T H E · A G E · O F
LITERATE
MACHINES

Free Software?

Free Software

Free Software

1. Run
2. Study
3. Modify
4. Share

Open Source
=
Free Software

Open Source
Isn't a Bad Term

Why Does
Free Software
Matter?

Largest Computing
Project in History

$

Vision?

Free Software
is a response

~ 50 000
years ago

Source Code
to Society

Burning Scrolls &
Burying Confucians

Language is The
Great Tool

Towards
Free Speech

The Word
was at God

The Knowledge
Within the Medium

Freedom Spreads

Burning Scrolls &
Burying Confucians

Worshipful
Company of
Stationers and
Newspaper Makers

Stationers Company
Monopoly (1556 - 1695)
Copyright vested in the printer.
Power to seize offending books and to
bring the offending author before the
authorities.

Statute of Anne
Copyright that vests in the author - 14
years for new works and 21 years for
existing work. Required submission of
multiple copies to state libraries.
53

A Blossoming
of Freedoms

Constitution of Norway
Article 100: There shall be
freedom of expression. ...
57

State-subsidized
Free Speech

Free Speech in the
Electro-Mechanical
Revolution

1438 Printing 1/1000¢

1609 Newspaper 1/10 000¢

1838 Telegraph 10¢

1848 Telephone 1/100¢

1877 Phonograph 1/10¢

1896 Radio 1/1 000 000¢

1898 Magnetic Recording 1/10¢

1927 Television $1/100 000

Radio
TV
Newspaper
Other Print Media

Worshipful
Company of
Television and
Radio Broadcasters

Literate
Machines

http://revolution

The Great
Obsoleter

Justice
Algorithms

Free as in Freedom

Balanced
Freedoms
smodeerF
decnalaB

Build Freedom
for the Future

The Mozilla
Manifesto
http://mozilla.org/about/mozilla-manifesto.html

Robo Habilis

Zak Greant
http://zak.greant.com
zak@greant.com

From http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Promote_MDC

Public Domain
Dedication