Free Software Writings of Bradley M. Kuhn

This page contains links to all the Free Software philosophical/political writings (and speeches and interviews) of note by bkuhn. They are listed in reverse chronological order by publication and/or completion date. (All these works are licensed under verbatim copying licenses, to the extent to which I hold copyrights. Some are links to files on other sites, so be sure to check the copyright notices there too.)

Ongoing

I write a technology blog at the Software Freedom Law Center, but it often includes Free Software writings as well.

19 April 2008

Bradley Kuhn makes a better world through software freedom, an interview with my by Tina Gasperson, appeared on linux.com.

14 February 2008

I co-authored with many of my collegues A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects.

14 November 2007

Audio from a two hour interview on the Linux Link Technology Show is available in ogg format and mp3 format.

29 September 2007

A speech, entitled Software Freedom: History! Fun! But Boring?, which was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest 2007, is available as a 41 MB Ogg file, 19 MB Speex File and a 59 MB Mp3 File.

27 September 2007

I co-authored with a few of my collegues Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers and a Code Analysis of the Linux Wireless Team's ath5k Driver.

21 May 2007

Audio from a short interview on the Episode 78 of LUG Radio is available in ogg format and mp3 format.

28 February 2007

A speech, entitled Software Freedom, Digital Restriction, and the Age of the Personal Terabyte is available as a 68 MB MP3 file. This was given at the University of Cincinnati.

18 May 2004

An essay regarding the SCO Subpoena of FSF.

24 April 2004

A speech, entitled Software Freedom and the GNU Generation is available as a 17.8 MB Ogg Vorbis file. The speech was delivered at The Siebel Center for Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign, USA.

22 April 2003

A speech, entitled Software Freedom and the GNU Generation is available as a 22.67 MB Ogg Vorbis file. The speech was delivered at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

11 November 2001

"Freedom or Power?". (Available as HTML in English, HTML in French, HTML in Spanish, HTML in Portuguese, and HTML in Italian). Published on the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project's Philosophy Page. (with Richard M. Stallman).

This was a more polished, "stand-alone" version of the essay.

15 August 2001

"Freedom or Power?", Version 0. (Available as HTML and ASCII Text.) O'Reilly Network.

5 October 2001

“Microsoft Has Tied the Valley's Hands”. (Available as ASCII Text.) Silicon Valley Business Ink (article appeared in print and online), Friday 5 October 2001 Issue. (SVBI is out of business, so only the link on my own site is valid.)

7 May 2001

"IBM Guerrilla Marketing: Just Image or a Real Commitment?". (Available as ASCII Text.)

This essay was never published anywhere but here.

3 May 2001

"The GNU GPL and the American Dream". (Available as HTML in English, HTML in French, and HTML in Italian). Published on the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project's Philosophy Page.

18 January 2001

"Proprietary Software Voting Systems?". (Available as ASCII Text.)

This essay was never published anywhere but here.

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