Footnotes

Chapter 1

1. Since Wikipedia contains Linux information and must therefore refer to Linux frequently, the debate has particular relevance to Wikipedia itself. The discussion page for the Wikipedia article is also well worth reading.

2. After all, “GNU’s not UNIX!”

3. Several of our technical reviewers protested that we seem to be crediting GNU with the creation of most of the world’s free software. We are not! However, GNU has certainly done more than any other group to promote the idea of free software as a social enterprise and to structure ongoing debate about licensing terms and interactions between free and nonfree software.

4. We consider a “production” environment to be one that an organization relies on to accomplish real work ...

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