Free Software
It is very difficult to give links to freedom, is'nt freedom what remains when we have dropped the links!
Of course we can speak of our links, where they come from, how to break them, some who have a very sharp sight can even give a rough image of this freedom we cannot perceive.
Software, like any human product, can be a tool to build jails or to destroy them, everything depends of our intent. More than free software what brings Richard Marie Stallman and these FSF guys is the way to use software to build freedom.
The gnu.org site and the Philosophy of the GNU Project page is a good start point, to help us to choose between freedom or power
You can also find some links in my french page Liberté, égalité, fraternité: Le logiciel
A recent essay on this question is Toward a new self-definition for open source by Ian Bicking.
- The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is non-profit organisation active in the struggle against software patents.
- boing boing's guide to defeating censorware
- Bad Vista is a campaign against this drm enforcing OS. The Analysis of Microsoft's Suicide Note by Oliver Day analyses the “content protection scheme” in Microsoft Windows Vista.
- A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection by Peter Gutmann, is analysing the technical costs of the drm enforcing part of Widows Vista. DRM, Vista and your rights by Borys Musielak is a detailed explanations of drm (digital right management).
- GNU FTP
- FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory