Free Software, Free Society
Subtitle: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Contributors: Joshua Gay (Editor)
Publisher: Free Software Foundation
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781882114986
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Law; Computers - General Information; Philosophy; Social Aspects - General; Business Software - General; Intellectual Property - General; Computer Bks - General Information
First sentence: "When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years."
Table of contents: title: The GNU Project; title: The GNU Manifesto; title: Free Software Definition; title: Why Software Should Not Have Owners; title: What's in a Name?; title: Why "Free Software" is Better than "Open Source"; title: Releasing Free Software if You Work at a University; title: Selling Free Software; title: Free Software Needs Free Documentation; title: Free Software Song; title: The Right to Read; title: Misinterpreting Copyright - A Series of Errors; title: Science Must 'Push' Copyright Aside; title: What is Copyleft?; title: Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism; title: The Danger of Software Patents; title: Can You Trust Your Computer?; title: Why Software Should Be Free; title: Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks; title: Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation; title: Words to Avoid