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List of Free Software non-profits

February 24, 2009 3:02 pm Dave Neary General

Michael Dexter of Linux Fund spent some time last week putting together a list of non-profit corporations which exist to support free software, free software projects, or free culture worldwide. It’s an impressive list of 68 non-profits from around the world, with varied goals and focuses, but with the common theme of wanting to improve the world through the sharing of information. He published the list on the FLOSS Foundations site, which is appropriate, since that group brings together representatives of almost all of these organisations, sharing information useful to everyone.

Some of them have, in my opinion, a more tenuous link than others to projects – such as regional satellites of the FSF for example, or the organisers of SCALE – but the list does show the breadth & depth of the domains where free software has made an impact in the past couple of decades.