Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams

"Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software" by Sam Williams is a biography published in 2002. The book chronicles the life of Richard Stallman, the controversial founder of the free software movement. Through interviews with Stallman, his family, classmates, and colleagues, Williams explores both the public crusader and private person behind the revolutionary idea that software should be free to use, modify, and share. The biography examines how one programmer's vision challenged the entire computer industry. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Williams, Sam, 1969-
Title Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom
Credits Produced by Craig Morehouse
Reading Level Reading ease score: 60.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class QA: Science: Mathematics
Subject Stallman, Richard
Subject Free Software Foundation (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subject Computer programmers -- United States -- Biography
Subject Computer hackers -- United States -- Biography
Subject Open source software
Category Text
eBook-No. 5768
Release Date
Last Update Aug 21, 2012
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