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CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
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Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/07/21 09:02:49
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<title>Essays and Articles
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" />
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- <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
- src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
- title="Section contents"
- alt=" [Section contents] " /></a>
-
-<p class="breadcrumb">
- <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24"
- alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> /
- <a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Philosophy</a> /
-</p>
-</div>
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-<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
<h2>Essays and Articles</h2>
+<div class="thin"></div>
+<div class="comment">
<p>This page lists a series of articles describing the philosophy of the
free software movement, which is the motivation for our development of
-the free software operating system GNU.</p>
+the free software operating system GNU. Unless otherwise stated, these
+articles were written by Richard Stallman.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="button c">
+<a href="/philosophy/latest-articles.html">Latest articles</a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="summary" style="margin-top: 3em">
+<h3 class="no-display">Table of Contents</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#aboutfs">Free Software</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#principles">Principles</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#practice">Practice</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#other">Extension to other areas</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#mix">Mixing free and nonfree</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#free-open">Free software vs open source</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#upholding">Upholding Software Freedom</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/gnu.html">GNU</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#fsmovement">The free software movement</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#need">The need for free software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#strategies">Guide for action</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#LicensingFreeSoftware">Licensing</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">General information</a>
+ <li><a href="#copyleft">Copyleft</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#non-copyleft">Non-copyleft</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#traps">Licensing traps</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#microsoft">Microsoft and free software</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#Laws">Laws</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#patents">Patents</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#copyright">Copyright</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#noip">The propaganda term “Intellectual
+ Property”</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#cultural">Cultural and Social Issues</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#society">Digital society</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#drm">Digital restrictions management</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#access">Access to culture</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#funding">Funding of cultural works</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#ns">Network services</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#surveillance">Surveillance, censorship, etc.</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Definitions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#humor">Philosophical Humor</a></li>
+</ul>
+<hr class="no-display" />
+</div>
-<h3 id="aboutfs">About Free Software</h3>
+<div style="width: 47em; max-width: 100%">
+<h3 id="aboutfs" class="subheader">Free Software</h3>
<p>
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use
software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs
@@ -44,523 +86,554 @@
These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe
software users should be able to make use of them.</p>
+<h4 id="principles">Principles</h4>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">What is Free Software?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.html">Why
- Software Should Not Have Owners</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/shouldbefree.html">Why
- Software Should Be Free</a> (This is an older and longer
- essay about the same topic as the previous one)</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-doc.html">Why Free Software Needs
- Free Documentation</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/when-free-depends-on-nonfree.html">
- When Free Software Depends on Nonfree</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/selling.html">Selling Free Software</a> is OK!</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free and
- Non-Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html"> FLOSS and FOSS</a></li>
- <li><a href="/software/reliability.html">Free Software is More
Reliable!</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.html">
- When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Superior</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
- “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html">How Free Software and
- Open Source Relate as Categories of Programs</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html">Linux, GNU, and
- Freedom</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gnutella.html"
- id="Gnutella">Regarding Gnutella</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/schools.html">Why Schools Should Use
- Exclusively Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/my_doom.html">MyDoom and You</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html">
- 15 Years of Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-intro.html">Free Software
movement</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html">
- Your Freedom Needs Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/fs-motives.html">
- Motives For Writing Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/government-free-software.html">Measures
- Governments Can Use to Promote Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/uruguay.html">Lesson from Uruguay</a>. The FSF
- learned something from a bill presented in Uruguay.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html">
+ <li>[From 1996] <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">What is Free
+ Software?</a></li>
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
+ Free Software Is Even More Important Now</a></li>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html">
Why programs must not limit the freedom to run them</a> —
Freedom 0 must not be limited.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/imperfection-isnt-oppression.html">
- Imperfection is not the same as oppression</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/applying-free-sw-criteria.html">
+ <li>[2007] <a href="/philosophy/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html">
+ Your Freedom Needs Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/selling.html">Selling Free Software</a> is
+ OK!</li>
+ <li>[1994] <a href="/philosophy/why-free.html">Why Software Should Not Have
+ Owners</a></li>
+ <li>[1991] <a href="/philosophy/shouldbefree.html">Why Software Should Be
+ Free</a> — An older and longer essay about the same topic as
+ the previous one.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="practice">Practice</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/applying-free-sw-criteria.html">
Applying the Free Software Criteria</a></li>
+ <li>[2014] <a href="/philosophy/imperfection-isnt-oppression.html">
+ Imperfection is not the same as oppression</a></li>
+ <li>[2011] <a href="/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html">Android
+ and Users' Freedom</a></li>
+ <li>[1999-2011] <a
+ href="/philosophy/when-free-software-isnt-practically-superior.html">
+ When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Superior</a> by Benjamin Mako
+ Hill</li>
+ <li>[1997-2011] <a href="/software/reliability.html">Free Software is More
+ Reliable!</a></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="LicensingFreeSoftware">Licensing Free Software</h3>
+<h4 id="other">Extension to other areas</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2020] <a href="/philosophy/free-software-rocket.html">Should Rockets
+ Have Only Free Software? Free Software and Appliances
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html">
+ Free Hardware and Free Hardware Designs</a></li>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">
+ Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues</a></li>
+ <li>[2000] <a href="/philosophy/gnutella.html" id="Gnutella">Regarding
+ Gnutella</a></li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/free-doc.html">Why Free Software Needs Free
+ Documentation</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h4 id="mix">Mixing free and nonfree</h4>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html">Why You Shouldn't Use the
- Lesser GPL for Your Next Library</a></li>
- <li><a href="/licenses/copyleft.html">Copyleft</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/why-copyleft.html">Why Copyleft?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/university.html">Releasing Free Software if
- You Work at a University</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/pragmatic.html">Copyleft: Pragmatic
Idealism</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">Javascript Trap</a>.
- You may be running nonfree programs on your computer
- every day without realizing it—through your web browser.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050211.html";>
- Censorship envy and licensing</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/x.html">The X Window System Trap</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/apsl.html">The Problems of the Apple
License</a></li>
- <li><a href="/licenses/bsd.html">The BSD License Problem</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/netscape-npl.html">The Netscape Public License
- Has Serious Problems</a>. An <a href="/philosophy/netscape-npl-old.html">
- earlier version of this article</a> is also available.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/udi.html">The Free Software Movement and
UDI</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gates.html">It's not the Gates, it's the
- bars</a>, an article by Richard Stallman published in BBC News in
- 2008.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html">Is Microsoft the Great Satan?</a>
- (An <a href="/philosophy/microsoft-old.html">older version</a> of
- this article is also available.)</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust.html">The Microsoft
- Antitrust Trial and Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft-verdict.html">On the Microsoft
Verdict</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html">
- Microsoft's New Monopoly</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/lest-codeplex-perplex.html">
- Lest CodePlex perplex</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/plan-nine.html" id="PlanNineLicense">
- The Problems of the Plan 9 License</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/motif.html" id="MotifLicense">
- The New Motif License</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/using-gfdl.html" id="UsingGFDL">Using the GNU
FDL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html" id="GPLAmericanWay">
- The GNU GPL and the American Way</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gpl-american-dream.html" id="GPLAmericanDream">
- The GNU GPL and the American Dream</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html" id="EnforcingGPL">
- Enforcing the GNU GPL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html">
- On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html" id="FreedomOrPower">
- Freedom or Power?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" id="NoWordAttachments">
- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/java-trap.html" id="JavaTrap">
- Free But Shackled - The Java Trap</a> (Although Sun has
- <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html";>
- relicensed</a> most of its Java platform reference implementation
- under the GNU General Public License, the issue described in this
- article still remains important.)</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/rtlinux-patent.html">GPL-compliant version
- of RTLinux Open Patent License in Works</a></li>
+ <li>[2016] <a href="/philosophy/when-free-depends-on-nonfree.html">
+ When Free Software Depends on Nonfree</a></li>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="/philosophy/mcvoy.html">Thank You, Larry McVoy</a></li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html">
+ Is It Ever a Good Thing to Use a Nonfree Program?</a></li>
+ <li>[1998] <a href="/philosophy/udi.html">The Free Software Movement and
+ UDI</a></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="Laws">Laws and Issues</h3>
+<h4 id="free-open">Free software vs open source</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2007-2021] <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
+ “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html">How Free Software
+ and Open Source Relate as Categories of Programs</a></li>
+ <li>[2013] <a href="/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html"> FLOSS and
+ FOSS</a></li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html">Linux, GNU, and
+ Freedom</a></li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/drdobbs-letter.html">
+ Letter to the Editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal</a> on the distinction
+ between the free software and open source movements.</li>
+ <li>[1998] <a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">“Open
+ Source Software” or “Free Software”?</a> (replaced
+ with <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
+ “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a>)</li>
+</ul>
-<p><a href="/philosophy/stallmans-law.html">Stallman's Law</a></p>
-<h4 id="patents">Patents</h4>
+<h3 id="upholding" class="subheader">Upholding Software Freedom</h3>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">Giving the Software
- Field Protection from Patents</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/gnu.html">GNU</a> — History, relationship with
+ Linux, etc.</li>
+</ul>
+</h4>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/w3c-patent.html">FSF's Position on W3
- Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy</a>
- rewritten</li>
-
- <li>How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/protecting.html">Right
- to Write Software</a> (whether it's free or not).</li>
-
- <li>In <a
href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/princeton-scientists-sue-over-squelched-research";>
- Felten v. RIAA</a>, scientists are asking a court to rule that the
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not prohibit them from
- publishing their research.</li>
+<h4 id="fsmovement">The free software movement</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2004] <a href="/philosophy/use-free-software.html">The Free Software
+ Community After 20 Years</a> — With great but incomplete success,
+ what now?</li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html">
+ 15 Years of Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/free-software-intro.html">Free Software
+ movement</a></li>
+ <li>External link
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software Foundation website</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="need">The need for free software</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2011-2017] <a href="/philosophy/government-free-software.html">
+ Measures Governments Can Use to Promote Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2009-2014] <a href="/education/edu-schools.html">Why Schools Should
+ Use Exclusively Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2014] <a href="/philosophy/technological-neutrality.html">
+ Technological Neutrality and Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2013] <a href="/philosophy/uruguay.html">Lesson from Uruguay</a>
+ — The FSF learned something from a bill presented in Uruguay.</li>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="/philosophy/second-sight.html">Free Software and
+ (e-)Government</a> (originally published in <cite>The Guardian</cite>
+ under the title “Second Sight”)</li>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="/philosophy/fs-and-sustainable-development.html">Free
+ Software and Sustainable Development</a> — A short article
+ regarding the use of proprietary software in cultural development.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="strategies">Guide for action</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2020] <a href="/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html">Saying No to
+ unjust computing even once is help</a></li>
+ <li>[2002-2020] <a href="/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html"
+ id="NoWordAttachments">We Can Put an End to Word Attachments</a></li>
+ <li>[2019] <a href="/philosophy/install-fest-devil.html">Install Fests:
+ What to Do about the Deal with the Devil</a></li>
+ <li>[2019] <a href="/philosophy/upgrade-windows.html">What Is the Right Way
+ to Upgrade an Installation of Windows?</a></li>
+ <li>[2018] <a href="kind-communication">GNU Kind Communications
+ Guidelines</a></li>
+ <li>[2017] <a href="/philosophy/hackathons.html">
+ Why Hackathons Should Insist on Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2014] <a href="/philosophy/contradictory-support.html">
+ Beware of Contradictory “Support”</a></li>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/devils-advocate.html">
+ Why the Devil's Advocate Doesn't Help Reach the Truth</a></li>
+ <li>[2010] <a href="/philosophy/practical.html">The Advantages of Free
+ Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2009] <a href="/philosophy/pirate-party.html">How the Swedish Pirate
+ Party Platform Backfires on Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2009] <a href="/philosophy/fs-motives.html">Motives For Writing Free
+ Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2008] <a href="/philosophy/ucita.html">Why We Must Fight UCITA</a></li>
+ <li>[2008] <a href="/philosophy/compromise.html">Avoiding Ruinous
+ Compromises</a></li>
+ <li>[2007] <a href="/philosophy/social-inertia.html">Overcoming Social
+ Inertia</a></li>
+ <li>[2004] <a href="/philosophy/my_doom.html">MyDoom and You</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/search/site/dvd cases/">EFF
- “Intellectual Property”: MPAA (Motion Picture Association of
- America) DVD Cases Archive</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">Patent
- Reform Is Not Enough</a></li>
+<h3 id="LicensingFreeSoftware" class="subheader">Licensing</h3>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/savingeurope.html">Saving Europe from
- Software Patents</a></li>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">General information on licensing
+ and copyleft</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/europes-unitary-patent.html">Europe's
- “unitary patent” could mean unlimited software patents</a></li>
+<h4 id="copyleft">Copyleft</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2009-2017] <a href="/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html">On Selling
+ Exceptions to the GNU GPL</a></li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/why-copyleft.html">Why Copyleft?</a></li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/university.html">Releasing Free Software if
+ You Work at a University</a></li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html" id="GPLAmericanWay">
+ The GNU GPL and the American Way</a></li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/gpl-american-dream.html"
+ id="GPLAmericanDream">The GNU GPL and the American Dream</a> by Bradley
+ M. Kuhn</li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html" id="FreedomOrPower">
+ Freedom or Power?</a> by Bradley M. Kuhn and Richard Stallman</li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/rtlinux-patent.html">GPL-compliant version
+ of RTLinux Open Patent License in Works</a></li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html" id="EnforcingGPL">
+ Enforcing the GNU GPL</a> by Eben Moglen</li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/using-gfdl.html" id="UsingGFDL">Using the
+ GNU FDL</a></li>
+ <li>[1998] <a href="/philosophy/pragmatic.html">Copyleft: Pragmatic
+ Idealism</a></li>
+
+ <li>External links
+ <ul>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050211.html";>
+ Censorship envy and licensing</a> by David "Novalis" Turner</li>
+ <li>[2004] <a
href="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/archive/downloads/research/gpl/OIIFB_GPL2_20040903.pdf";>
+ English translation of the famous decision of the District Court of
+ Munich</a> regarding the enforceability and validity of the GPL, by the
+ translators of the Oxford Internet Institute.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">Boycott Amazon!</a></li>
+<h4 id="non-copyleft">Non-copyleft</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/licenses/bsd.html">The BSD License Problem</a></li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/apsl.html">The Problems of the Apple
+ License</a></li>
+ <li>[2000] <a href="/philosophy/plan-nine.html" id="PlanNineLicense">The
+ Problems of the Plan 9 License</a></li>
+ <li>[1998] <a href="/philosophy/netscape-npl.html">The Netscape Public
+ License Has Serious Problems</a> (An <a
+ href="/philosophy/netscape-npl-old.html">earlier version of this
+ article</a> is also available.)</li>
+ <li>[1998] <a href="/philosophy/netscape.html">Netscape and Free
+ Software</a> — An old article that clarifies some
+ misunderstandings about an announcement by Netscape.</li>
+ <li>[1997] <a href="/philosophy/motif.html" id="MotifLicense">The New Motif
+ License</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon-nat.html">Amazon Boycott Success!</a>, a
- letter from Nat Friedman to Richard Stallman.</li>
+<h4 id="traps">Licensing traps</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2009-2019] <a href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">JavaScript
+ Trap</a> — You may be running nonfree programs on your computer
+ every day without realizing it—through your web browser.</li>
+ <li>[2004-2015] <a href="/philosophy/java-trap.html" id="JavaTrap">
+ Free But Shackled - The Java Trap</a> — Although Sun has
+ <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html";>
+ relicensed</a> most of its Java platform reference implementation
+ under the GNU General Public License, the issue described in this
+ article still remains important.</li>
+ <li>[1998-2009] <a href="/philosophy/x.html">The X Window System
+ Trap</a></li>
+ <li>[2006] <a href="/philosophy/sun-in-night-time.html">The Curious
+ Incident of Sun in the Night-Time</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon-rms-tim.html">Letter from RMS to Tim
- O'Reilly</a> in regard to a statement by Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, on
- the duration of software patents.</li>
+<h4 id="microsoft">Microsoft and free software</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2009] <a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html">Is Microsoft the
+ Great Satan?</a> (An <a href="/philosophy/microsoft-old.html">older
+ version</a> of this article is also available.)</li>
+ <li>[2009] <a href="/philosophy/lest-codeplex-perplex.html">
+ Lest CodePlex perplex</a></li>
+ <li>[2008] <a href="/philosophy/gates.html">It's not the Gates, it's the
+ bars</a></li>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html">
+ Microsoft's New Monopoly</a></li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/sco/sco-gnu-linux.html">SCO, GNU, and
+ Linux</a> — How SCO's lawsuit against IBM pertains to the work of
+ the GNU project. Please see the <a
+ href="/philosophy/sco/sco.html">FSF SCO Response Page</a> for more
+ details on this subject.</li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/ms-doj-tunney.html">FSF's Statement in
+ Response to Proposed Revised Final Judgment in Microsoft v. United
+ States</a></li>
+ <li>[2000] <a href="/philosophy/microsoft-verdict.html">On the Microsoft
+ Verdict</a></li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust.html">The Microsoft
+ Antitrust Trial and Free Software</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/amazonpatent.html">Amazon's patent on a system
- for placing a purchase order over the internet</a>, with notes by Richard
- Stallman.</li>
- <li><a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815064858/http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
- id="SequentialIPandI">Sequential Innovation, Patents, and
- Imitation</a> is a paper that presents a mathematical model showing
- how patents can impede progress in fields like software.</li>
+<h3 id="Laws" class="subheader">Laws</h3>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/hague.html">Harm from the Hague</a>.</li>
+<h4 id="patents">Patents</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">Giving the
+ Software Field Protection from Patents</a></li>
+ <li>[2011] <a href="/philosophy/europes-unitary-patent.html">Europe's
+ “unitary patent” could mean unlimited software
+ patents</a></li>
+ <li>[2006]<a href="/philosophy/trivial-patent.html">The Anatomy of a
+ Trivial Patent</a></li>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="/philosophy/bill-gates-and-other-communists.html">Bill
+ Gates and Other Communists</a></li>
+ <li>[2005] <a href="/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html"
+ id="SoftwareLiteraryPatents">Software Patents and Literary Patents</a>
+ — Speaking of patenting artistic techniques, US patent
+ (6,935,954) covers making game characters start to hallucinate when
+ (according to the game) they are being driven insane. That is getting
+ pretty close to the hypothetical examples cited in this article.</li>
+ <li>[2004] <a href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html"
+ id="FightingSoftwarePatents">Fighting Software Patents—Singly and
+ Together</a></li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/w3c-patent.html">FSF's Position on W3
+ Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy</a> (rewritten)</li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/guardian-article.html">Opposing The
+ European Software Patent Directive</a> by Richard Stallman and Nick
+ Hill</li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/hague.html">Harm from the Hague</a></li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/amazon-rms-tim.html">Letter from Richard
+ Stallman to Tim O'Reilly</a> in regard to a statement by Jeff Bezos,
+ CEO of Amazon, on the duration of software patents.</li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/amazon-nat.html">Amazon Boycott
+ Success!</a> — A letter from Nat Friedman to Richard Stallman.</li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">Boycott Amazon!</a></li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/amazonpatent.html">Amazon's patent on a
+ system for placing a purchase order over the internet</a>, with notes
+ by Richard Stallman</li>
+ <li>[1997] <a href="/philosophy/gif.html">Why there are no GIF files on GNU
+ web pages</a> — While this story is a historical illustration of
+ the danger of software patents, these particular patents are now no
+ longer a concern. For details of our website policies regarding
+ GIFs</a>, see our <a
+ href="/server/gnu-website-guidelines.html#UseofGraphics">web
+ guidelines</a>.</li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/savingeurope.html">Saving Europe from
+ Software Patents</a></li>
+ <li>[1996] How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/protecting.html">Right
+ to Write Software</a> (whether it's free or not)</li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">Patent
+ Reform Is Not Enough</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/guardian-article.html">Opposing The European
- Software Patent Directive</a>, a slightly modified version of the
- article originally published in <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/international";>
- The Guardian</a> of London, by Richard Stallman and Nick Hill.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/aug/02/comment.business";>
- Soft sell</a>. Richard Stallman's comments on the defeat of the EU
- software patenting directive. Published in <i>The Guardian</i> in 2005.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
- Patent absurdity</a>, an article by Richard M. Stallman published in
- <i>The Guardian</i> in 2005.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/bill-gates-and-other-communists.html">Bill Gates
- and Other Communists</a>. An article by Richard Stallman published
- in CNET News.com in 2005.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/trivial-patent.html">The Anatomy of a
- Trivial Patent</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html"
id="FightingSoftwarePatents">
- Fighting Software Patents - Singly and Together</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/software-patents.html">Software patents —
- Obstacles to software development</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html"
id="SoftwareLiteraryPatents">
- Software Patents and Literary Patents</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.
- Speaking of patenting artistic techniques, US patent (6,935,954)
- covers making game characters start to hallucinate when (according to
- the game) they are being driven insane. That is getting pretty close
- to the hypothetical examples cited in this article.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.html">Why there are no GIF files on GNU web
- pages</a>. While this story is a historical illustration of the danger of
- software patents, these particular patents are now no longer a concern.
- For details of our website policies regarding GIFs</a>, see our <a
- href="/server/gnu-website-guidelines.hml#UseofGraphics">web
guidelines</a>.</li>
+ <li>External links
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/search/site/dvd cases/">EFF
+ “Intellectual Property”: MPAA (Motion Picture Association
+ of America) DVD Cases Archive</a></li>
+ <li>[2005] <a
+ href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/aug/02/comment.business";>
+ Soft sell</a> — Comments on the defeat of the EU software
+ patenting directive.</li>
+ <li>[2005] <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
+ Patent absurdity</a></li>
+ <li>[2001] <a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/princeton-scientists-sue-over-squelched-research";>
+ Princeton Scientists Sue Over Squelched Research</a> — In Felten
+ v. RIAA, scientists ask a court to rule that the Digital Millennium
+ Copyright Act (DMCA) does not prohibit them from publishing their
+ research.</li>
+ <li>[2000] <a
+
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815064858/http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
+ id="SequentialIPandI">Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation</a>
+ by James Bessen and Eric Maskin — A mathematical model showing
+ how patents can impede progress in fields like software.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
</ul>
<h4 id="copyright">Copyright</h4>
-
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/assigning-copyright.html">When a Company Asks
- For Your Copyright</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/public-domain-manifesto.html">Why I Will Not Sign
- the Public Domain Manifesto</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/pirate-party.html">How the Swedish Pirate Party
- Platform Backfires on Free Software</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">Misinterpreting
- Copyright</a> is another essay by Richard Stallman about the
- flaws in popular defenses of copyright law.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html">FSF's Brief Amicus
- Curiae in the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">Science must
- “push copyright aside”</a>, another work of <a
- href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> that appeared in
- the <a
-
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050729110347/http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html";>
- Nature Webdebates</a> in 2001, explains how copyright is impeding
- progress in scientific research. You may also be interested in <a
- href="https://www.plos.org/";>The Public Library of
- Science</a>, which is dedicated to making scientific research freely
- available to all on the Internet.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">Reevaluating
+ <li>[2014] <a href="/philosophy/assigning-copyright.html">When a Company
+ Asks For Your Copyright</a></li>
+ <li>[2010] <a href="/philosophy/public-domain-manifesto.html">Why I Will
+ Not Sign the Public Domain Manifesto</a></li>
+ <li>[2008] <a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html">Freedom—or
+ Copyright?</a> (an <a
+ href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright-old.html">older version</a> of
+ this essay remains online as well.)</li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">
+ Misinterpreting Copyright</a> — About the flaws in popular
+ defenses of copyright law.</li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html">FSF's Brief Amicus
+ Curiae in the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case</a> by Eben
+ Moglen</li>
+ <li>[2001] <a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">Science must
+ “push copyright aside”</a> — On how copyright is
+ impeding progress in scientific research.</li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">Reevaluating
Copyright: The Public must prevail</a></li>
- <li><a
href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cyber/complaint_orig.html";>
- Eldred v. Reno</a> is about a lawsuit to overturn a law that extends
+ <li>External links
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://www.plos.org/";>The Public Library of Science</a> is
+ dedicated to making scientific research freely available to all on the
+ Internet.</li>
+ <li>[2001] <a
+
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030604075825/http://www.humaninfo.org/copyrigh.htm";>
+ Examples of Excellent Copyright Policies</a></li>
+ <li>[1999] <a
+
href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cyber/complaint_orig.html";>
+ Eldred v. Reno</a> — About a lawsuit to overturn a law that extends
copyright by 20 extra years.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="noip">The propaganda term “<a
+href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">Intellectual
+Property</a>”</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/komongistan.html">The Curious History of
+ Komongistan (Busting the term “intellectual property”)</a></li>
+ <li>[2006] <a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">Don't Let
+ “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</a></li>
+ <li>[2004] <a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say
+ “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage</a> —
+ On the true meaning of the phrase “Intellectual
+ Property.”</li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/ipjustice.html">Reject IP Enforcement
+ Directive</a> — Comments on the ICLC's rejection
+ of the IP Enforcement Directive.</li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/boldrin-levine.html">A review of
+ Boldrin and Levine's “The case against intellectual
+ property”</a></li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html">Freedom-Or
- Copyright?</a>, by Richard Stallman (an <a
- href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright-old.html">older version</a> of
- this essay remains online as well.)</li>
- <li>An <a
href="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/archive/downloads/research/gpl/OIIFB_GPL2_20040903.pdf";>
- English translation of the famous
- decision of the District Court of Munich</a> regarding the enforceability
and
- validity of the GPL. The translation was done by the Oxford Internet
- Institute.</li>
- <!-- This link is broken
- <li><a href="http://www.humaninfo.org/copyrigh.htm";>Examples of
- Excellent Copyright Policies</a></li>
- -->
+<h3 id="cultural">Cultural and Social Issues</h3>
+
+<h4 id="society">Digital society</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/stallmans-law.html">Stallman's Law</a></li>
+ <li>[2009] <a href="/philosophy/digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html">
+ Is Digital Inclusion A Good Thing? How Can We Make Sure It Is?</a></li>
+ <li>[2007] <a href="/philosophy/computing-progress.html">Computing
+ “progress”: good and bad</a></li>
+ <li>[2003] <a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the Information
+ Society</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="drm">Digital Restrictions Management</h4>
-
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/correcting-france-mistake.html">
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/loyal-computers.html">What Does It Mean for
+ Your Computer to Be Loyal?</a></li>
+ <li>[2013] <a href="/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">Nonfree DRM'd Games on
+ GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?</a></li>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/correcting-france-mistake.html">
Correcting My Mistake about French Law</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/the-root-of-this-problem.html">The problem is
- software controlled by its developer</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/computing-progress.html">Computing
- “progress”: good and bad</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/opposing-drm.html">Opposing Digital Rights
- Mismanagement</a>, by Richard M. Stallman, answers a few common
- questions about DRM.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">Ebooks: Freedom Or
- Copyright</a> a slightly modified version of the article, originally
- published in Technology Review in 2000, by Richard Stallman</li>
+ <li>[2008] <a href="/philosophy/the-root-of-this-problem.html">The problem
+ is software controlled by its developer</a></li>
+ <li>[2006] <a href="/philosophy/opposing-drm.html">Opposing Digital Rights
+ Mismanagement</a> answers a few common questions about DRM.</li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">Can you trust your
+ computer?</a> — About the so-called “trusted computing”
+ initiatives.</li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html">
+<h4 id="access">Access to culture</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>[1996-2016] <a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read:
+ A Dystopian Short Story</a></li>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html">
Ebooks must increase our freedom, not decrease it</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">Can you trust your
- computer?</a>, a work by Richard Stallman about the so-called
- “trusted computing” initiatives.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read: A
- Dystopian Short Story</a> by Richard Stallman.</li>
+ <li>[2011] <a href="/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html">The Danger of
+ E-Books</a></li>
+ <li>[2000] <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">Ebooks: Freedom Or
+ Copyright</a></li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="/philosophy/new-monopoly.html">U.S. Congress Threatens
+ to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly</a>, an attempt of the Congress
+ to create a private monopoly over repeating publicly known
+ information.</li>
+ <li>[1999] <a href="stophr3028.html">Stop H.R. 3028 - Protect the Net -
+ Stop the Trademark Monopolists</a>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/rms-comment-longs-article.html">Comments on
+ Roderick Long's Article</a></li>
+
+ <li>External link</h5>
+ <ul>
+ <li>[2010] <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/apr/06/digital-economy-bill-richard-stallman";>
+ Digital economy bill: One clown giveth and the other clown taketh
+ away</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h4 id="noip">The propaganda
-term <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">
-“Intellectual Property”</a></h4>
-
+<h4 id="funding">Funding of cultural works</h4>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/komongistan.html">The Curious History of
- Komongistan (Busting the term “intellectual property”)</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">Don't Let
- “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</a>, by
- Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li>Comments from Richard Stallman
- on <a href="/philosophy/ipjustice.html">the ICLC's rejection of the
- IP Enforcement Directive</a></li>
-
- <li>Richard Stallman has
- written <a href="/philosophy/boldrin-levine.html">a review of
- Boldrin and Levine's “The case against intellectual
- property.”</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say
- “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage</a>.
- An essay on the true meaning of the phrase “Intellectual
- Property”, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
+ <li>[2013] <a href="/philosophy/funding-art-vs-funding-software.html">
+ Funding Art vs Funding Software</a></li>
+ <li>[1992] <a href="/philosophy/dat.html">The Right Way to Tax DAT</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="ns">Network Services</h4>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html">
- Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues</a> an
- article by Richard Stallman.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">Who
- does that server really serve?</a> by Richard Stallman published
- in <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/richard-stallman-free-software-DRM";>
- Boston Review.</a></li>
+ <li>[2021] <a href="/philosophy/wwworst-app-store.html">The WWWorst App
+ Store</a> by Alexandre Oliva
+ <li>[2010-2020] <a href="/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">
+ Who does that server really serve?</a></li>
+ <li>[2020] <a href="/philosophy/posting-videos.html">Posting Videos</a></li>
+ <li>[2015] <a href="/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">What's Wrong
+ with YouTube</a></li>
+ <li>[2014] <a href="/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html">The
+ Bug Nobody is Allowed to Understand</a></li>
+ <li>[2011] <a href="/philosophy/judge-internet-usage.html">
+ A wise user judges each Internet usage scenario carefully</a></li>
+ <li>[2011] <a href="/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computing.html">
+ Keep control of your computing, so it doesn't control you!</a></li>
</ul>
-<h4 id="cultural">Cultural and Social Issues</h4>
-
+<h4 id="surveillance">Surveillance, censorship, etc.</h4>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/phone-anonymous-payment.html">Anonymous
- Payment by Phone</a></li>
-
- <li><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance";>
- A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe</a>, by Richard
- Stallman</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/surveillance-testimony.html">Surveillance
+ <li>[From 2013] <a href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Clearly established
+ cases of proprietary software that does nasty things to the users</a></li>
+ <li>[2015-2019] <a href="/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">How
+ Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?</a></li>
+ <li>[2018] <a href="/philosophy/surveillance-testimony.html">Surveillance
Testimony</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/devils-advocate.html">
- Why the Devil's Advocate Doesn't Help Reach the Truth</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/hackathons.html">
- Why Hackathons Should Insist on Free Software</a>
- by Richard Stallman</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/technological-neutrality.html">
- Technological Neutrality and Free Software</a>
- by Richard Stallman</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">How Much
- Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?</a> by Richard Stallman</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/nonfree-games.html">Nonfree DRM'd Games on
- GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?</a> by Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li> <a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/apr/06/digital-economy-bill-richard-stallman";>
- Digital economy bill: One clown giveth and the other clown taketh
- away</a>, by Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html">
- Is Digital Inclusion A Good Thing? How Can We Make Sure It Is?</a>
- By Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the Information
- Society</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wassenaar.html">Encryption software
- volunteers needed in countries without export control</a>.</li>
-
- <li>How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/basic-freedoms.html">
- Freedoms of Speech, Press, and Association</a> on the Internet.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/privacyaction.html">Protect Postal
- Privacy</a>, a campaign to resist the proposed rule by the United
+ <li>[2018] <a href="/philosophy/phone-anonymous-payment.html">Anonymous
+ Payment by Phone</a></li>
+ <li>[2012] <a href="/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html">Ubuntu Spyware: What
+ to Do?</a></li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/wassenaar.html">The Wassenar Arrangement</a>
+ — Encryption software volunteers needed in countries without export
+ control</a>.</li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/privacyaction.html">Protect Postal
+ Privacy</a> — A campaign to resist the proposed rule by the United
States Postal Service to collect private information from
customers.</li>
+ <li>[1996] How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/basic-freedoms.html">
+ Freedoms of Speech, Press, and Association</a> on the Internet.</li>
+ <li>[1996] <a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">Censoring My
+ Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ucita.html">Why We Must Fight UCITA</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/second-sight.html">Free Software and
- (e-)Government</a> — an article from The Guardian, by Richard
- Stallman (originally published under the title “Second
- Sight”).</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/fs-and-sustainable-development.html">
- Free Software and Sustainable Development</a> — A short
- article by Richard Stallman regarding the use of proprietary
- software in cultural development.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computing.html">
- Keep control of your computing, so it doesn't control you!</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/judge-internet-usage.html">
- A wise user judges each Internet usage scenario carefully</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html">The Danger of
E-Books</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html">
- Is It Ever a Good Thing to Use a Nonfree Program?</a> By
- Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/contradictory-support.html">
- Beware of Contradictory “Support”</a></li>
+ <li>External link
+ <ul>
+ <li>[2018] <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance";>
+ A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h4 id="misc">Misc</h4>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/posting-videos.html">Posting Videos</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/practical.html">The advantages of free
- software</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html">The
- Bug Nobody is Allowed to Understand</a>, By Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/sun-in-night-time.html">The Curious
- Incident of Sun in the Night-Time</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/sco/sco-gnu-linux.html">SCO, GNU, and
- Linux</a>, by Richard Stallman, discusses how SCO's lawsuit against
- IBM pertains to the work of the GNU project. Please see
- the <a href="/philosophy/sco/sco.html">FSF SCO Response Page</a> for
- more details on this subject.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ms-doj-tunney.html">FSF's Statement in
- Response to Proposed Revised Final Judgment in Microsoft vs. United
- States, submitted to the US Department of Justice under the Tunney
- Act</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/new-monopoly.html">U.S. Congress Threatens
- to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly</a>, an attempt of the Congress
- to create a private monopoly over repeating publicly known
- information.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/dat.html">The Right Way to Tax DAT</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">Censoring My
- Software</a>, by Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/funding-art-vs-funding-software.html">Funding
- Art vs Funding Software</a>, by Richard Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html">
- Android and Users' Freedom</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.html">Ubuntu Spyware: What to
Do?</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html">What's Wrong with
- YouTube</a></li>
+<h3 class="subheader" id="terminology">Terminology and Definitions</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>[From 1999] <a href="/philosophy/fs-translations.html">Translations of
+ the term “free software”</a> into various languages.</li>
+ <li>[From 1996] <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Confusing
+ Words</a> which You Might Want to Avoid</li>
+ <li>[1996-2019] <a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free
+ and Non-Free Software</a></li>
+ <li>[2013] <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Why call it
+ the Swindle</a></li>
+ <li>[2002] <a href="/philosophy/wipo-PublicAwarenessOfCopyright-2002.html">
+ Public Awareness of Copyright, WIPO, June 2002</a> — How WIPO
+ recognizes that their system is designed to restrict the public, and
+ how they propose to modify terminology so that people won't notice.</li>
+</ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/netscape.html">Netscape and Free Software</a>,
- an old article that clarifies some misunderstandings about an
- announcement by Netscape.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-comment-longs-article.html">Comments on
- Roderick Long's Article</a>.</li>
-</ul>
+<h3 id="humor" class="subheader">Philosophical humor</h3>
-<h3 id="terminology">Terminology and Definitions</h3>
+<p>We don't have to be serious <i>all</i> the time.</p>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html">
- Free Hardware and Free Hardware Designs</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Confusing Words</a>
- which You Might Want to Avoid</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wipo-PublicAwarenessOfCopyright-2002.html">
- Public Awareness of Copyright, WIPO, June 2002</a>. On how WIPO
- recognizes that their system is designed to restrict the public, and
- how they propose to modify terminology so that people won't notice.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
- “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">“Open
- Source Software” or “Free Software”?</a>
- (This is an older essay about the same topic as the previous one.)</li>
- <li>Richard Stallman wrote <a href="/philosophy/drdobbs-letter.html">
- letter to the editor</a> of Dr. Dobb's Journal in June 2001 which
further
- explains the distinction between the Free Software and Open Source
- movements.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free and
- Non-Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/loyal-computers.html">
- What Does It Mean for Your Computer to Be Loyal?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/fs-translations.html">Translations of the
- term “free software”</a> into various languages.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Why call it the
- Swindle</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3 id="upholding">Upholding Software Freedom</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html">Saying No to unjust
- computing even once is help</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/install-fest-devil.html">Install Fests:
- What to Do about the Deal with the Devil</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/upgrade-windows.html">What Is the Right Way to
- Upgrade an Installation of Windows?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/use-free-software.html">The Free Software
- Community After 20 Years</a>, With great but incomplete success,
- what now?</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/mcvoy.html">Thank You, Larry McVoy</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/social-inertia.html">
- Overcoming Social Inertia</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/compromise.html">Avoiding Ruinous
Compromises</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">
- Free Software Is Even More Important Now</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/fun/humor.html#Philosophy">Laugh along with GNU
+ (Philosophy)</a></li>
+ <li>[2014] <a href="/philosophy/fire.html">Copyrighting Fire!</a> by Ian
+ Clarke</li>
+ <li>[2000] <a href="/philosophy/bdk.html">The Ballad of Dennis Karjala</a>
+ by Timothy R. Phillips</li>
</ul>
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