-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/12/2012 01:36 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: "Richard Stallman" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > The free software movement, a campaign for computer users' > freedom, started in 1983. > > Do you know of any other campaigns for computer users' freedom > prior to that? I don't mean the same specific issue (free vs > proprietary software), I mean any issue of freedom from unjust > power, specifically in regard to computer users or computer use. > > The reason I'm asking is that the free software movement might > have been the first such campaign, but I can't sure yet. > > -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 > Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org <http://www.fsf.org> > www.gnu.org <http://www.gnu.org> Skype: No way! That's nonfree > (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony > http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ > *** Hello,
I take the freedom to Cc Howard Rheingold, who might know something we don't on that topic: I warmly recommend reading his Tools for Thought[1] which provides a unique account of the history of computing and the search for mind amplification and on-line communities. I remember introducing you to the artistic work of Phil Morton [2] called COPY-IT-RIGHT, in the early 70s, that proposed users to copy at will the work and spread it as widely as possible as a mean to re-appropriate technology coming from academic research, and most notably the Image Processor (IP) of Dan Sandin (Cced) [3], from the University of Illinois, Chicago (also mentioned by Ted Nelson in "Computer Lib/Dream Machines", he embraced the non-commercial approach and promoted freedom of education resources.) Although not specifically about software, and not as free as in GNU GPL (the COPY-IT-RIGHT license [4] suggested a donation to the author), I think there's a direct relation in the political aspect: Morton was promoting freedom of academic knowledge and allowed various contributors to enhance Sandin's IP over the years, and he was denouncing the asymmetry of power between the consumer and the corporation, as well as promoting the use of media (video) and public transparency as a mean to defuse that asymmetry. Regards, == hk P.S.: I apologize to Phil Morton and Dan Sandin for any imprecision. [1] http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft (Tools for Thought) [2] http://copyitright.files.wordpress.com (archive about Phil Morton's work maintained at the Chicago School of Art) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandin_Image_Processor [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Morton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQUS0eAAoJEDhjYTkcokoTaYIP/17ToT4nw/f4oUbD0wf2+njM BogH7nmqQ+gEUo0WATbwRtDA1H6MooxVxknx96thlD6n/PRSGfJsTP7cVMXcPswq W5cxbAcb7sl+QTyT8fiJ1othhVjX5xsmd+exR074vcHoAtExHx/bqZ9Tbf9O74xL YPo2Fq+3vqzphJ0UaSEWuXLj9M23QauFmYu74PwMaKtzIBsnAa2HjXDxP2eCjXcK pEIC9ZI9pY+vAwNMkNSfjPUdUBHjgoT4rA3l2njebMINfh5+DXKqEodD6h/OEEZc 7ckegamNheV+7xuA2fd5UTX0dzCdohiD+PZ/IuR5P7tFdjQbpNYsAm+dRUGfphiU yzkK2hrgVMz1jo/iXoNfLu24MAnG+th611gdAEla+gggKL8NeXOFmSd+WRaiNkmn 5NWXuVVLjF0Kc3ySb2VJAq2KfUrr0JCUSJYE6vpyIO86VBLWphTI3t308nTRgCSA OrNeQ4WbGbCpiDcFjnU66wNruLmgQd7Af7y5l7cY2+QTvk+NLOvHfEKldnj6T26u Sj08B8QxapIx7m3m7WDf/bNKKuWRv07oPiEx9iMm0yRVlMgPWSJakye+adOCdsWk PU5l658SD9SxSKZsvkBMAKMGK7eIi3u3W8U1j1XpxEyrf1R5hdWasT/0U68mRBxZ S+t5n88wfMkagzaHngsu =6M6M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
