The right to read

The right to read is the Spanish title of the short story "The right to read", written by Richard Stallman in 1996. In it, The author offers his vision of the possible course of events in the near future, if the current policies on intellectual property, software patents and other issues related to free software persist.

Featured in the February 1997 issue of "Communications of ACM" and more recently in the book "Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman" (ISBN 1-882114-98-1)

It begins by declaring itself to be part of a collection of items called "From The Road To Tycho", but this collection is fictional. This article is independent and does not belong to any collection.