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2 unusual facts about free software movement


Free software movement

The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, may be seen as representatives of the value based versus apolitical philosophies, as well as the GNU versus Linux coding styles.

Congressmen Edgar David Villanueva and Jacques Rodrich Ackerman have been instrumental in introducing in Republic of Peru bill 1609 on "Free Software in Public Administration".


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

In the book, Bob Young of Red Hat supports the free software movement by saying that it enables people to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Just for Fun

Other than this the book explains Torvalds' view of himself, the free software movement and the development of Linux.

Networked narrative

Internet activism, hacktivism, and the free software movement are principal examples of such narratives in practice.


see also

9793 Torvalds

9882 Stallman, an asteroid named after Richard Matthew Stallman, American hacker, founder of the free software movement and the GNU project