Below you will find example sentences with "free software". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Free Software in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: free
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "free software" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 29.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as adoption of free software has caused, and the free software foundation fsf, foundation, users and proprietary stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with free speech, free agent, free trade, free cash, free trial and free food, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with free software
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The Free Software Foundation encourages selling free software. (8 words)
The free software movement also rejects proprietary software, refusing to install software that does not give them the freedoms of free software. (22 words)
Left: free software, right: proprietary software, encircled: Gratis software The first formal definition of free software was published by FSF in February 1986. (23 words)
Becoming Free Software-friendly With the release of version 2.0 of the toolkit, the license was changed to the Q Public License (QPL), a free software license, but one regarded by the Free Software Foundation as incompatible with the GPL. (41 words)
By contrast, the "free" in "free software" refers to freedoms granted users under the software license (for example, to run the program for any purpose, modify and redistribute the program to others), and such software may be sold at a price. (41 words)
At the same time, some business models that work with proprietary software are not compatible with free software, such as those that depend on the user to pay for a license in order to lawfully use the software product. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that ensures that the end users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software.
Left: free software, right: proprietary software, encircled: Gratis software The first formal definition of free software was published by FSF in February 1986.
The free software movement also rejects proprietary software, refusing to install software that does not give them the freedoms of free software.
Becoming Free Software-friendly With the release of version 2.0 of the toolkit, the license was changed to the Q Public License (QPL), a free software license, but one regarded by the Free Software Foundation as incompatible with the GPL.
The FSF's Free Software Definition states that users of free software are free because they do not need to ask for permission to use the software.
Users can easily download and install this free software via a simple package manager that comes with most Linux distributions The Free Software Directory maintains a large database of free software packages.
By contrast, the "free" in "free software" refers to freedoms granted users under the software license (for example, to run the program for any purpose, modify and redistribute the program to others), and such software may be sold at a price.
Under the free software business model, free software vendors may charge a fee for distribution and offer pay support and software customization services.
While stressing the philosophical differences, the Free Software Foundation comments: The term “open source” software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as free software.
At the same time, some business models that work with proprietary software are not compatible with free software, such as those that depend on the user to pay for a license in order to lawfully use the software product.
That definition, written by Richard Stallman, is still maintained today and states that software is free software if people who receive a copy of the software have the following four freedoms.
With free software, businesses can fit software to their specific needs by changing the software themselves or by hiring programmers to modify it for them.
Although the open source movement is working towards the same social benefits as the free software movement, Kelty claims that by disregarding this fundamental belief of the free software advocates, one is destroying the overall argument.
However, the differences in extension of the category are small: nearly all free software is open source, and nearly all open source software is free.
In addition to various non– free software variants of vi distributed with proprietary implementations of Unix, vi was opensourced with OpenSolaris and several free and open source software vi clones exist.
It is argued that whatever economical or technical merits free software may have are consequences stemming from the rights that free software developers and users enjoy.
Richard Stallman used the already existing term free software when he launched the GNU Project —a collaborative effort to create a freedom-respecting operating system —and the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
The Free Software Foundation encourages selling free software.
A report by Standish Group estimates that adoption of free software has caused a drop in revenue to the proprietary software industry by about $60 billion per year.
Free software from a BBS was the motive force for consumers to purchase a computer equipped with a modem, so as to acquire software at no cost.