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Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
- Richard Matthew Stallman
Audacity is a free software Audio Editor and Recorder for all popular operating systems.
www.audacityteam.org
Parabola is a fully free lightweight operating system.
https://www.parabola.nu/
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. Nobody needs to justify why they 'need' a right. The burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. You can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority.
- Edward Joseph Snowden
7zip is a free program for packing and unpacking compressed files. It supports major formats as well as its own high compression zatio 7z format.
www.7-zip.org/
qBittorent is a free software P2P bittorrent client
http://www.qbittorrent.org/
HandBrake is a free software video transcoder, to make ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device easier.
https://handbrake.fr/
Avidemux is a free, simple video editor.
FreeCAD is a free parametric 3D CAD modeler.
"Stallman was right!"
- Eben Moglen
Stellarium is a free software planetarium for your computer. View over 600,000 stars with contellations planets and their moons realistically.
DVD Flick is a free and open source DVD authoring application capable of importing audio tracks, video files and subnoscripts, composing a DVD-Video movie with menus and burning it to a disc.
Thunderbird is a free software email client that can manage multiple email, newsgroup, and news feed accounts. 
HomeBank is a free personal accounting software to manage your finances in an easy to use, and analyse interface.
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
- Linus Torvalds
uTox is a lightweight Tox chat client for multiple platforms. Tox is a free software P2P instant messaging protocol that offers end to end encryption so that noone listens in.
Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

- John Carmack