Framasoft
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| Motto | La route est longue, mais la voie est libre ("It's a long way, but a free way")[1] |
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| Formation | 2001 for the network, 2003 for the organisation [2][3] |
| Type | non-profit organization |
| Legal status | Association |
| Purpose | Educational |
| Headquarters | Lyon, France |
Region served | Worldwide |
Membership | Anyone |
Official language | French |
| Website |
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Framasoft is a popular and educational network using open-sourced software, created in 2001 by Alexis Kauffmann. Since December 2003, it is supported by an eponymous association based in Lyon, France.[4] It is divided in three main branches of activities, on a collaborative model: promotion, diffusion and development of open-source software, enrichment of the open-source culture and services online.
Framasoft is one of the main francophone portals to open-source culture, both in terms of services and users. Its community regularly brings ressources and assistance to people who discover open-source software environment and contributes to its diffusion in schools as well as in professional environments and online. They also accompany people wishing to replace their copyrighted material with open-source at any point in the migration, notably from Microsoft Windows to GNU/Linux.[5]
The entirety of Framasoft's production is created under open license to guarantee that nothing or no one can privatise or appropriate it for business purposes.
See also
- Open-source software
- Open source
- List of commercial open-source applications and services
- HandyLinux
- Mandriva Linux
- Linuxfr