[FC-discuss] Free Software and Free Culture

[Chris Morris]

Well, I personally feel free software is very important to free
culture. Without free software can any culture on networks/computers
be free from DRM? GIven the current state we find ourselves, how can
free culture exist without free software?

On a slightly different topic, I think free software is also important
as an example. One of the problems FC faces is people thinking this is
nothing but Utopian dreams. To paraphrase Eben Moglen, the problems
with pointing to Utopian is there is nothing there. However, with free
software, we finally have an example of what we can achieve; we have
somewhere we can point to. Of course, music and software are
different, but free software is an example of a "system" where the
freedom of users and producers is the central focus.

Chris

http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/berlin-keynote.html