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In the spirit of the open source community, the author has made the book freely available online.

The spirit of the open source community is about collaborative development - ESR released this book under a license which prohibits modification. The term "open source" was invented to dispell the confusion between "free speech" and "free beer". Free Software and Open Source software are supposed to be free as in "free speech". ESR made this book available for free as in "free beer" - which is not what Open Source is about. He also violated his own rule of development by writing this book in a Cathederal style.

If someone would care to add a critique of the imaginary history that ESR has woven into this book, that'd be good. (I've done enough ESR exposing for one day.) Sometimes I think ESR edits these pages himself.Markvs 21:34, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

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