virtual beer

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virtual beer - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  virtual beer
   n.
  
     Praise or thanks. Used universally in the Linux community. Originally
     this term signified cash, after a famous incident in which some
     Britishers who wanted to buy Linus a beer sent him money to Finland
  to
     do so.