Live Free Or Die!

Live Free Or Die! imp.  1. The state motto of New Hampshire,
   which appears on that state's automobile license plates.  2. A
   slogan associated with UNIX in the romantic days when UNIX
   aficionados saw themselves as a tiny, beleaguered underground
   tilting against the windmills of industry.  The "free" referred
   specifically to freedom from the {fascist} design philosophies
   and crufty misfeatures common on commercial operating systems.
   Armando Stettner, one of the early UNIX developers, used to give
   out fake license plates bearing this motto under a large UNIX, all
   in New Hampshire colors of green and white.  These are now valued
   collector's items.  Recently (1994) an inferior imitation of these
   has been put in circulation with a red corporate logo added.