<p>Is there a strong presence of the Free Software Movement at MIT?
Free Software is one of the point for the match between you and MIT. Free Software movement was born at MIT.</p>
<p>What do you mean by ‘strong presence’? Can you rephrase your question in the form of a better-articulated question?</p>
<p>Also, what do you define as the ‘free software movement’? Do you consider it using open-source software, or is it more not giving Google all your data, or are you all the way towards the rms end of the spectrum?</p>
<p>I think you will see some of it here - but most people don’t really care. You will certainly find people who do care deeply about it and spend their free time writing open source code. You will also find a few profs who will use nothing else. But I think most people - don’t care that much. A lot of people especially those not in CS don’t really care at all. Those who do care don’t make a big deal about only using OSS. The campus computer labs run Athena, our distribution of Ubuntu. The OSS movement is most likely stronger here than any other school - but it is not all that strong - but you will find pockets of it</p>
<p>Ok, I meant Free Software Movement ----> [Welcome</a> — Free Software Foundation](<a href=“http://fsf.org%5DWelcome”>http://fsf.org)
OpenSource is very different from Free Software…</p>
<p>Again, you will need to be more specific.</p>
<p>I am majoring in CS, a member of the computer club, and I work on Debathena, which is our new version of Linux. I can probably answer your question, but you need to actually ask something.</p>
<p>Please define what you would consider a “strong presence”.</p>