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Share and enjoy!


Share and enjoy!: imp. 1. Commonly found at the end of software
   release announcements and README files, this phrase indicates
   allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see
   hacker ethic, the, sense 1).  2. The motto of the Sirius
   Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent
   suits) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the
   Galaxy".  The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal
   appeals to freeware hackers.