Free software is un-american
As originally seen at Linux Weekly News
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:07:29 -0800
From: Tracy R Reed
To: letters@lwn.net
Subject: An "Un-American" essay
Following is an essay I wrote and cc'd to a couple dozen friends. They
have suggested I send it here so here it is. Feel free to publish it,
trash it, laugh at it, whatever you like. :)
Read this first:
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc
Microsoft is speaking to lawmakers to have open source software outlawed.
Open source software is computer software created by a bunch of people
from all over the world working together on the Internet to program
computers for the fun of it and then release the software to the public
free of charge. Linux is a classic example.