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John Perry Barlow (EFF) - 1996 (CDA reaction)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
"Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here."

Richard Stallman (FSF) 

Four Freedoms of Free Software
0. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
1. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
2. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
3. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Accessibility of source code is a necessary condition for free software.