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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>
 
 <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>
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 <ul>
   <li><a href="/philosophy/lessig-fsfs-intro.html">Introduction by
   Lawrence Lessig</a> to 
   <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>
 
   <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="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>
 
   <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="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.
   </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="/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="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>
   <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 even more harmful
 when 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>
 
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   <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
        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="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
        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>
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   <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="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
       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>
 
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   <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="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>
 <!-- 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>
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 <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>
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