Books on (digital) freedom
2009.04.09 22:03
Those already familiar with the following books (and their topic) can probably skip reading this post and move along. I just posted them here as the books recently came up again in a mailing list I’m subscribed to.
But for the uninitiated, I’d recommend a read through them.
Freedom of information. Freedom of ideas. Freedom to innovate. In today’s times-they-are-a-changin’ digitized world. And the threats towards them, from corporate and media dinosaurs, and corrupt and out-dated copyright and patent systems.
These are some of the eye-opening enlightenments that one can expect.
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Free Software, Free Society |
Free Culture |
Viral Spiral |
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by Richard M. Stallman |
by Lawrence Lessig |
by David Bollier |
The authors also walk their talk, as the books are freely (as in freedom) available for download:
http://shop.fsf.org/product/free-software-free-society/
http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
http://www.viralspiral.cc/download-book
The first book –Stallman’s collection of essays on the topic– is particularly seminal (and is somewhat repeated in the latter two). They’re all quite hard reads… but hey, fighting for freedom is never easy. Even just to realize and understand what that freedom is.
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