Free Software Free Society by Richard Stallman

Free Software Free Society by Richard Stallman
Free Software Free Society - Selected Essays by Richard Stallman

Introduction by Lawrence Lessig

The waning days of the 20th century seemed like an Orwellian nightmare: laws

preventing publication of scientific research on software; laws preventing sharing

software; an overabundance of software patents preventing development; and end-

user license agreements that strip the user of all freedoms—including ownership,

privacy, sharing, and understanding how their software works. This collection of

essays and speeches by Richard M. Stallman addresses many of these issues. Above

all, Stallman discusses the philosophy underlying the free software movement. This

movement combats the oppression of federal laws and evil end-user license agree-

ments in hopes of spreading the idea of software freedom.