Editing Free software (section)

== References ==
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<ref name="Dixon">{{cite book | last1 = Dixon | first1 = Rod | title = Open Source Software Law | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9b_vVPf53xcC&q=%22free+software%22+freeware&pg=PA4 | access-date = 2009-03-16 | year = 2004 | publisher = Artech House | isbn = 978-1-58053-719-3 | page = 4}}</ref>

<ref name="Graham">{{cite book | last1 = Graham | first1 = Lawrence D. | title = Legal battles that shaped the computer industry | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c6IS3RnN6qAC&q=%22Legal+battles+that+shaped+the+computer+industry%22+%22from+the+beginning+of+the+computer+age%22&pg=PA175 | access-date = 2009-03-16 | year = 1999 | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | isbn = 978-1-56720-178-9 | page = 175}}</ref>

<ref name="initial-announcement">{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html | website= GNU Project|title = Initial Announcement|publisher = Free Software Foundation|first = Richard|last = Stallman|date= 27 September 1983}}</ref>

<ref name="Fisher">{{cite book | last = Fisher | first = Franklin M. |author2= McKie, James W.|author3=Mancke, Richard B. | title = IBM and the U.S. Data Processing Industry: An Economic History | publisher = Praeger | year = 1983 | isbn = 0-03-063059-2}}</ref>

<ref name="misses-the-point">{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html | title = Why "Open Source" misses the point of Free Software|first = Richard|last = Stallman|website = GNU Project|publisher = Free Software Foundation}}</ref>

<ref name="bull6">{{cite news| url = https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull1.txt | title = What is the Free Software Foundation? |work =GNU's Bulletin|volume= 1 |number= 1| page= 8|first = Richard|last = Stallman}}</ref>

<ref name="free-sw">{{cite web | last = Free Software Foundation | title = What is free software? | url = https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html | access-date = 14 December 2011}}</ref>

<ref name="Perens">{{cite news | first = Bruce | last = Perens | url = http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/transcripts/rms-fs-2006-03-09.en.html | title = Debian's "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community | work = debian-announce mailing list}}</ref>

<ref name="Debian">{{cite web | url = http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ |  website=Debian|title =License information | date = 2020-09-03}}</ref>

<ref name="cnet">{{cite news | url = http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6047727-7.html | title = Firefox more secure than MSIE after all | newspaper = CNET | publisher = News.com}}</ref>

<ref name="albion">{{cite web|url=http://www.albion.com/security/intro-7.html|title=The Benefits of Open Source|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="rms-fs-2006-03-09">{{cite news | url = http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/transcripts/rms-fs-2006-03-09.en.html | title = Transcript where Stallman explains about spyware| newspaper = Fsfe - Free Software Foundation Europe}}</ref>

<ref name="Wheeler">David A. Wheeler: [http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!] 2007</ref>

<ref name="Delio">Michelle Delio: [https://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2004/12/66022 Linux: Fewer Bugs Than Rivals] Wired 2004</ref>

<ref name="fuzz-revisited">{{cite report|title=Fuzz Revisited: A Re-examination of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities and Services|date=11 April 1995|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239668581|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621162832/http://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/paradyn/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.pdf|archive-date=21 June 2010|author1=Barton P. Miller |author2=David Koski |author3=Cjin Pheow Lee |author4=Vivekananda Maganty |author5=Ravi Murthy |author6=Ajitkumar Natarajan |author7=Jeff Steidl |publisher=University of Wisconsin: Computer Sciences Department|location=Madison, WI|quote=''...The reliability of the basic utilities from GNU and Linux were noticeably better than those of the commercial systems''}}</ref>

<ref name="fuzz-macos">{{cite conference | last1=Miller | first1=Barton P. | last2=Cooksey | first2=Gregory | last3=Moore | first3=Fredrick | title=Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Random testing - RT '06 | chapter=An empirical study of the robustness of MacOS applications using random testing | publisher=ACM Press | publication-place=New York, New York, USA | year=2006 | doi=10.1145/1145735.1145743|chapter-url=http://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/paradyn/technical_papers/Fuzz-MacOS.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621163055/http://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/paradyn/technical_papers/Fuzz-MacOS.pdf|archive-date=21 June 2010| pages=1, 2| isbn=159593457X |quote=We are back again, this time testing... Apple's Mac OS X. [...] While the results were reasonable, we were disappointed to find that the reliability was no better than that of the Linux/GNU tools tested in 1995. We were less sure what to expect when testing the GUI- based applications; the results turned out worse than we expected.}}</ref>

<ref name="FreeGNULinuxDistributions">{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions|title=Links to Other Free Software Sites - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="DW02">{{cite web|url=http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity |title=DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking |access-date=30 October 2012 |publisher=[[DistroWatch]] |date=30 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007074633/http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity |archive-date=7 October 2011}}</ref>

<ref name="linfo">{{cite web|url=http://www.linfo.org/bsdlicense.html|title=BSD license definition|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="bsdl-gpl">{{cite web|url=http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html|title=Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="GPLsection4">[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#section4 GNU General Public License, section 4.] gnu.org</ref>

<ref name="suntimes">{{cite news|url=http://suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html |title=Ballmer calling open source a 'cancer', saying it's 'not available to commercial companies'|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010615205548/http://suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html |archive-date=2001-06-15| newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=1 June 2001}}</ref>

<ref name="Web Server Survey">{{cite web | url = http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ | title = Web Server Usage Survey | author = Netcraft| date = 14 March 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name="Apache Strategy">{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/~mohrmana/apache.pdf |title=Apache Strategy in the New Economy |author=The Apache Software Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216004731/http://www.unc.edu/~mohrmana/apache.pdf |archive-date=2008-02-16}}</ref>

<ref name="ibm">{{cite web | url = http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/03/02.phtml | title = IBM launches biggest Linux lineup ever | date = 1999-03-02 | publisher = IBM | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19991110114228/http://www.ibm.com/news/1999/03/02.phtml | archive-date = 1999-11-10}}</ref>

<ref name="Hamid">{{cite web | title = IBM invests in Brazil Linux Tech Center | url = https://lwn.net/Articles/185602/ | date = 2006-05-24 | publisher = [[LWN.net]] | first = Farrah | last = Hamid}}</ref>

<ref name="l-erick">{{cite web | url = http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-erick.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091218093727/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-erick.html | archive-date = 2009-12-18 | title = Interview: The Eclipse code donation | date = 2001-11-01 | publisher = IBM}}</ref>

<ref name="gpl-java">{{cite web | url = http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html | title = Sun begins releasing Java under the GPL | access-date = 2007-09-23 | date = November 15, 2006 | publisher = [[Free Software Foundation]]}}</ref>

<ref name="MERIT-floss">{{cite web | title = Study on the: Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU | url = http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/files/2006-11-20-flossimpact_en.pdf | access-date = 2007-01-25 | author = Rishab Aiyer Ghosh | date = November 20, 2006 | publisher = [[European Union]] | page = 51}}</ref>

<ref name="Dornan">{{cite web | author = Andy Dornan | title = The Five Open Source Business Models | url = http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/the_five_open_s.html | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091010195844/http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/the_five_open_s.html | archive-date = October 10, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name="eprints">{{cite web|url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/39826/|title=Total cost of ownership of open source software: a report for the UK Cabinet Office supported by OpenForum Europe|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

<ref name="standishgroup">{{cite web|url=http://standishgroup.com/newsroom/open_source.php |title=Open Source |work=Standish Newsroom |publisher=Standishgroup.com |date=2008-04-16 |access-date=2010-08-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118001419/http://standishgroup.com/newsroom/open_source.php |archive-date=2012-01-18}}</ref>

<ref name="esr">{{cite web | title = Eric S. Raymond's initial call to start using the term open source software, instead of free software | url = http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html | author = Eric S. Raymond}}</ref>

<ref name="commondistrosfsf">{{cite web | title =  Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems
| url = https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html}}</ref>
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