Free as in Freedom 
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

By Sam Williams


The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
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        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated March 4, 2004.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{iv}  2nd para;
Wording in GFDL, would follow guidleines more closely with something like: ..."with
no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts".
(c.w. p:216 addendum)


[6]  3rd paragraph;
Actually a historical error in this sentence:

"On the west coast...few low-level engineers...using this system."

This is an attempt to rewrite history.
1) Unix was written by some of the top engineers at Bell Labs. They also wrote C, C++
(in the 80s) and other software that pops up in the book.
2) The value of Berkeley's contribution to Unix in the 70s is debatable; depending on
how you feel about the vi editor...
Berkeley's important contribution to Unix was the TCP/IP stack, in the early 80s.


(36)  endnote #1;
The given link of http://www.mgross.com/interviews/stallman1.html is currently 404.

The interview can be found at:
http://www.mgross.com/MoreThgsChng/interviews/stallman1.html


{63}  3rd full paragraph;
Tim Ney never served as executive director of the FSF.  He held the
positions of "Office Manager" and "Clerk of the Corporation".


{105}  2nd full paragraph;
The year of the Emacs release probably should be "1985", not "1995".  While there may
have been an Emacs release in 1995, I think the author means the "1985" one in this
context.


(125)  2nd paragraph;
Some confusion with trn and patch



(153) [footnote 3]  http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/9780596002879/ch10.html;
Footnote 3 mentions a paper I wrote for Uniform NZ called "Why Linux is Successful".
The paper in all it's non-glory is available at http://liam.xinqu.net/linux-opinion.html 
if you wish to provide a link on the page.


[176]  3rd full paragraph;
This is inaccurate.  I was reading much of RMS' email at the time as part of my job
as his assistant.  RMS spent a lot of time negotiating and working with Troll Tech to
help them move toward a GPL release, commenting on versions of the Qt license, and
trying to get them to choose GPL.  It was RMS who finally explained to them how to
make a viable Free Software relicensing business using GNU GPL.


chapter 9;
(Sorry, I'm reading the online version and don't have the page number.)

> Jeremy  Allison, a Sun user during the late 1980s and programmer
> destined to run his own free software project, Samba

Jeremy is co-maintainer of Samba and one of the most important developers, but I
think it's not "his own" project.  The Samba project was started by Andrew Tridgell.
I suppose you should check with Jeremy what terminology he prefers.

See for example:

http://va.samba.org/samba/10years.html

> League of Programming Freedom

I think the name is actually "League *for* Programming Freedom".  See lpf.ai.mit.edu,
etc.