I've read this story before. It's got some great ideas, but is rather lacking stylistically; Stallman's prose is very clinical.
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The content seemed more like an argument for our continued right to encryption, not necessarily reading material.
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A lot of great reading material could be considered arguments for positions/philosophies; for instance,
1984 serves primarily as a vehicle for Orwell's views on governments, politics, and the dangers and nature of totalitarianism.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It's not entirely clear that a person *can* place works into the public domain; there's no legal mechanism for doing so, at least in the US. Certainly, there is no way to say, "I maintain copyright of this for 25 years, at which point I'll decide if I wish to extend it for another 25 years, after which it's released into the public domain."
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That's true, but there's a license called
CC0 which is maintained by Creative Commons specifically to get around this problem. It's legal language puts the work as close to the public domain as the jurisdiction in question legally allows.