Richard Stallman: Free Software and Beyond
July 16, 2008
Commentary by Stephen Downes

One view from the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society in Barcelona (Spain), 15 July 2008. Recap of remarks by Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, including: a) Free Software is about giving freedom to the user and respecting the work done by the community of programmers, b) Electronic book readers are evil, c) Free content for a free life. From the Q&A section - Stephen Downes: should we make it compulsory to share our software at classrooms? does this apply or extrapolate to educational resources? Stallman: sharing should be a fundamental value to be taught at schools, so yes, sharing software should be compulsory, and same applies to content. -BD

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Re: Richard Stallman: Free Software and Beyond

Sean FitzGerald, July 16, 2008

FYI - this item didn't seem to go through to the newsletter. It's in the RSS feed but not at http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]



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