Share and enjoy!
1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements and
README files, this phrase indicates allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see
hacker ethic).
2. The motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent
suits) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal appeals to
freeware hackers.
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