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The work of Richard M. Stallman literally speaks for itself. From the documented source code to the published papers to the recorded speeches, few people have expressed as much willingness to lay their thoughts and their work on the line. Such openness ---if one can pardon a momentary un-Stallman adjective--- is refreshing. After all, we live in a society that treats information, especially personal information, as a valuable commodity. The question quickly arises. Why would anybody want to part with so much information and yet appear to demand nothing in return? As we shall see in later chapters, Stallman does not part with his words or his work altruistically. Every program, speech, and on-the-record bon mot comes with a price, albeit not the kind of price most people are used to paying.

This book is about a tool that we use called intellectual property—IP for short. We use IP to allocate value and create incentives in society. Just like many other powerful tools, IP can be very useful, but it can also be difficult to work with. You can (easily!) shoot yourself in the foot with intellectual property if you don’t understand how and why this tool works. This book is divided into two parts. The first part, comprising Chapter 1–Chapter 8, is an introduction to intellectual property law. The second part, comprising Chapter 9–Chapter 14, is more of an intellectual property handbook for developers, particularly those working in the open source space. It is also applicable to those working commercially, but more often than not your experience with intellectual property will be constrained by your employer’s IP policies. The quick outline is as follows:

In 2002, Sam Williams wrote Free as in Freedom, a biography of Richard M. Stallman. In its epilogue, Williams expressed hope that choosing to distribute his book under the GNU Free Documentation License would enable and encourage others to share corrections and their own perspectives through modifications to his work. Free as in Freedom (2.0) is Stallman's revision of the original biography. While preserving Williams's viewpoint, it includes factual corrections and extensive new commentary by Stallman, as well as new prefaces by both authors written for the occasion. It is a rare kind of biography, where the reader has the benefit of both the biographer's original words and the subject's response

Software Libre

Este documento constituye una continuación de la Guía Cubana de Migración a Software Libre publicada en el año 2008. Basados en las experiencias adquiridas durante la migración de disímiles organizaciones, tanto en Cuba como en el extranjero, así como en la evolución de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TICs), los autores de este documento hemos querido reflejar aquellos elementos que consideramos importantes a tener en cuenta para llevar a cabo un proceso exitoso de migración a aplicaciones de software libre y código abierto. Las buenas prácticas expresadas en este documento han sido probadas satisfactoriamente tanto en entidades nacionales como en empresas privadas e instituciones del sector público en el extranjero. Este documento, como su nombre lo indica, no constituye en lo absoluto un procedimiento estricto, solo pretende socializar las buenas prácticas identificadas en los escenarios de actuación de sus autores. Por lo que recomendamos analizarla y adecuarla al entorno de cada organización.