About Larry

Larry the Free Software Guy, a.k.a. Larry Cafiero, 51, is the editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter — reappearing online in the summer 2009 — and runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California. While he fears no command line, he is relatively new to the free software movement, having been an advocate for free software since fall of 2006. Toward the end of 2006, he had an epiphany or satori regarding the social, philosophical, political and economic benefits of using free software and open source software — particularly the former — on his favored hardware (which was the Mac PowerPC platform, although he has warmed up to Intel machines as of late), and started a magazine and Web site to share his findings with everyone. Larry’s latest brush with fame was being the Green Party’s candidate for Insurance Commissioner in California in the 2006 election (270,218 votes, 3.2 percent).