The Freedom Toaster
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The Freedom Toaster is a project sponsored by Mark Shuttleworth's Shuttleworth Foundation. It consists of a number of CD burning facilities (in kiosk form), where members of the public may burn copies of open-source software onto self-supplied blank CD media.
The project was started as one solution to overcome the difficulty of obtaining Linux and other Open-source software in South Africa, where the restrictive telecommunications environment makes downloading large software files prohibitively expensive.
There are currently Freedom Toasters at the following locations: Bloemfontein, Cape Town (2), Diepkloof, Durban, East London, Grahamstown, Johannesburg (5), Knysna, Namibia, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth, Port Shepstone, Potchefstroom, Pretoria (3) and Stellenbosch.
