A downloading guide for freeloaders

[KiwiCoromandel]

RICHARD Stallman once wrote that the point about free software is it is "free as in freedom, not free as in beer", meaning people should be at liberty to do as they pleased with software, rather than subscribe to its restrictive licences.

As the economic crisis takes hold, the stress may be on the second half of his aphorism. To the millions downloading free software in an economic crisis, the point is that it is free, as in free beer.

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source: The Guardian

images: Fair Use/www.masternewmedia.org/www.cyberciti.bi: FREE SOFTWARE: "Remaining largely untouched are the paid-for applications we run on our computers - the operating systems and desktop applications licensed from giants such as Microsoft, Adobe and Apple. But with money becoming increasingly scarce, and the free alternatives growing in sophistication, free is finally threatening to go mainstream."