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[2] SourceForge.net, one popular hosting site, had 79,225 projects registered as of mid-April 2004. This is nowhere near the total number of free software projects on the Internet, of course; it's just the number that chose to use SourceForge.

[3] Stallman uses the word "hacker" in the sense of "someone who loves to program and enjoys being clever about it," not the relatively new meaning of "someone who breaks into computers."

[4] It stands for "GNU's Not Unix", and the "GNU" in that expansion stands for...the same thing.

[5] Technically, Linux was not the first. A free operating system for IBM-compatible computers, called 386BSD, had come out shortly before Linux. However, it was a lot harder to get 386BSD up and running. Linux made such a splash not only because it was free, but because it actually had a high chance of booting your computer when you installed it.

[6] They prefer it to be called the "X Window System", but in practice, people usually call it "X Windows", because three words is just too cumbersome.

[7] One may charge a fee for giving out copies of free software, but since one cannot stop the recipients from offering it at no charge afterwards, the price is effectively driven to zero immediately.

[8] The source code to Netscape Navigator was eventually released under an open source license, in 1998, and became the foundation for the Mozilla web browser. See http://www.mozilla.org/.

[9] OSI's web home is http://www.opensource.org/.