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2 RMS Books Hit Version 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the just-in-time-for-mother's-day dept.

jrepin writes "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has just released in tandem the second edition of its president and founder Richard Stallman's selected essays, Free Software, Free Society, and his semi-autobiography, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution."

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  1. Re:Free as in BSD by McDee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And some people have this funny belief that true freedom applies to everybody. If I write code under a free license then everyone should be free to do with it as they will, no restrictions. Otherwise it isn't free: in "protection from" Vs. "freedom to" the freer one is the one with the word "free" in it. Doesn't seem so hard to understand to me.

  2. The best part: by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These were typeset with the FREE TeX and uses the FREE Computer Modern Roman fonts. The previous edition was typeset with FrameMaker and uses Adobe's Sabon fonts.

    I had a free (as in torrent) copy of the previous version, but I couldn't read it knowing that it had been typeset with non-FREE software.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. Re:Free as in BSD by beelsebob · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Closed source advocates never complain about the GPL, it's only GPL advocates that complain about closed source ;)