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Welcome to the
Free Software Directory
A collaborative catalog of free software.
Free software
is a matter of liberty, not price.
Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
The Free Software Directory
(
FSD
) is a project of the
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. We catalog useful free software that runs under free GNU-like systems, not limited to the
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.
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