IT Confidential: Why Software, And Beer, Should Be Free

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 24, 2007 12:26 PM EDT
InformationWeek; By John Soat
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I've come to the conclusion that software should be free. And I mean really free--as in free beer. Or free advice. I know there's a free software movement, one that advocates the unencumbered use of software code, but the folks behind it pull their punches. On its Web site, the Free Software Foundation defines free software this way: "'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.'" See what I mean?

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This is thinkin'... helios 5 833 Mar 25, 2007 12:03 PM

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