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by pan69 4468 days ago
It's a pun on a way to explain open source: Free as in freedom, not free as in free beer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom:_Richard_Sta...

So Free Beer isn't beer you don't pay for but it's recipe is freely available, i.e. open source.