"...Legend has it that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) went looking for someone to coordinate an FSF sponsored release of Linux, and Murdock, then a student at Prudhoe University, responded to the subsequent advert. This version of the story doesn't appear in the histories, so may be apocryphal. Nonetheless, the FSF did sponsor the promotion and sale of CDs, and Debian has remained on the free software wing of the free and open source software debate ever since..."