Free software, free society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman Richard M. Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Joshua Gay, Laurence Lessig The intersection of ethics, law, business and computer software is the subject of these essays and speeches by MacArthur Foundation Grant winner, Richard M. Stallman.
January 12, 2020 Richard M. Stallman Lawrence Lessig Joshua Gay 642 Books Free Software Free Society Selected Essays This collection includes historical writings such as The GNU Manifesto which defined and launched the activist Free Software Movement along with new writings on hot topics in copyright patent law.
Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. 25 Aug 2013.. there are few people quite as passionate about the subject as Dr Richard Stallman. As founder of the Free Software Foundation, Stallman has for at least the last three decades been the most prominent advocate for 'free software'.(acp footnote)Stallman is also.
There he publishes regular interviews with OA advocates, essays on OA, plus on-going commentary on the movement. He has also published a series of interviews (The Basement Interviews) with leading advocates of other free and open movements, including with Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Jay Rosen and Joe Trippi (pdf).
Free software for a free society is the first Castilian edition authorized by Richard M. Stallman of his book Free Software, Free Society. An exhaustive set of essays and articles that cover the 1990s and the first years of the new millennium, and that perhaps constitute the best written apology of free software as a device for freedom and democracy.
Early life. Stallman was born to Alice Lippman, a school teacher, and Daniel Stallman, a printing press broker, in 1953 in New York City. He was interested in computers at a young age; when Stallman was a pre-teen at a summer camp, he read manuals for the IBM 7094. From 1967 to 1969, Stallman attended a Columbia University Saturday program for high school students.