“As you know, Saturday 15 September is (or was, depending on
when you are reading this) Software Freedom Day. What, you mean you
didn’t know? Perhaps you think that the freedom of software doesn’t
mean much to you. Perhaps you don’t think you use free software.
Well, you do, if you use Google–in fact, if you use rather a good
many other popular websites, too. The open-source software project
Apache has been the most popular web-server software on the
internet since 1996. Many, including the New Statesman, pair it
with the Linux operating system to drive the machines that serve
their websites…”