# Free as in Freedom (2002)

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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## Table of Contents

    Preface
    Chapter 1: For Want of a Printer
    Chapter 2: 2001: A Hacker's Odyssey
    Chapter 3: A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man
    Chapter 4: Impeach God
    Chapter 5: Puddle of Freedom
    Chapter 6: The Emacs Commune
    Chapter 7: A Stark Moral Choice
    Chapter 8: St. Ignucius
    Chapter 9: The GNU General Public License
    Chapter 10: GNU/Linux
    Chapter 11: Open Source
    Chapter 12: A Brief Journey Through Hacker Hell
    Chapter 13: Continuing the Fight
    Epilogue: Crushing Loneliness
    Appendix A: Terminology
    Appendix B: Hack, Hackers, and Hacking
    Appendix C: The GNU Free Documentation License
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