IRILL - Research and Innovation on Free Software It is today the 25th anniversary of the Free Software Foundation, and we are all quite happy, here at IRILL, that we start our activities on this very date, with the IRILL Days.
It has been a long way for Free Software, from the very first definition of Free Software licences, then the uptake of the Free Software phylosophy and the acceleration of the development made possible by the generalisation of the Internet, and finally the main inroads made by Free and Open Source software in all areas of IT, even in companies that considered Free Software pure evil just a few years ago.
At IRILL, we believe it is now time to make some extra steps: research on Free Software, especially on how to master code complexity, education to and with Free Software, and setting up ecosystems mixing academia, communities and industries.
This is our mission for the next years.