Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

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First published2004-05-01
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Gutenberg ID#5768

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"Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software" by Sam Williams is a biography published in 2002. The book chronicles the life of Richard Stallman, the controversial founder of the free software movement. Through interviews with Stallman, his family, classmates, and colleagues, Williams explores both the public crusader and private person behind the revolutionary idea that software should be free to use, modify, and share. The biography examines how one programmer's vision challenged the entire computer industry. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

  • Stallman, Richard
  • Free Software Foundation (Cambridge, Mass.)
  • Computer programmers -- United States -- Biography
  • Computer hackers -- United States -- Biography
  • Open source software
  • QA

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