資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Live Free Or Die!
     
        1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that
        state's automobile licence 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 licence plates
        bearing this motto under a large Unix, all in New Hampshire
        colours of green and white.  These are now valued collector's
        items.