Ebook: Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
Author: Stallman Richard, Stallman Richard, Williams Sam
- Tags: Free Software Foundation (Cambridge Mass.), Stallman Richard, Hackers, United States, Biography, Computer programmers, United States, Biography, Computer software, Hacking, Open source software, COMPUTERS, Software Development & Engineering, General, COMPUTERS, Software Development & Engineering, Systems Analysis & Design, Computer programmers, Hackers, United States
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- City: Sebastopol, United States
- Language: English
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Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. Free as in Freedom examines one man's 20-year attempt to codify and communicate the Read more...
Abstract: Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. Free as in Freedom examines one man's 20-year attempt to codify and communicate the ethics of 1970s era "hacking" culture in such a way that later generations might easily share and build upon the knowledge of their computing forebears. The book documents Stallman's page