While I cannot agree with his recommendation of a "software development tax" where the government could potentially pay the salary of free software developers, everything esle in here is fantastic.

His many arguments, even the one I disagreed with, are well thought out and well written. He makes the case not only for the development community but for the community of the whole. We are loosing our rights everyday to restrictive end user license agreements (EULA) Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and the like from Governmetns, the media, and corporations. We need to be teh residence. The more of our life is tied to computers the less it matters who controls the state and the more it matters who controls our computers.

This collection is a few years old, and misses some of the developments like Android/Linux and Microsoft joining the Linux foundation, which make me fearful that the open source advocates have one and freedom has lost, but I think that is still open for debate. Highly recommend for all. ( )