It was started in November 2004 by Australian Tony Mobily, the former editor of TUX Magazine,[1] under the auspices of The Open Company Partners, Inc. (based in the United States), and carried the subtitle The free magazine for the free software world.

"[3] However, the high costs of printing and postage resulted in the magazine moving to exclusively electronic publication via PDF.

However, the project died before it could gain momentum, mainly because of the huge hardware resources required by Slash and the time constraints of the FSM staff.

Drigg was developed by Free Software Magazine's editor Tony Mobily specifically for FSDaily.

The book, Achieving Impossible Things with Free Culture and Commons-Based Enterprise by Terry Hancock, was published both as a printed book and as a series of free articles[8] released under an "Attribution Share-Alike" Creative Commons license.