Tomorrow: Founder of the Free Software Foundation and of GNU/Linux, Richard Stallman, Speaks in Roma (Rome), Italy at 4PM
We're only a day away now, as noted yesterday and even a week ago. Richard Stallman's personal site still doesn't mention this talk, but they do:
From the above abstract:
There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include nonfree software, massive surveillance, and censorship. Nonfree programs are often designed to restrict users, control users or manipulate uesers. The War on Sharing aims to stop users from sharing copies of published works. Computers for voting make election results untrustworthy.Other threats come from use of web services, implemented by companies that can impose any conditions whatsoever. Finally, most internet activities (aside from those which existed before 2000) are precarious, dependent on permission from one company. All of these threats originate more or less in the use of nonfree software. That is why free software is the first battle in the liberation of the digital society.
If it's as well attended as his last talk (Sweden) or his last talk in Italy (Milan), then we can expect him to attract an audience of about 500.
GNU/Linux is more important than ever in this dystopian world.
The attacks on this man are proportional to the threat he (or his message) poses to really evil companies and the oligarchs who run these. █