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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free Software Definition.
Nikil Viswanathan is an American billionaire entrepreneur.He is the cofounder and CEO of Alchemy, the blockchain company backed by Stanford University, Alphabet, Inc. (Google) Chair John L. Hennessy, Charles Schwab, Reid Hoffman, and other billionaire founders and executives.
Along with a team of former GitHub co-founders and executives, Preston-Werner then cofounded Chatterbug, a software for language-learning. [24] In 2018, Chatterbug cofounder Scott Chacon announced an $8 million (~$9.56 million in 2023) series A funding round for the company, financed by himself and Preston-Werner. [25]
Marc Bernays Randolph (born April 29, 1958) is an American tech entrepreneur, advisor and speaker. [1] He is the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. [2]A serial entrepreneur who is said to have helped found the U.S. edition of Macworld magazine and the computer mail-order businesses MacWarehouse and MicroWarehouse, [3] Randolph now serves on the boards of Looker Data Sciences and Chubbies Shorts.
In 2011, the company started publishing its hosted service for the mxGraph web application under a separate brand, Diagramly with the domain "diagram.ly". [12]After removing the remaining use of Java applets from its web app, the service rebranded as draw.io in 2012 because the ".io suffix is a lot cooler than .ly", said co-founder David Benson in a 2012 interview.
Co-founder Pallav Nadhani is the CEO of FusionCharts and also runs a seed funding venture capital fund named Seeders Inc. [9] In March 2020, the company was acquired by Idera, Inc. , a U.S.-based software company.
The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software. [1] [2] Software which meets these requirements, The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, is termed free software.
Therefore, the Free Software Foundation Latin America released in 2008 a modified version of the Linux-kernel called Linux-libre, where all proprietary and non-free components were removed. Many businesses offer customized Linux-based products, or distributions, with commercial support.