NewsForge: Free Software's Obligation

"To whomever is not using free
software this morning, to whomever is cooped up
in Windows or Office, Adobe or Symantec
or street or mine or harsh prison cell:
to them we come, and, without speaking or looking,
GNU arrives and opens the door of their prison,
and a migration starts up, vague and insistent,
a great whirlwind of packets set in motion
the rumble of the router and the modem,
the raucous torrents on the Internet,
freedom vibrates swiftly in its corona,
and Apache keeps beating, dying and continuing..."

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