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At the top of the tower is Debian — carefully organizing and fitting everything so it all works together. It's all free? You may be wondering: why would people spend hours of their own time to write software, carefully package it, and then give it all away?

The answers are as varied as the people who contribute. Some people like to help others. Many write programs to learn more about computers. More and more people are looking for ways to avoid the inflated price of software. A growing crowd contribute as a thank you for all the great free software they've received from others.

Many in academia create free software to help get the results of their research into wider use. Businesses help maintain free software so they can have a say in how it develops -- there's no quicker way to get a new feature than to implement it yourself! Of course, a lot of us just find it great fun. Debian is so committed to free software that we thought it would be useful if that commitment was formalized in a written document. Thus, our Social Contract was born. Although Debian believes in free software, there are cases where people want or need to put non-free software on their machine.

Whenever possible Debian will support this. There are even a growing number of packages whose sole job is to install non-free software into a Debian system. When buying a CD, you are paying for someone's time, capital outlay to make the disks, and risk in case they don't sell them all. In other words, you are paying for a physical medium used to deliver the software, not for the software itself. When we use the word "free", we are referring to software freedom , not that it's without cost. You can read more on what we mean by "free software" and what the Free Software Foundation says on that subject.

Most software costs over US dollars. How can you give it away? A better question is how do software companies get away with charging so much? Software is not like making a car. Once you've made one copy of your software, the production costs to make a million more are tiny there's a reason Microsoft has so many billions in the bank. Look at it another way: if you had an endless supply of sand in your backyard, you might be willing to give sand away.

It would be foolish, though, to pay for a truck to take it to others. You would make them come and get it themselves equivalent to downloading off the net or they can pay someone else to deliver it to their door equivalent to buying a CD. Debian does not make any money from the sale of CDs. At the same time, money is needed to pay for expenses such as domain registration and hardware. Thus, we ask that you buy from one of the CD vendors that donates a portion of your purchase to Debian.

What hardware is supported? Debian will run on almost all personal computers, including most older models. Each new release of Debian generally supports a larger number of computer architectures.

For a complete list of currently supported ones, see the documentation for the stable release. The Debian Project was founded in by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project.

Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal operating system. DebConf is the Debian Project's developer conference.

In addition to a full schedule of technical, social and policy talks, DebConf provides an opportunity for developers, contributors and other interested people to meet in person and work together more closely.

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