Creative commons: Creative commons started in December 2002. It's sole purpose is to create copyright agreements that are fair and just. It allows for the individuals creative and intellectual property to be used however they wish. It is a "non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting reasonable copyright. Instead of "all rights reserved" creative commons prides itself on it's content being "some rights reserved." Individuals can determine the extent to which their property will be bound by commercial rights, derivatives and share a like functions.
Free software movement: "Free/ libre, open source software." Free software was founded by Richard Stallman in 1981 well before propriety software came about. It allowed its users to operate the software how they chose and also gave them access to the source code. A source code is instructions written in programming languages. It basically tells a computer how to do certain things. Open or free software programs include, gimpshop, open office, mozilla firefox, VLC and many many more.
What is interesting is that many of these programs run almost identical to the proprietary software of the same nature, in many cases even better, and it's FREE!
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