Fred,
Roger Clarke, of the Australian National University in Canberra, has
written a good paper on the origins of the slogan, "Information wants to be
free".
You will find it at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/IWtbF.html
I hope that this helps !
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>I would be grateful for any information as to the origins of the slogan
>"Information wants to be free." The earliest I find on Nexis is Stewart
>Brand in 1984, but an extremely knowledgeable person tells me she thinks
>it was around before that.
>
>Fred Shapiro
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