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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Live Free Or Die!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="live-data.html" title="live data"/><link rel="next" href="livelock.html" title="livelock"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Live Free Or Die!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="live-data.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="livelock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Live-Free-Or-Die-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Live-Free-Or-Die-"><b>Live Free Or Die!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's
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automobile license plates.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A slogan associated with Unix in the romantic days when Unix
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aficionados saw themselves as a tiny, beleaguered underground tilting
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against the windmills of industry. The “<span class="quote">free</span>” referred
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specifically to freedom from the <a href="../F/fascist.html"><i class="glossterm">fascist</i></a> design
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philosophies and crufty misfeatures common on competing operating systems.
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Armando Stettner, one of the early Unix developers, used to give out fake
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license plates bearing this motto under a large Unix, all in New Hampshire
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colors of green and white. These are now valued collector's items. In
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1994 <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> put an inferior imitation of these in
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circulation with a red corporate logo added. Compaq (half of which was
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once DEC) continued the practice.</p><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../graphics/licenseplate.jpg"/><div class="caption"><p>Armando Stettner's original Unix license plate.</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="live-data.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="livelock.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">live data </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> livelock</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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