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[News] Remembering the value of "Free"

  • Subject: [News] Remembering the value of "Free"
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:38:31 +0100
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The Role and Value of Truly Free Linux Distributions

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|    As GNU/Linux becomes more popular, the motives behind its
| inceptions are often forgotten. Linux is a free operating system,
| but its broadening userbase perceives this freedom as pertaining to
| cost, not rights and liberty.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3706441

An excellent article promoting the importance of strictly Free distros
such as gNewSense and Gobuntu.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
 05:36:21 up 74 days,  4:31,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.14, 0.32

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