Link: NY Times Tyranny of Copyright
The public domain is a range of abstract materials – commonly referred to as intellectual property – which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose. The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet as well as other media. Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer" Richard Stallman
Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement. The philosophy of the movement is to give freedom to computer users by replacing proprietary software under restrictive licensing terms with free software, with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone in cyberspace. The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, have deep philosophical differences, but has not prevented Stallman from using Torvalds's kernel or Torvalds from using Stallman's GNU General Public License.
Free/Libre Knowledge can be acquired, interpreted and applied freely, it can be re-formulated according to one's needs, and shared with others for community benefit. Open source hardware refers to computer and electronic hardware that is designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software. Open source hardware is part of the open source culture that takes the open source ideas to fields other than software.
What about pharmaceutical? "I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them," Bill Gates.
"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer" Richard Stallman
Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement. The philosophy of the movement is to give freedom to computer users by replacing proprietary software under restrictive licensing terms with free software, with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone in cyberspace. The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, have deep philosophical differences, but has not prevented Stallman from using Torvalds's kernel or Torvalds from using Stallman's GNU General Public License.
Free/Libre Knowledge can be acquired, interpreted and applied freely, it can be re-formulated according to one's needs, and shared with others for community benefit. Open source hardware refers to computer and electronic hardware that is designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software. Open source hardware is part of the open source culture that takes the open source ideas to fields other than software.
What about pharmaceutical? "I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them," Bill Gates.
Bolzano - Italian schools with free software
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