| Description |
xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: ; Preface; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: For Want of a Printer; 1.1 Endnote; Chapter 2: 2001: A Hacker's Odyssey; 2.1 Endnotes; Chapter 3: A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man; 3.1 Endnotes; Chapter 4: Impeach God; 4.1 Endnotes; Chapter 5: Small Puddle of Freedom; 5.1 Endnotes; Chapter 6: The Emacs Commune; 6.1 Endnotes; Chapter 7: A Stark Moral Choice; 7.1 Endnotes; Chapter 8: St. Ignucius; 8.1 Endnotes; Chapter 9: The GNU General Public License; 9.1 Endnotes; Chapter 10: GNU/Linux; 10.1 Endnotes; Chapter 11: Open Source; 11.1 Endnotes; Chapter 12: A Brief Journey Through Hacker Hell; 12.1 Endnote; Chapter 13: Continuing the Fight; 13.1 Endnote; Epilogue: Crushing Loneliness; Endnotes; Terminology; Hack, Hackers, and Hacking; GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL); 0. Preamble; 1. Applicability and Definitions; 2. Verbatim Copying; 3. Copying in Quantity; 4. Modifications; 5. Combining Documents; 6. Collections of Documents; 7. Aggregation with Independent Works; 8. Translation; 9. Termination; 10. Future Revisions of This License; ADDENDUM: How to Use This License for Your Documents; Colophon |
| Summary |
"Why would Microsoft executives lie awake at night worrying about the antics of a long-haired, renegade hacker named Richard Stallman? Why do some of the smartest programmers on the planet revere this man as "St. Ignucius"? And how did a stubborn, precocious boy obsessed with creating the perfect model rocket grow up to play David to the software industry's Goliath?" "Free as in Freedom traces this eccentric genius's evolution from gifted, solitary child to teen outcast to revered and reviled crusader. Through extensive interviews with Stallman, his family, fellow hackers, and tech-industry heavyweights, author Sam Williams crafts a portrait of a freedom fighter who has, in fact, changed the world."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Stallman, Richard.
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Free Software Foundation (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Stallmann, Richard
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Computer software -- Development.
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Computer software industry -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Computer programmers -- United States -- Biography.
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Hackers -- United States -- Biography.
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Open source software.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2003268200 |
| ISBN |
0596002874 |
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