Software Freedom Day and the Open Source Way | Linux Today

Software Freedom Day and the Open Source Way

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 12, 2007

“Mark this Saturday, September 15th, in your diary. It’s
Software Freedom Day and it’s coming to you. That’s ‘free’ as in
‘free lunch’ but also ‘free’ as in liberty.

“Software Freedom Day is described by its organising body as a
global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the
importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of
free and open source software (“FOSS”). Previously, Software
Freedom Day garnered 200 teams around the world and is sure to well
exceed that figure this time around in 60 different nations…”

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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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