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Thinking about a successful Software, Hardware or Document freedom Day.

  • About 27 years ago the GNU project released the Gnu General Public Licence providing one of the first explicit framework of what a Free Software really isi.

  • About 25 years ago a Finn bragged on a small mailing list about his hobby "writing an operating system" ii, you probably know this under the GNU/Linux name iii

  • About 16 years ago Sun Microsystem bought and released an early multi platform document processing suite from a German Company called StarDivision and released it under a free licence enabling you to edit and share text, presentations, spreadsheets without depending of a single vendor iv

  • About 14 years ago the Mozilla foundation released it's first version of the Firefox browser and pulled the web out of what could have been a monopolistic grip v.

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