Free Software Linux

Given that the body of law forms a kind of source code for democracy, this is extremely good news: We already have a substantial free legal web, but it is not joined up. We have the resources and the technologies to join it up — now — for the benefit of lawyers and the community at large. Those of us who have an interest in access to the law and justice and the efficient provision of legal services have a duty to make this happen.

To this point...Launchpad isn't available under a free software license aside from its Storm component. However, Mark Shuttleworth has stated this afternoon that within the next 12 months they expect to release the source-code to Launchpad.

Ask average computer users what FOSS is about, and, if they've even heard of it, they'll probably say something about the source code being publicly available.