2013 February 12 archive at Robert Pogson

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I ♥ Free Software

Published by Robert Pogson February 12th, 2013 in technology. 3 Comments

see I ♥ Free Software – Valentine's Day 2013 – FSFE.

Amen! For me Free Software is the right way to do IT. Bridging the digital divide, giving opportunity to all everywhere, producing great software at minimum cost and getting the best performance from hardware are all good reasons to love Free Software above and

beyond the terms of the licence:

OK to run the software,
OK to examine the code,
OK to modify the code, and
OK to distribute the code modified or not under the same terms.

Love it!

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.