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• PD: /P-D/ adj. Common abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over {USENET} and from Internet archive sites.
  Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting reproduction and use rights to anyone who can {snarf} a copy....
• copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n. [play on `copyright'] 1.
  The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also General Public Virus)....
• Q: Does Bill Gates use public domain software? A: Yes, as all of the public has become Bill Gates' domain.
• domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. [Usenet, by pointed analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.
  ] Someone who judges people by the domain of their email addresse...
• copyleft: /kop'ee-left/ [play on `copyright'] n. 1.
  The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by {GNU} {EMACS} and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also {General Public Virus})....
• big-endian adj. [common; From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1.
  Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first')....
• GPL /G-P-L/ n. Abbreviation for `General Public License' in widespread use
  ee copyleft, General Publi...
• We hack, crack, and pirate all sorts of Public Domain software.
• Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance.