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%% Copyright (c) 2002, 2010 Sam Williams
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%% Copyright (c) 2010 Richard M. Stallman
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%% Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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%% document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
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%% Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
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%% Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and
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%% no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
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%% file called ``gfdl.tex''.
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In 2002, Sam Williams wrote Free as in Freedom, a biography of Richard
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M. Stallman. In its epilogue, Williams expressed hope that choosing to
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distribute his book under the GNU Free Documentation License would
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enable and encourage others to share corrections and their own
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perspectives through modifications to his work.
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Free as in Freedom (2.0) is Stallman's revision of the original
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biography. While preserving Williams's viewpoint, it includes factual
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corrections and extensive new commentary by Stallman, as well as new
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prefaces by both authors written for the occasion. It is a rare kind
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of biography, where the reader has the benefit of both the
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biographer's original words and the subject's response.
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About the Author:
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Richard M. Stallman is an internationally recognized computer
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programmer, political activist, and author. In 1983 he founded the
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free software movement by launching the GNU Project. He coined the
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term "copyleft" and is the main author of several copyleft licenses,
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including the most widely used free software license, the GNU General
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Public License. The GNU/Linux System (the GNU operating system with
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the kernel Linux added) is today used on tens of millions of
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computers.
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Stallman is the recipient of numerous awards, including the ACM Grace
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Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic
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Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social
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and Economic Well-Being. A collection of Stallman's essays, Free
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Software, Free Society, is also available from GNU Press —
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www.gnupress.org.
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