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[News] Linux and Free Beer in the Boston Globe

FREE BEER

Well, as in 'free software.' Bringing the open source movement to brewing.

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| See the success of the Linux operating system and the Firefox browser,
| to name two examples.
| 
| What does this all have to do with Free Beer? Well, the founder
| of the free software movement is a man named Richard Stallman,
| and he's still very much a presence. Stallman directs the Free
| Software Foundation, which, through its GNU Project (www.gnu.org),
| administers the licenses that make Linux and other free software
| available. Faced with frequent puzzlement over how "free software"
| could be free if it cost money (and is able to support
| billion-dollar investments from the likes of IBM, in the case 
| of Linux), Stallman came up with a simple explanation: "think
| of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'"
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/18/free_beer/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+Section

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