OVER 230 PEOPLE ATTENDED RICHARD STALLMAN’S SPEECH IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 17, 2010 – 17:52 AMT 13:52 GMT
Over 230 people attended the speech on free software and freedom
delivered in Yerevan by Richard Stallman, the founder of Free Software
Movement.
Free software is not a technical but a socio-economic and ethic issue,
according to Mr. Stallman, a fierce opponent to proprietary software.
~SIf government is using proprietary software – it’s a disaster… like
inviting the CIA for couple of days,~T he said.
During the lecture, Mr. Stallman auctioned a gnu toy, selling it for
AMD 65 thousand ($180).
As he noted in a conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, ~Sin
general former communist countries do not take up free software very
much. When the soviet union fell, in Russia and mostly in Eastern
Europe too people were only interested in how they could make money.~T
~SNow it~Rs starting to change. In China there is a free software
movement and it seems to be a lot of enthusiasm in Armenia. Places
where there is a tremendous demand for free software are South America
and India and in some European countries ~V Spain or France,~T he said.
The founder of Free Software Movement will also visit Georgia.
From: A. Papazian
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