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- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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<h2 id="ThirdPartyIdeas">Third Party Ideas</h2>
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<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>
+speak for the GNU project&mdash;but we more or less agree with them.</p>
<p>
Many of the
@@ -33,11 +25,12 @@ Many of the
for Freedom in Computer Development and Electronic Communications</a>
also have philosophical opinions in support of free software, or
related issues.</p>
+</div>
<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>
+ <a href="https://shop.fsf.org/books-docs/free-software-free-society-selected-essays-richard-m-stallman-3rd-edition"><i>
Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard
M. Stallman</i></a>.</li>
@@ -50,7 +43,7 @@ related issues.</p>
Future of Copyright</a>, an essay by Rasmus Fleischer.</li>
<li><a
- href="http://cic.unb.br/~rezende/trabs/stockholm.html">The
+ href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190917154711/https://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>
@@ -59,7 +52,7 @@ related issues.</p>
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">
+ <a href="https://www.informationweek.com/it-life/how-vista-lets-microsoft-lock-users-in">
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.
@@ -84,13 +77,26 @@ related issues.</p>
<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="/philosophy/patent-practice-panel.html">Transcript of a
+ panel presentation</a>, <cite>New developments in patent practice:
+ assessing the risks and cost of portfolio licensing and
+ hold-ups</cite>, given by Daniel B. Ravicher as the executive
+ director of the Public Patent Foundation on Wednesday, November
+ 10, 2004, at a conference organized by the Foundation for a Free
+ Information Infrastructure (FFII) in Brussels, Belgium. The GNU
+ Project disagrees with the article's assumption that nonfree programs
+ are morally legitimate competitors.</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
+ 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="https://web.archive.org/web/20110807055230/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1010603/groklaw-sends-dear-darl-letter">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>
@@ -134,8 +140,8 @@ 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.
+wrong of stopping people from sharing, it can only be even more harmful
+when we consider the ethics as well.
</p></li>
<li>Two articles by Duncan Campbell describe how NSA backdoors were
@@ -179,7 +185,7 @@ once we consider the ethics as well.
<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
+ 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>
@@ -214,10 +220,11 @@ joint statement responding to comments by Craig Mundie of Microsoft
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>
+ &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>
+ 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
@@ -246,19 +253,15 @@ joint statement responding to comments by Craig Mundie of Microsoft
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.
+ <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509191813/http://www.maui.net/%7Ezen_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
@@ -293,7 +296,7 @@ joint statement responding to comments by Craig Mundie of Microsoft
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"
+ <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170628063222/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
@@ -318,8 +321,8 @@ href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA158872.html">The
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 href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211118053107/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
@@ -344,9 +347,13 @@ href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA158872.html">The
<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://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="https://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>
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@@ -386,10 +393,11 @@ by Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter</li>
</blockquote>
(Thanks to Nelson Beebe for the reference.)</li>
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