back to when Richard Stallman had no gray hairs or wrinkles. Back to the time when RMS and the fine folks at the GNU project were writing compilers, debuggers, fileutils, shellutils, binutils, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, fontutils, Emacs, the Bash shell, and all the high-quality Linux tools that we take for granted, and that are the envy of Unix admins everywhere.

"Their first question is indubitably: "Why would highly skilled people give away the fruit of their difficult labor?" Followed by, "If it's free, can it be any good?""

"...Firefox is created by a public process as a public asset. Participants are correct to feel that Firefox belongs to them. They are correct legally, since the Mozilla Foundation's assets are legally dedicated to the public benefit. They are correct practically because Firefox could not exist without the community; the two are completely intertwined..."

In response to some of the comments I received on a previous article, and to show that while I don’t use Ubuntu, I do support it, here are six reasons everyone should at least try Ubuntu.

"I think you've made an astute prediction. Above all, the Free Software model is an extraordinarily powerful and enabling one, and for that reason it really doesn't matter, as long as public licencing is tight, who buys whom. Richard Stallman is a true visionary in this regard. Use it, but don't hog it..."

When listening to others talk about GNU/Linux it always strikes me as odd the argument that is used. That the Linux kernel was made usable by the marriage of the GNU tool set to it so therefor it should be called GNU/Linux as it is a blending of the two and Linux is only the kernel. On the face of it this argument makes sense ... if one doesn't think about it too deeply.

"A working group has been set up in January 7th, 2002 by APRIL and FSF France. The original idea is from Pierre Jarillon (ABUL president). The objective is to have Free Software classified as an intangible world cultural heritage by the UNESCO