4. We are an unofficial group of Egyptian volunteers gathered about believing in Free Software Philosophy and Open Source Model, and the love of Gnu/Linux OS.
5. We aim to serve the Egyptian FOSS comnunity and promote using FOSS in Egypt.
19. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
20. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
21. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
25. Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in "free speech" , not as in "free beer" .
26. Open Source is a development methodology; Free Software is a social movement.
60. Cygnus (1989): First business model in FOSS, Technical support for GNU tools (merged with RedHat 1999)
61. Netscape(1998): First big company turned into FOSS (netscape => mozilla). This was highly influenced by "the cathedral and the bazar" which they heared in the perl conference in 1997