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+<h2 id="ThirdPartyIdeas">Third Party Ideas</h2>
+
+<p>
+These articles give other people's philosophical
+opinions in support of free software, or related issues, and don't
+speak for the GNU project &mdash; but we more or less agree with them.</p>
+
+<p>
+Many of the
+<a href="/links/links.html#FreedomOrganizations">Organizations that Work
+for Freedom in Computer Development and Electronic Communications</a>
+also have philosophical opinions in support of free software, or
+related issues.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/lessig-fsfs-intro.html">Introduction by
+ Lawrence Lessig</a> to
+ <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/"><i>
+ Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard
+ M. Stallman</i></a>.</li>
+
+ <li><a
+ href="http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/tblee/trouble-free-riding">The
+ Trouble with &ldquo;Free Riding&rdquo;</a>, by Timothy B. Lee.</li>
+
+ <li><a
+ href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/06/09/rasmus-fleischer/the-future-of-copyright/">The
+ Future of Copyright</a>, an essay by Rasmus Fleischer.</li>
+
+ <li><a
+ href="http://cic.unb.br/~rezende/trabs/stockholm.html">The
+ Digital Stockholm Syndrome</a>: reflections over some psychological
+ responses to market forces, by Pedro Rezende, University of Brasilia.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://questioncopyright.org">QuestionCopyright.org</a>
+ is a web site about the history and effects of copyright, dedicated
+ to raise awareness of the harmful consequences of today's copyright
+ system.</li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/how-vista-lets-microsoft-lock-users-in/d/d-id/1049559">
+ How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In</a> by Cory Doctorow.
+ <b>Note:</b> We think it is a mistake to use the enemy's favorable-sounding propaganda terms such as
+ &ldquo;trusted computing&rdquo; to describe a malicious plan.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180914161858/http://movingtofreedom.org/archives/">
+ movingtofreedom.org</a>,
+ Scott Carpenter's blog with many freedom-related articles.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/194701/">A couple of lessons on the hazards of proprietary software</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/07/03/story8.html">
+ Multiple doctors cut off from records by Dr. Notes</a>,
+ an example of how proprietary software gives the developers unjust power over the users.
+ </li>
+ <li>Jimmy Wales explains why
+ <a href="http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/">
+ Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats</a>. In this paper, he also exposes why
+ <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> needs to be free software.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.juergen-ernst.de/info_swpat_en.html">Software patents under the
+ magnifying glass</a>. In this article, the author uses arguments
+ based on lambda calculus to show why software cannot be patented.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/204641/">Free gadgets need free
+ software</a>, an editorial reporting a firmware &ldquo;upgrade&rdquo; that
+ removes the ability to record radio broadcasts.</li>
+ <li>Lakhani and Wolf's
+ <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-352-managing-innovation-emerging-trends-spring-2005/readings/lakhaniwolf.pdf">paper on the
+ motivation of free software developers</a> says that a considerable fraction are motivated by the view that software should be free. This was despite the fact that they surveyed the developers on SourceForge, a site that does not support the view that this is an ethical issue.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11663">Groklaw
+ sends a Dear Darl letter</a>: a group from the free software and
+ open source community has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl
+ McBride's Open Letter to the Open Source Community.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060313152550/http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/editorials/4788/1/">Hardware
+ Central [Archived Page]</a>. We disagree with one aspect of this article's
+ conclusion: It's not legitimate for Microsoft to help Disney and the
+ RIAA impose Digital Restrictions Management on you, any more than it
+ is legitimate for Disney and the RIAA to try it. The full power of
+ computing should be available to you, not just to the owners of
+ information.</li>
+
+<li>The SCO Sue Me Petition has overwhelmed its inceptor
+and the petition is no longer taking votes. The author
+of the petition, John Everitt, was expecting only several
+responses but instead he had thousands of participants. <a
+href="https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6913">In the
+last available public communication about the petition</a>, he
+urged people to help <a href="http://www.fsf.org">FSF</a> in any
+way possible.</li>
+
+<li><a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030904102640/http://proposicion.org.ar/doc/gob/Conde-281102/index.html.en">Senator
+Alberto Conde's answer</a> to CESSI regarding Bill E-135/02-03 which proposes
+use of Free Software in the public sector for the province of Buenos Aires. <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030204005052/http://www.proposicion.org.ar/proyecto/leyes/E-135.02-03/">The
+bill</a> has been submitted by Senator Alberto Conde himself.</li>
+
+<li>Some economists argue that copyright and patents <a
+href="https://reason.com/2003/03/01/creation-myths-2/"> fail to promote
+the progress</a> that they supposedly exist to promote.
+<p>
+This article takes a narrowly economic view of its subject, measuring
+social alternatives only by what goods are available for what price,
+assuming that you the citizen are a mere consumer and place no value
+on your freedom in itself. It also uses the misleading term
+<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">&ldquo;intellectual
+property&rdquo;</a>, which is misleading because it lumps copyrights and
+patents together. The article also lumps them together, which it can
+get away with because it ignores the (different) social issues that
+copyrights and patents raise.
+</p><p>
+Despite those flaws, it is significant. If one can judge copyright to
+be harmful even on narrow economic terms, disregarding the ethical
+wrong of stopping people from sharing, it can only be more harmful
+once we consider the ethics as well.
+</p></li>
+
+ <li>Two articles by Duncan Campbell describe how NSA backdoors were
+ hidden in proprietary software programs:
+ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130723003646/http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2898/1.html">Only NSA can
+ listen, so that's OK</a> and <a
+ href="https://www.heise.de/tp/features/How-NSA-access-was-built-into-Windows-3444341.html">How NSA
+ access was built into Windows</a>. Both are clear demonstrations of how
+ users of proprietary software can often be unaware of what they are
+ actually running.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.compilerpress.ca/Cultural%20Economics/Works/CPU%202000.htm">Copyright
+ C.P.U.</a>, by Harry Hillman Chartrand, is a good summary of the history of
+ copyright.</li>
+
+ <li>Malla Pollack's
+ <a href="http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/progress.html">What
+ is Congress Supposed to Promote?</a> explains how the United States'
+ government's recent tendencies to provide maximum control to copyright
+ holders defies the justification for establishment of copyright set out
+ in the constitution.</li>
+
+ <li>Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nu&ntilde;ez wrote a
+ letter to a Microsoft manager after they wrote expressing concern about
+ the country's pending Free Software in Public Administration bill. It
+ does an excellent job of allaying concerns about free software often
+ raised by Microsoft and others. The English translation of the letter is
+ <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030207075039/http://www.pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva_to_ms.html">
+ here</a>.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2170/2170-h/2170-h.htm#2H_4_0018">British
+ historian Thomas Macaulay</a> had ideas about copyright in 1841
+ which still hold true today.</li>
+
+
+ <li>openrevolt.org was a site devoted to providing information about
+ the European Copyright Directive and similar legislation. It
+ concentrated on the two principal problems of the EUCD, which make
+ it easier for copyright holders to censor webpages on ISPs and give
+ legal protection to copy-protection measures.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org">Chilling Effects</a> is
+ a collection point for cease and desist notices concerning online
+ activity &mdash; we invite visitors to enter C&amp;Ds they have
+ received or sent. The website collects the C&amp;Ds in a searchable
+ database and hyperlinks them to explanations of the legal
+ issues.</li>
+
+ <li><a
+ href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020222080928/www.byte.com/documents/s=2302/byt1011380870846/">
+ Coding is a Crime</a>, by Shannon Cochran, is a commentary on the indictment
+ of Jon Johansen on felony charges for helping write DeCSS.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://law.duke.edu/pd/papers/boyle.pdf">The Second Enclosure Movement
+ and the Construction of the Public Domain</a>, by James Boyle.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Papers/pw-public-spaces.html">Intellectual
+ Property: The Attack on Public Space in Cyberspace</a>, by Howard Besser,
+ describes how various industries are using their leverage with copyright
+ to make fewer locations on the Internet less and less public.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=267848#PaperDownload">Locating
+ Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein</a>, by Neil W. Netanel,
+ argues that the United States court system has been wrong in its dated
+ assumption that fair use eliminates the conflict between copyright law
+ and the First Amendment.</li>
+
+ <li>Richard Stallman co-signed
+ <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030803114409/http://perens.com/Articles/StandTogether.html">a
+joint statement responding to comments by Craig Mundie of Microsoft
+[Archived Page]</a>.</li>
+
+ <li>In <a href="/philosophy/dmarti-patent.html">Patent Reform
+ Now!</a>, Don Marti calls for free software supporters to
+ nominate Richard M. Stallman to US Patent and Trademark Office's
+ Patent Public Advisory Committee.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/stophr3028.html">Stop H.R. 3028</a>,
+ &ldquo;The Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act of 1999&rdquo;.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010410172314/http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~beejoo/gnuproject.html">
+ The GNU Project FTP Site: A Digital Collection Supporting a Social Movement [Archived Page]</a>, by Michelle Bejian.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000815064842/http://oppression.nerdherd.org/Stories/1998/9810/ucla/ucla.html">UCLA
+ discriminates against students using GNU/Linux. One part of
+ their justification is supporting the power of software
+ owners. [Archived Page]</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19991012082619/http://simson.net/clips/98.Globe.05-07.Read_them_and_weep.htm">Read
+ Them And Weep [Archived Page]</a>, by Simson Garfinkel, talks about the
+ pending bills that would give information owners sweeping new powers,
+ and restrict the activities of users.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/nonsoftware-copyleft.html">Applying Copyleft To
+ Non-Software Information</a>, by Michael Stutz.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/free-world.html">Only
+ the Free World Can Stand Up to Microsoft</a>, by Tom Hull.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp.html">The
+ Free Music Philosophy</a>, by Ram Samudrala.</li>
+
+ <li>Record companies argue for more copyright power by saying they are
+ the support of the musicians.
+ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040916075542/http://www.negativland.com/albini.html">
+ This article</a> shows how record companies really treat musicians.</li>
+
+ <!-- the original link was not working, rms suggested i
+ make a temporary link -neel
+ http://www.musicisum.com/manifesto.shtml
+ -->
+
+ <!--
+
+ 05 June 2013: Link Broken. It is not available in web.archive.org
+ because of robots.txt - rsiddharth
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html">The Manifesto:
+ Piracy is Your Friend</a>, by Jaron Lanier.
+ <br />
+ <strong>Note</strong> that the GNU Project recommends
+ <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">avoiding</a> the term
+ <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">piracy</a> since
+ it implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate.</li>
+ -->
+ <li><a href="http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html">A
+ primer on the ethics of &ldquo;Intellectual property&rdquo;</a>, by Ram Samudrala.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/self-interest.html">Is self-interest sufficient to
+ organize a free economy?</a> by Loyd Fueston.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/kragen-software.html">People, places, things and ideas</a> by Kragen Sitaker</li>
+ <li><a href="http://freenation.org/a/f31l1.html">The Libertarian Case
+ Against Intellectual Property Rights</a> by Roderick T. Long
+ <br />
+ The Free Software Movement does not endorse Libertarianism, and
+ <a href="/philosophy/rms-comment-longs-article.html">we do
+ not agree entirely</a> with that article. But it is useful for
+ refuting
+ one specific argument that is made in favor of proprietary software.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html">Anarchism
+ Triumphant:
+ Free Software and the Death of Copyright</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130409233705/http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~digger/596/werry_comm.pdf">Imagined
+ Electronic Community: Representations of Virtual Community in
+ Contemporary Business Discourse</a> by Chris Werry.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/economics_frank/frank.html">Does Studying
+ Economics Inhibit Cooperation?</a> by Frank, Gilovich, and Regan.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://danny.oz.au/freedom/ip/aidfs.html">Development,
+ Ethical Trading, and Free Software</a> by Danny Yee.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/bdk.html">The Ballad of Dennis Karjala</a>:
+ A political comment in the form of a broadside ballad
+ by Timothy R. Phillips.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/ICT-for-prosperity.html">Shaping
+ Collaborative ICT Development and Initiatives for Global
+ Prosperity</a> by Robert J. Chassell.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/papers/free-software/selection-html/">
+ Competitive Advantages of Free Software</a> by Alexandre Oliva.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.advogato.org/article/89.html"
+ id="PatentgrantundertheGPL">Patent grant under the GPL</a> by Raph Levien.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/10digital.html"
+ id="ConceptofCopyrightFightsMarkoff">The
+ Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival</a> by John
+ Markoff.</li>
+
+ <li><a id="TheRealPurposeOfCopyrightBerry"
+href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA158872.html">The
+ Real Purpose of Copyright</a> by John N. Berry III.</li>
+ <li><a id="Copyrightfire" href="/philosophy/fire.html">Copyrighting Fire! (Humor)</a> by Ian Clarke.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/infirmation_technology.html" id="INFOTECH">The Future Brings &ldquo;Infirmation Technology&rdquo;</a> by
+ Andy Oram.</li>
+<!-- Re: Free Protocols Foundation - it's a maintainance nightmare -->
+<!-- to have full descriptions in more then one place. -len -->
+<!-- RMS requests that this link is put back, 14 Dec 2000, paulv -->
+ <li><a href="http://www.freeprotocols.org/">The Free Protocols
+ Foundation</a> is an independent public forum, dedicated to the
+ support of patent-free protocols.</li>
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html">Software Libre and Commercial Viability</a> by Alessandro Rubini</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98il/">
+ Information liberation</a> by Brian Martin. We urge people to avoid
+ using the term <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">intellectual
+ property</a> and to instead speak about copyrights, patents, and/or
+ trademarks.</li>
+ <li><a href="http://wearcam.org/seatsale/index.htm">Seat Sale</a>, a
+ satire about copyright.</li>
+
+ <li>A <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/">gallery</a>
+ of examples demonstrating how outrageous and absurd the Digital
+ Millennium Copyright Act is.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/28/0121209&amp;mode=nocomment">
+ A book review of <cite>Digital Copyright</cite></a>.</li>
+
+<!-- The archived version is truncated.
+ <li><a
+ href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080703140137/http://www.itworld.com/LWD010523vcontrol4">Live and
+ let license [archived]</a> by Joe Barr.</li>
+-->
+
+ <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191221223329/http://www.piecepack.org/">Piecepack</a> is a set of
+ boardgame pieces which everyone is free to use in creating or playing
+ various types of games.</li>
+
+ <li>Eastern Gianozia has put together a <a
+ href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190924041236/http://www.gianoziaorientale.org/info/foreign_politics.html">
+ tongue-in-cheek look at Software Patents and DRM</a>.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7813">Free Software and Scouting</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.html">Patents Are an Economic Absurdity</a>: This article adopts as a premise the popular view that free trade is desirable. We don't always agree &mdash; beyond a certain point, free trade gives businesses too much power, allowing them to intimidate democracy. But that is a different matter. </li><!-- Description text by RMS -->
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/2000/09/stephan-kinsella/in-defense-of-napster-and-against-the-second-homesteading-rule/">In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf">Against Intellectual Property</a>, Spring 2001, Journal of Libertarian Studies (PDF)</li>
+<!-- Available only against a fee.
+ <li><a href="http://www.lulu.com/dcparris/">Penguin in the Pew</a>, Free Software from a Christian perspective.</li>
+-->
+<li><a
+href="http://web.archive.org/web/20121029031829/http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sdexter/Pubs/cepe2005.pdf">
+A Comparative Ethical Assessment of Free Software Licensing Schemes</a>
+by Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter</li>
+
+ <li>The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131126094524/http://simplemachines.it/index.php/sim-one-project">SIM.ONE
+ hardware project</a> has created free (as in freedom)
+ computer design specifications.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/vaccination.html">Viral Code and Vaccination</a>,
+ an article by Robert J. Chassell.</li>
+
+ <li><a href="/philosophy/why-audio-format-matters.html">Why Audio
+ Format matters</a> by Karl Fogel</li>
+
+ <li>Not available online, but as early as 1960 Bernard Galler wrote a
+ letter to the editor of the Communications of the ACM (vol.3, no.4,
+ pp.A12-A13), saying in part (mentioning price, but clearly implying
+ freedom):
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>
+ &hellip; it is clear that what is being
+ charged for is the development of the program, and
+ while I am particularly unhappy that it comes from a
+ university, I believe it is damaging to the whole
+ profession. There isn't a 704 installation that hasn't
+ directly benefited from the free exchange of programs
+ made possible by the distribution facilities of SHARE.
+ If we start to sell our programs, this will set very
+ undesirable precedents.
+ </p>
+ </blockquote>
+ (Thanks to Nelson Beebe for the reference.)</li>
+</ul>
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