This book provides a synoptic perspective on the relationships between free software and freedom. The book focuses on five main themes:

• emancipatory potential of technology
• social liberties
• the facilitation of creativity
• the objectivity of computing as a scientific practice
• the role of software in a cyborg world

and asks: are the freedoms of free software, and how are they manifested? Free software continues to be hyped. This book demonstrates that the hype is well-founded and yet too narrowly focused: free software promises to transform...