Richard Stallman - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Stallman has written and been the subject of several books, including the following:

Papers in technical and academic journals

• Stallman, Richard M; Sussman, Gerald J (November 1975). Heuristic Techniques in Computer-Aided Circuit Analysis. CAS-22 (11). IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
• Stallman, Richard M; Sussman, Gerald J (1977). Forward Reasoning and Dependency-Directed Backtracking In a System for Computer-Aided Circuit analysis. Artificial Intelligence 9. pp. 135–196.
• Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail, from the Oregon Law Review of Spring 1996
• Stallman, Richard M (2009). Viewpoint: Why "open source" misses the point of free software. Communications of the ACM 52(6). pp. 31–33. doi:10.1145/1516046.1516058.
• Stallman, Richard M (2010). Is digital inclusion a good thing? How can we make sure it is? 48 (2). Communications Magazine, IEEE. pp. 112–118. doi:10.1109/MCOM.2010.5402673.

Manuals

• Stallman, Richard M (1980). EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable, Self-Documenting Display Editor. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory publication. AIM-519A.
• Stallman, Richard M (2002). GNU Emacs Manual. Boston, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 1-882114-85-X.
• Stallman, Richard M; McGrath, Roland; & Smith, Paul D (2004). GNU Make: A Program for Directed Compilation. Boston, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 1-882114-83-3.

Selected essays

• Stallman, Richard M (2010). Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Second ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 978-0-9831592-0-9.

Biography

• Williams, Sam (2010). Free as in Freedom (2.0): Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution (Second ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: GNU Press. ISBN 978-0-9831592-1-6.

Fiction

• Stallman, Richard M. (February 1997). "The Right to Read". Communications of the ACM 40 (2): 85–87. doi:10.1145/253671.253726.
• Stallman, Richard M. (2001). "Jinnetic Engineering".
• Stallman, Richard M. (2009). "Made for You".

Stallman has four topics that he has spoken on often:

• The GNU project and the free software movement, March 3, 2006
• The Dangers of Software Patents, May 24, 2004
• Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks, April 19, 2001
• The GNU GPL, and GPLv3, April 1, 2007