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During the Windows 10 release, the FSF issued a statement urging users to reject it due to its proprietary nature. The Foundation also cited other sources of concern, such as forcing lower-paying customers to test less-secure updates before higher-paying users, Microsoft's implication in the 2013 global surveillance scandal and the new privacy policy enacted by Windows.
This is a list of free and open-source software packages (), computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]
Free Download Manager is proprietary software, but was free and open-source software between versions 2.5 [6] and 3.9.7. Starting with version 3.0.852 (15 April 2010), the source code was made available in the project's Subversion repository instead of being included with the binary package. This continued until version 3.9.7. [7]
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman [6] on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, [7] such as with its own GNU General Public License. [8]
Category for free and open-source software that runs exclusively on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Free and open-source software portal See also: Category:macOS-only free software and Category:Linux-only free software
Ninite works on Windows 7 and later. It presents the user with a list of programs and generates a custom installer executable based on the user's selection. [6] The installer is able to install the correct application based on the computer's architecture and operating system. [7]
This category includes software that runs under any version of Microsoft Windows without emulation or virtualization (though it would include the emulators that make this possible). The software may also run on other platforms.
Free Download Manager: 2003 2007 GPL-3.0-only: Free since version 2.5 [48] FoundationDB: 2013 2018 Apache-2.0: Apple Inc. acquired the founding company in March 2015 and discontinued downloads of the software. [49] In April 2018, Apple open-sourced the database and resumed downloads. [50] Game-Maker: 1991 2014 MIT