of the free software movement Free Software Foundation SCO-Linux controversies Open Source Initiative History of GNU History of Haiku History of Linux History of the Linux kernel Mozilla History of Mozilla Application Suite History of Firefox History of Mozilla Thunderbird Timeline of free and open-source software Events List of free-software events Organizations .NET Foundation Android Open Source Project Apache Software Foundation Blender Foundation The Document Foundation Eclipse Foundation F Sharp Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Europe Free Software Foundation of India Free Software Foundation Latin America FreeBSD Foundation freedesktop.org Free Software Movement of India GNOME Foundation GNU Project Google Code KDE e.V. Linux Foundation Mozilla Foundation Open Knowledge Foundation Open Source Geospatial Foundation Open Source Initiative Outercurve Foundation Software Freedom Conservancy SourceForge Symbian Foundation X.Org Foundation Xiph.Org Foundation XMPP Standards Foundation Persons influential in the free software movement Well known scholars Lawrence Lessig John Gilmore Eben Moglen Eric S. Raymond Other leading personalities Rick Adams Eric Allman Brian Behlendorf Keith Bostic Alan Cox Miguel de Icaza Theo de Raadt Jim Gettys Jon Hall Jordan Hubbard Lynne Jolitz William Jolitz Rasmus Lerdorf Marshall Kirk McKusick Bram Moolenaar Ian Murdock Tim O'Reilly Keith Packard Brian Paul Bruce Perens Bob Scheifler Mark Shuttleworth Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds Andrew Tridgell Guido van Rossum Larry Wall See also Category Commons Portal External links The Free Software Definition Transcripts about Free Software by FSFE Free Software Magazine, which bills itself as "a free magazine for the free software world." Free cultural works definition FLOSSWorld - Free/Libre/Open-Source Software: Worldwide impact study, to find out more about the recently announced European Union funded study. Software Freedom: An Introduction, by Robert J. Chassell Free software Free software