I rarely ever would consider republishing someone else's content on this blog, if it had already been published elsewhere.

I feel, however, that Benjamin Mako Hill's essay and blog post "Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom" deserves special treatment.

It was the softly spoken and thought provoking nature of the piece, making subtle points about the differences between using the best software available and using free software that caught my eye and convinced me it was worth sharing with the wider community.

The FSF have released a video of Stephen Fry explaining free software for GNU's 25th Birthday Party.

I am trying to get Freedom Socks on the case, to get a podcaster's view on it.

Update 1: I have secured an interview with Matt Lee, FSF campaigns manager for the Freedom Socks podcast.
Update 2: Please vote the story up on Firehose, Digg, reddit, FSDaily
Update 3: The submission I made to Slashdot is now a story :)
Update 4: Freedom Socks have released a new episode interviewing Matt Lee from the FSF.