Free, as in Beer

  2006-09-07 21:30:02
Ever since the birth of the free software movement, its defenders have struggled to explain just what"free software" is. If it is free, how do coders eat? And how do businesses that support the software – IBM, Hewlett-Packard – make any money from it?[Like I was saying in a thread about MS, what is thereally imporant issue?, corporations making money. Even Lessig knows that. - Scott] 
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