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title: "On joining the FSF: The first actually useful membership card?"
date: 2002-12-22T22:24:41-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/12/22/ooocfo/
author: Les Orchard
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# On joining the FSF: The first actually useful membership card?

Mark Pilgrim <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/12/22.html#pony_the_hell_up">writes</a>: "I am now a <a href="http://member.fsf.org/">card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation</a>.  Software is free, but lawyers are expensive."
And from the FSF membership page:<blockquote><i>You will receive a personalized, bootable, business-card-sized GNU/Linux distribution as your membership card.
This GNU/Linux distribution is based on LNX-BBC. New cards will be sent to renewing members every year if and only if there is a new major release of LNX-BBC.</i></blockquote>
So, not only can you give a little something back to a project from which most of us have benefitted from - you'll also get a membership card that's as useful in and of itself as carrying a swiss army knife, and as far as I know, it won't get confiscated from you at the airport.
(Oh, and this entry is a test of the <a href="http://ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/">NetNewsWire Pro Beta</a> weblog editor.  This is only a test.)
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 i need the membership card of my name 
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