richard stallman and free software as a social movement
Here are some links about free software as a social movement:
- Richard Stallman’s book (pdf, with forward by Lessig) Free Software, Free Society
- An interview with Richard Stallman, Free software as a social movement
- Wiki entry for the free software movement
- Richard Stallman youtube lecture from earlier this year
- Stallman writing about Anonymous
- Stallman a few weeks ago on Facebook and social networks, etc. His advice: don’t use them.
Update: Jenn Lena adds a link in the comments, a 9000+ word rider on Stallman’s speaking contract.
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You’ve somehow overlooked my favorite part: the rider on his speaking contract:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html
Jenn Lena
December 29, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Probably I am oblivious to some on-going or published works, but I think this is something that many social scientists are involved in (e.g., the use of R, LaTex, etc.) but have been oblivious to as a real important research topic. Like Stallman, Donald Knuth, who compiled codes for tex, refuses to use email, but probably for other reasons (http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html).
LowSociologist
December 29, 2011 at 10:06 pm
The rider is totally one of my favorite bits. I blame Gelman.
EmilyKennedy
December 30, 2011 at 2:56 pm
The second link is interesting in its own right. Here’s a list of word occurrences:
73 software
59 free
32 patent[s]
29 freedom
25 system
23 people
21 gnu
19 operating
16 users
16 linux
13 unix
12 movement, business
11 power
9 programs, ideas
8 globalization, computing, computer
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