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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