Free Software Briefing Download/view Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on Hacker News ↗ This is an introductory briefing on free and open source software, written for a workshop I ran at People & Planet's G8 summer festival. One on the patentability of software ideas to follow shortly. For more on the G8, see The Dissent Website, and Indymedia's G8 coverage. For more on Free Software see the Free Software Foundation website.