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+<h2>Essays and Articles</h2>
+
+<div class="summary">
+<h3 class="no-display">Table of Contents</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#aboutfs">About Free Software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#aboutgnu">About the GNU Operating System</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#LicensingFreeSoftware">Licensing Free Software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Laws">Laws and Issues</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#patents">Patents</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#copyright">Copyright</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#drm">Digital Restrictions Management</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#noip">The propaganda term &ldquo;Intellectual Property&rdquo;</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#ns">Network Services</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#cultural">Cultural and Social Issues</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#misc">Misc</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Definitions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#upholding">Upholding Software Freedom</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#humor">Philosophical Humor</a></li>
+</ul>
+<hr class="no-display" />
+</div>
+
+<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>
+
+<p>A <a href="/philosophy/latest-articles.html">list of the latest
+published articles</a> is also available.</p>
+
+<p>
+<!-- please leave both these ID attributes here. ... -->
+<a id="TOCFreedomOrganizations">We</a>
+<a id="FreedomOrganizations">also</a>
+<!-- ... we removed this as an H$ section as it was duplicating the -->
+<!-- same information on links.html, but it's possible that some users -->
+<!-- have the URLs bookmarked or on their pages. -len -->
+keep a list of
+<a href="/links/links.html#FreedomOrganizations">Organizations
+that Work for Freedom in
+Computer Development and Electronic Communications</a>.</p>
+
+<h3 id="aboutfs">About 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
+from material objects&mdash;such as chairs, sandwiches, and
+gasoline&mdash;in that it can be copied and changed much more easily.
+These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe
+software users should be able to make use of them.</p>
+
+<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
+ &ldquo;Open Source&rdquo; 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">
+ Why programs must not limit the freedom to run them</a> &mdash;
+ 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">
+ Applying the Free Software Criteria</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="aboutgnu">About the GNU Operating System</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html">Initial announcement of
+ the GNU Operating System</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/manifesto.html">The GNU Manifesto</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/gnu-history.html">Brief history of the GNU Project</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">The GNU Project</a>,
+ a longer and more complete description of the project and its
+ history.</li>
+ <li><a href="/fsf/fsf.html">The official website of the Free Software Foundation</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html">Why GNU/Linux?</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="LicensingFreeSoftware">Licensing Free Software</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">General information on licensing
+ and copyleft</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/licenses/license-list.html">A list of free and nonfree
+ licenses, with comments</a>.</li>
+ <li><a href="/licenses/gpl-faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions About
+ the GNU Licenses</a></li>
+ <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&mdash;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>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="Laws">Laws and Issues</h3>
+
+<p><a href="/philosophy/stallmans-law.html">Stallman's Law</a></p>
+
+<h4 id="patents">Patents</h4>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html">Giving the Software
+ Field Protection from Patents</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/w3c-patent.html">FSF's Position on W3
+ Consortium &ldquo;Royalty-Free&rdquo; 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>
+
+ <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/search/site/dvd cases/">EFF
+ &ldquo;Intellectual Property&rdquo;: 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>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/savingeurope.html">Saving Europe from
+ Software Patents</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/europes-unitary-patent.html">Europe's
+ &ldquo;unitary patent&rdquo; could mean unlimited software patents</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">Boycott Amazon!</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon-nat.html">Amazon Boycott Success!</a>, a
+ letter from Nat Friedman to Richard Stallman.</li>
+
+ <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>
+
+ <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>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/hague.html">Harm from the Hague</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 &mdash;
+ 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
+ <a href="/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html#UseofGraphics">
+ policies regarding GIFs</a>, see our <a href="/server/standards/">
+ web guidelines</a>.</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
+ &ldquo;push copyright aside&rdquo;</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
+ 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
+ copyright by 20 extra years.</li>
+
+ <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>
+ -->
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="drm">Digital Restrictions Management</h4>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><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&nbsp;M. Stallman.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/computing-progress.html">Computing
+ &ldquo;progress&rdquo;: 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><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
+ &ldquo;trusted computing&rdquo; initiatives.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read: A
+ Dystopian Short Story</a> by Richard Stallman.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="noip">The propaganda
+term <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">
+&ldquo;Intellectual Property&rdquo;</a></h4>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/komongistan.html">The Curious History of
+ Komongistan (Busting the term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo;)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">Don't Let
+ &ldquo;Intellectual Property&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;The case against intellectual
+ property.&rdquo;</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say
+ &ldquo;Intellectual Property&rdquo;? It's a Seductive Mirage</a>.
+ An essay on the true meaning of the phrase &ldquo;Intellectual
+ Property&rdquo;, by Richard M. Stallman.</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>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 id="cultural">Cultural and Social Issues</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
+ 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
+ States Postal Service to collect private information from
+ customers.</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> &mdash; an article from The Guardian, by Richard
+ Stallman (originally published under the title &ldquo;Second
+ Sight&rdquo;).</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/fs-and-sustainable-development.html">
+ Free Software and Sustainable Development</a> &mdash; 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 &ldquo;Support&rdquo;</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h4 id="misc">Misc</h4>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/posting-videos.html">Posting Videos</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Clearly established
+ cases of proprietary software that does nasty things to the
+ users</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>
+
+ <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="terminology">Terminology and Definitions</h3>
+
+<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
+ &ldquo;Open Source&rdquo; misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">&ldquo;Open
+ Source Software&rdquo; or &ldquo;Free Software&rdquo;?</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 &ldquo;free software&rdquo;</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>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="humor">Philosophical humor</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="/fun/humor.html#Philosophy">Philosophy Humor</a>.
+ We don't have to be serious <i>all</i> the time.</li>
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