De Programmatica Ipsum"I barely knew what a “kernel” was, even less why it would need to be recompiled, and I obviously thought that free meant “without cost.” When you are a cash strapped university student, free is always good; it does not really matter if it is a free lunch, a free beer, or a free kernel. Free is good™®©, or so they say."
Open Always Wins
Few debates in the computer industry are as passionate as those around Free and Open Source Software (otherwise referred to as "FOSS") and how it "benefits society" or promotes "ethics" or some other optimist outcome for the future of mankind. The problem is that this ongoing debate for the past 20 years has only served the purpose of making people look in the wrong direction.