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[Marco Ciurcina]

A richiesta, inoltro da RMS.
m.c.

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Oggetto: For discussioni list
Data: sabato 25 dicembre 2010, 16:25:30
Da: Richard Stallman <rms a gnu.org>
A: Marco Ciurcina <ciurcina a studiolegale.it>, Renzo Davoli <renzo a cs.unibo.it>
CC: Dora Scilipoti <dorascilipoti a alice.it>, dorascilipoti a gmail.com, 
rms a gnu.org

[I am not in the discussioni list, so would one of you please post
this message there for me?]

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.