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Live Free Or Die!
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imp. 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's
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automobile license plates. 2. A slogan associated with Unix in the romantic
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days when Unix aficionados saw themselves as a tiny, beleaguered underground
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tilting against the windmills of industry. The free referred specifically to
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freedom from the fascist design philosophies and crufty misfeatures common
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on competing operating systems. Armando Stettner, one of the early Unix
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developers, used to give out fake license plates bearing this motto under a
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large Unix, all in New Hampshire colors of green and white. These are now
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valued collector's items. In 1994 DEC put an inferior imitation of these in
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circulation with a red corporate logo added. Compaq (half of which was once
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DEC) continued the practice. Armando Stettner's original Unix license plate.
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