The '''free software movement''' advocates the creation and sharing of '''free software''' (compare [[open source]]).
Software genius and , [[GNU]] pioneer and [[Communist]] [[Richard Stallman]] defines free software as respecting the "essential freedoms" to:
* Run the program for any purpose
Examples of free software are the [[Linux]] operating system and the [[Apache (software)|Apache]] web server, which this very site runs on.
==Liberal Bias==
The Free Software Movement shows a [[liberal bias]] by effectively requiring [[Communism]]. It seeks to replace the free market of software with common ownership of all programs. The Free Software Movement also advocates for viral licenses, which force other entities to support the Free Software Movement by preventing compatibility with proprietary software. Such licenses are therefore effectively an example of [[Totalitarianism]], but with the government replaced by an inert license.
==Free software and Open Source software==