What's that Flags thing all about?

FlagsList is a completely Free service. We're not talking just about price here. See, there's a philosophy behind FlagsList: Knowledge and Information are free, and should stay that way. Our service is about maintaining that objective.

FlagsList runs a completely free service on completely Free software. The Linux operating system, the Apache webserver, and the Ecartis mailing manager are responsible for bringing FlagsList to you daily. Mhonarc and Swish-E work in conjunction to bring you the web-based archives. All of this software is Free software and we italicize that word over and over again to emphasize its importance.

So if knowledge and information is so free, why the limit on the scope of list topics? That was an arbitrary decision on our part. We do have limited bandwidth, and we can't afford (this whole thing comes out of our own pockets, you know) to fill it up with things like