Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever
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Uploaded by fosdemtalks on Feb 15, 2011
By Eben Moglen
We have come a very long way since the beginning of free software. GNU, Android, Linux, Open Solaris, X, Apache, Perl & other free software have changed & are changing the world.
But events happening now, like the Wikileaks investigation, and technologies of spying and control, like Facebook and iPad, are reminding us just how politically and socially unfree computers can make us if we're not careful. In this talk, I consider where we are now, and where we need to go
FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Development European Meeting) is a European event centered around Free and Open Source software development. It is aimed at developers and all interested in the Free and Open Source news in the world. Its goals are to enable developers to meet and to promote the awareness and use of free and open source software. More info at http://fosdem.org
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Stallman was (and is) right.
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Something almost identical that ALL non geeks should know is "why political liberty and more depends on everybody understanding what software REALLY is". That is the central topic of my course. It's "almost identical" because in my opinion, see link in my account, very often what really matters is not the freedom in the actual software, but in the data and how they are accessible
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I love this man!
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