Stallman gives lessons of freedom. It meets Bertinotti
Raffaele Mastrolonardo
08/06/2007 - 08:02
The leader of the free software has been taken, along with Bruce Perens, a keynote at the Sapienza. The occasion is an Italian tour that led Stallman to meet with Speaker of the House and to be heard by the Cultural Commission of the Chamber. And on Saturday, perhaps, will march against Bush.
"I refuse to use software owner. My conscience will not let me. "He says it almost immediately, just because there are no misunderstandings about the nature of its inspiration and purpose of the free software movement. Richard Stallman, after all, it is. Direct in the arguments, persuasive in 'speech without compromising behaviors. intransigence and a penalty that has seduced the audience gathered Thursday, June 7 at La Sapienza University to listen to his lecture and that of Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source initiative. And maybe they moved something even House Speaker Fausto Bertinotti , met soon after, on a tour of evangelization in the ground Italy, that was followed by a hearing in front of the Cultural Committee of the Chamber.
"It seemed to me wise even if not yet entirely convinced," said Perens Bertinotti at the end of the interview. "It 'was just the beginning of a long discussion. The problem is that we need to understand that you can believe in the individual as a source of innovation. The big software companies - said - have a total influence on the world, because they control software. We want to steal users from this control so that everyone can participate in its development. "Earlier, the boys crammed in the main hall of the former barracks Sani, the standard bearers of free software had been offered in a lively duet, the foundations of this program of action. On the one hand, the ethical approach to Stallman, the other pragmatic Perens, who proposed a kind of translation of the political universe of the father of Free Software Foundation for use by business and governments, and revealed so much better bookish any distinction, the difference between philosophy and approach free open. But also, and above all, their complementarity .
While Stallman stressed the moral dimension of the issue ("proprietary software is a social problem that free software wants to resolve"), Perens has focused on the economic ("as the capitalization held distributes the costs and risks of an enterprise, open source development risks and costs divided among many programmers: we all bring something, no one too ").
Stallman thundered against the social dangers of proprietary software (" the collaborative spirit is what animates a society and makes it different from a jungle, where an institution prevents you from sharing anything that undermines the spirit "), and disperses Perens of revolutions market (" even the burgeoning industry storage and distribution of ice has been supplanted by the advent of refrigerators, "he said dismissing fears that the spread of free software to take away jobs companies that produce programs closed).
And if the differences, language and concepts have emerged clear (for open source advocates - said Stallman - the proprietary software is inefficient solution for the open source movement is the problem ") there was also room for agreement on the whole line. As opposition to DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, are features that allow a program does not work for you, "said Stallman) and software patents (" can kill open source, and for this it is important that Europe does not change the laws to that effect, "said Perens).On current topics, such as the upcoming release of GPL v3 and Microsoft agreements with companies in the open source world (before Novell then Xandros), Stallman said that "the agreement with Novell is an attempt by Microsoft Novell circuit to find a way to charge people for permission to run GNU / Linux. But with the GPL v3 think we have found a way to turn this Agreement against Microsoft "). Position expressed recently in a comment latest draft of the license. The Roman
tour of the pioneers of free software and open source will continue today, Friday, June 8, with a debate Festival dell'innovazione che si svolge in questi giorni nella Capitale. Ma per Stallman il soggiorno potrebbe avere anche un finale in strada. Nel corso della lezione, il guru del free software ha infatti affermato che farà il possibile per essere presente alla manifestazione di Sabato contro George Bush , da lui definito come "il peggior nemico del mio Paese".
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