"Richard Stallman, who started the free software movement, visits Russian in March 2008. The legendary programmer plans to give several lectures for students and specialists and hold a press-conference. Mr. Stallman is known to be the initiator of his visit to Russia. Experts relate his arrival to a boom in the domestic free software market..."
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pogson
16 years 31 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago
Stallman's Visit to Russia
I have seen videos of Stallman's presentation. He is a wonderful, inspiring presenter. This visit should add fuel to the fire of free software adoption in Russia. Russian schools are in the process of adopting GNU/Linux. Combined with this visit, the profile of GNU/Linux and free software is rising dramatically over there.
see http://www.fsf.org/events/past-rms-speeches.html?b_start:int=0
see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html
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