[Discussioni] Da Richard Stallman: nota sull'incontro con Vendola

[Renzo Davoli]

Richard mi chiede di fare forward di questo messaggio ai lettori
di "discussioni":

---- forwarded message:
On Dec 20 I met with Puglia President Nichi Vendola
to explain the ethical and political issue of free software.
He brought some of his staff.  I brought some
Italian free software activists I have known
and worked with for years: Marco Ciurcina, Renzo Davoli,
Juan Carlos Gentile, and Dora Scilipoti.

The discussion confirmed that Vendola had heard the
ideas of open source, but not the ideas of software libero.
He thought that free software was just a kind of computing technology.
I compared Microsoft with Monsanto to show how its proposed
"center of excellence" would lead Puglia into harmful dependence.

I can't speak for Vendola, but he said he had learned something
important about the political aspects of computing.

--
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org