: 97.15/100
social media followers: 25758
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011281
member count: 5000
donations: 1058798
official shop URL: shop.fsf.org
total assets: 2765455
official donation page URL: my.fsf.org/donate
privacy policy URL: www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy
street address: 31 MILK ST UNIT 960789, BOSTON MA 02196-7040

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organization supports the free software movement, with its preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License. The FSF was incorporated in Boston where it is also based.

From its founding until the mid-1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project and its employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the free software community. Consistent with its goals, the FSF aims to use only free software on its own computers.