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Jon Maddog Hall is executive director of Linux International, a not-for-profit group promoting the open-source operating system.

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Free as in freedom, not as in price Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Fernando Cavalcanti / Campus Party under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Jon "Maddog" Hall (Guest), Gareth Mitchell (Guest)

08 February 2011

Linux champion Jon "Maddog" Hall loves the exchange of ideas - and the pace - of Campus Party. He tells Gareth Mitchell why 'free' is...  Read more : Free as in freedom, not as in price

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Free as in freedom, not as in price

Comment posted by ajh59

11 Mar 2011

I think that references in the first part of the interview are made in the sense of 'little-o' open source software as in the "open" availability of the source code, rather than in the sense of... Read more : Free as in freedom, not as in price

Free as in freedom, not as in price

Comment posted by zz758161

09 Mar 2011

So many things wrong with this interview, I'll pick at various points. The Open Source movement spawned from the Free Software movement. Think of the latter as a development methodology and free... Read more : Free as in freedom, not as in price

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Jon Maddog Hall is executive director of Linux International, a not-for-profit group promoting the open-source operating system.
His unusual nickname is, he says, a testament to times when he had less control over his temper.

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