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Old 09-16-2009, 06:53 AM   #1
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Coincidence, piracy and freedom


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I remembered that software freedom dayhttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Home and talk like a pirate day http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html are going to crash heads on the same day, Saturday
  • Isn't this odd?
  • Given that many people, thoroughly erroneously, seem to associate free software with piracy, is this also unfortunate? Or is it, maybe, a welcome opportunity to explain exactly what the free software movement is really about?
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Old 09-17-2009, 03:49 PM   #2
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I would be willing to bet quite a lot that the average person has never heard of Free Software day or Talk Like a Pirate day, and most certainly will never know they fell on the same day. So I would say this isn't going to do much for public perception.
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