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<h2 id="open-source">Beyond Software</h2>

<h2>Beyond Software</h2>

<p>
<a href="free-doc.html">Software manuals must be free</a>, for the same
reasons that software must be free, and because the manuals are in effect
part of the software.</p>
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<p>
The same arguments also make sense for other kinds of works of
practical use -- that is to say, works that embody useful knowledge,
such as educational works and reference
works.  <a href="http://wikipedia.org"> Wikipedia </a> is the best known
example.
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<p>
Any kind of work <em>can</em> be free, and the definition of free software
has been extended to a definition of <a href="http://freedomdefined.org/">
free cultural works</a> applicable to any kind of works.
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<h2 id="open-source">Open Source?</h2>

<p>
Another group has started using the term <q>open source</q> to mean
something close (but not identical) to <q>free software.</q>  We
prefer the term <q>free software</q> because, once you have heard that
it refers to freedom rather than price, <a href="free-software-for-freedom.html">it it calls to mind freedom</a>. freedom.
The word <q>open</q> <a href="open-source-misses-the-point.html">
never does that. refers to freedom </a>.
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