'Freedom toaster' kiosk burns software for South African consumers
26 Aug 2008
(Green Point, South Africa) News24.com: Open source software costs nothing to own, and now costs nothing to obtain thanks to a group of entrepreneurs determined to get around the problem of expensive bandwidth in South Africa. The Freedom Toaster originally started in 2005 as a project by the Shuttleworth Foundation as a software kiosk where anyone can burn — or "toast" in Linux jargon — open source software such as Linux and other information onto CDs and DVDs.