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CNET News: Bringing Free Software to the Masses

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 15, 2006

“You’d think it would be easy to research the right-hand man of
free-software icon Richard Stallman, given the mass of information
online about the free-software movement.

“But a search on ‘Peter Brown’–the executive director of the
Free Software Foundation–and ‘free software’ produces only 14,000
hits on Google and little information about Brown’s past…”


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(Feb 22, 2005)

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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