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Computerworld Australia: Free Software Comes With Moral Price

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 23, 2004

“Preaching the virtues of free software for two decades has not
dimmed the enthusiasm of Richard Stallman, as audiences across
Australia discovered last week.

“The inventor of the world famous GNU operating system had come
to Australia to present at the Builder Conference, but that event
was cancelled. Instead, the Australian Computer Society took
advantage of his presence to arrange a speaking tour that took in
Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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