free software

基本解釋

If you charge for licenses, free software will be 100 cheaper than your product.
如果您收取許可證費(fèi)用，免費(fèi)軟件將比您的產(chǎn)品便宜 100。
The free software community prides itself on being a meritocracy, where status is the result of accomplishment and contribution.
自由軟件社區(qū)因自己是一個(gè)精英而感到自豪，在那里地位是成就和貢獻(xiàn)的結(jié)果。
Of course we can not solve the world's problems by ourselves, but the philosophy of collaboration nurtured by Free Software is spreading, and will be key to solving these problems.
當(dāng)然我們不可能僅靠我們自己解決這些世界性問題，但是由自由軟件所滋生出的協(xié)作理念正在蔓延，這將成為解決這些問題的關(guān)鍵。

But thankfully now in 2010, we're at the point where there's a whole lot of free and open source software that you can integrate into your projects that other nice people have made available.
不過幸好在2010年,現(xiàn)在有很多可用的開源,代碼軟件，你可以將其融合,到你的工程中。
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It's a little more involved on a PC but it's all free, the software you can download, and Linux in similar operating systems generally come with a compiler or you run a simple command to get it.
在PC機(jī)上有點(diǎn)復(fù)雜，但是它是免費(fèi)的，你一般下載的軟件，類似Linux的操作系統(tǒng)等等通常都需要,一個(gè)編譯器，或者你可以運(yùn)行一些簡單的指令來獲取。
哈佛公開課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)課程節(jié)選

As Torvalds rolled out new versions of Linux, it stood for more than free software.
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It says that non-free software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand.
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自由軟件
Linux is gained free source code and is analysed, amended, added a new-function on the Free Software Foundation.
Linux操作系統(tǒng)在自由軟件基金會(huì)推動(dòng)下，使得任何人都可以免費(fèi)獲得其源代碼，對(duì)它進(jìn)行分析、修改、增添新功能。
免費(fèi)軟件
免費(fèi)軟體

自由軟件
He drew up General Public License (GPL), created a copyleft rules that allow free software users can share the fruit of software. They can copy, use and modify the software by free.
他制定了通用公共許可證(GPL),創(chuàng)造了copyleft規(guī)則,允許自由軟件的用戶可以隨意拷貝、使用和修改并共享軟件成果。