Politicians Ought to Invite Dr. Richard Stallman and Prof. Eben Moglen to Speak About Policies, Licensing, Digital Sovereignty
Interoperable Europe Portal less than 12 months ago:
LAST year and in late 2023 (after we had left the US) we repeatedly said that one of the objectives when it comes to slandering Dr. Stallman and Prof. Moglen (GPL/copyleft masters) is to prevent them being invited to discussion about policy, especially in a political context. Scandalising smart people using phony controversies is a cheap politician's tactic (or strategy of GAFAM lobbyists; the people who led the smear campaigns or the organisations that issued statements are both Microsoft-sponsored).
We know that for nearly a year all attempts to cancel Dr. Stallman's talks have failed (we explained what happened in Spain and then in France).
Well, 18 hours ago the following incomplete page was published by Interoperable Europe Portal:
The page is considered new, but even the page source is not dated.
Is there something in Europe other than his talk this coming Monday (that we're not yet aware of)? Or was this update some stale page burped out by accident, triggered by CMS changes?
We hope that the European Commission will invite and will listen to Free software advocates. The European Commission has instead been sending taxpayers' money to Microsoft (Redmond, US, land of MElon and Cheeto) by the truckloads. When improper Microsoft contracts are reported as abuses the European Commission (or Union*) won't even pay attention. That damages people's confidence in the European Commission. There's this perception that the "EU" as a whole is a money chaser and we saw EPO corruption spreading to the EU - to the point of replacing real patent courts with unconstitutional and outright illegal kangaroo courts (captured by the private industry). █
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* The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), as we showed in 2021. There are also examples involving UEFI 'secure' boot, but those are a lot older.