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The free software community is an informal term referring to the users and developers of free software as well as supporters of the free software movement. The free software community is sometimes also called the "open-source community". The Linux community is a subset of the free software community.

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware manufacturers from preventing user modifications to their hardware.

In practice, for software to be distributed as free software, the human-readable form of the program (the source code) must be made available to the recipient along with a notice granting the above permissions. Such a notice either is a "free software licence", or a notice that the source code is released into the public domain.

First-ever UK conference on open source software in local government announced - As new US Govt looks at open source, UK called upon to wake up to opportunity

26 Jan 2009 - Local Government Open Source Conference 2009

As new research from Socitm* shows UK local government IT spending has hit record levels, a forthcoming conference will highlight the potential cost savings councils could make by switching to open source software.

The UK's first national conference on open source software in local government is taking place on 1st April 2009 in Manchester.

Cedega (formerly known as WineX) is TransGaming Technologies' proprietary fork of Wine (from when the license of Wine wasn't the LGPL but the X11 license), which is designed specifically for running games written for Microsoft Windows under Linux. As such, its primary focus is implementing the DirectX API.

The community has managed to keep Wine in touch with developments in Cedega; many of the games and 3D applications perform almost as well as when natively running under Microsoft Windows.

WineX was renamed to Cedega on the release of version 4.0 on June 22, 2004.