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Comparison with use in software. The original gratis/libre distinction concerns software (i.e., code), with which users can potentially do two [citation needed] kinds of things: 1. access and use it; and 2. modify and re-use it. "Gratis" pertains to being able to access and use the code, without a price-barrier, while "libre" pertains to being ...
Shown are the GNOME desktop environment, the GNU Emacs text editor, the GIMP image editor, and the VLC media player. Free software, libre software, libreware [1] [2] or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and ...
LibreOffice Online is an online office suite that includes the applications Writer, Calc, and Impress, and provides an upstream for projects such as commercial Collabora Online. It is the most actively developed free and open-source office suite, with approximately 50 times the development activity of Apache OpenOffice , the other major ...
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. [1] With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for ...
ProjectLibre desktop is a free and open-source project management software system intended ultimately as a standalone replacement for Microsoft Project. ProjectLibre has been downloaded 6,000,000 times in 197 countries on all 7 continents and translated into 29 languages [2] The latest release of ProjectLibre was released with extensive update ...
"Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...
OpenOffice.org ( OOo ), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed [10] [11] [12] ), Apache OpenOffice [13] and Collabora Online . OpenOffice was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for ...
LibreOffice. Free ( Mozilla Public License) an Office suite; allows to export (and import, with accuracy limitations) PDF files. Microsoft Word 2013. Proprietary. Desktop software. The 2013 edition of Office allows PDF files to be converted into a format that can be edited. Nitro PDF Reader.