Free Software, Free Society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. 2nd edition.

2

Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning… Was the Command Line (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999), p. 94.

3

Mary Jane Irwin, “The Brave New World of Open-Source Game Design,” New York Times, online ed., 7 February 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/02/07/07gigaom-the-brave-new- world-of-open-source-game-design-37415.html.

Chapter 16 notes

1

Dan Farber, “Oracle’s Ellison Nails Cloud Computing,” 26 September 2008, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188- 80.html.

2

An unedited transcript of American rock musician Courtney Love’s 16 May 2000 speech to the Digital Hollywood online-entertainment conference, in New York, is available at http://salon.com/technology/feature/20 00/06/14/love/print.html.

3

See my article, “On Hacking,” at http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html.

4

“Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions,” 24 September 2003, http://eupat.ffii.org/papers/europarl0309.

Chapter 17 notes

1

This note has been updated several times since the first publication of the story.

Chapter 18 notes

1

Fox Film Corp. v. Doyal, 286 US 123, 1932.

2

Congressional Record, S. 483, “The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1995,” 2 March 1995, pp. S3390–4.

3

Congressional Record, “Statement on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions,” 2 March 1995, p. S3390, http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1995-03-02/pdf/CREC-1995-03-02-pt1-PgS3390-2.pdf.

4

Jack Valenti was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America.

5

Congressional Record, remarks of Rep. Bono, 7 October 1998, p. H9952, http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1998-10-07/pdf/CREC-1998-10-07-pt1-PgH9946.pdf.

6

Since renamed to the unpronounceable CBDTPA, for which a good mnemonic is “Consume, But Don’t Try Programming Anything,” but it really stands for the “Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act.”

7

If you would like to help, I recommend the web sites http://defectivebydesign.org, http://publicknowledge.org, and http://eff.org.

Chapter 20 notes

1

“Nine Inch Nails Made at Least $750k from CC Release in Two Days,” posted by Cory Doctorow, 5 March 2008, http://boingboing.net/2008/03/05/nine-inch-nails-made.html.