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What is free software?

• Wikipedia article for free software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
• The Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org

Examples of free software

• Computer operating system: Ubuntu
• Office suite: Open Office
• Image editing: GIMP
• Audio editing: Audacity
• Video editing: Open Movie Editor
• 3D Animation: Blender
• Graphics: Inkscape
• Layout: Scribus
• Blogging: Wordpress
• Reference materials: Wikimedia Foundation

Examples of things made with free software

• Video: Elephants Dream. Made with Blender
• Images: GIMP splash pages. Images designed for GIMP
• Content: The Internet Archive. Old movies, new music, extinct games, scanned texts, The Way Back Machine, so much more!

Other reasons to use free software?

• Netbooks and cheap computing
• Format standards
• The unsustainability of software designed to become redundent
• Socially networked
• Free and can give freedom