Re: [Fsfe-uk] Compiling history of free software in the UK

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

Hi David,
  I hope you are able to release your work as Free Documentation[0].

I found Rebel Code by Glyn Moody to be a fairly accurate but limited
history.

Free As In Freedom by Sam Williams is a good biography of Richard
Stallman, it's released under the GNU Free Documentation License and is
available on-line at http://www.faifzilla.org/toc.html

The FSF bulletins are also quite useful, they date back as for as 1986:
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/index.html

I hope these are useful.


Ciaran.

[0] FSF approved licenses at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeDocumentationLicenses
(of these, FSF recommend the GNU Free Documentation license.  Some
people think documentation should be released under the GNU GPL.  But
this is a different discussion)

David Tannenbaum <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a doctoral student in Economic & Social History, and am writing
> my dissertation on the history of free software.
> 
> I am currently compiling a history of free software use and
> development in the UK, particularly in higher education, for a
> separate project. However, I can't seem to find any central repository
> that already exists, so I'm thinking that I might as well publish what
> I eventually compile somewhere on the web.
> 
> Could folks suggest events or areas of interest that I should include?
> I am particularly interested in free software use and development in
> higher education, but would like to include everything that's
> important.

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Ciaran O'Riordan - http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/