There is news in the Tunisian newspaper that Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement will be in Tunisia to participate in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as a member of the PCT group (Patents, Copyright, Trademarks).
Stallman, the author of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL), the most widely-used free software license, which pioneered the concept of the copyleft, talked about censorship in many occasions. He conclude about the WSIS in an article published on GNU website :
The summit may have a few useful side effects. For instance, several people came together to plan an organization to help organizations in Africa switch to GNU/Linux. But the summit did nothing to support this activity beyond providing an occasion for us to meet. Nor, I believe, was it intended to support any such thing. The overall attitude of the summit can be seen in its having invited Microsoft to speak alongside, and before, most of the various participating governments–as if to accord that criminal corporation the standing of a state.
Updated : it’s the founder of the free software movement, and not the Open Source ! thx Swobodin.
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October 18th, 2005 at 4:25 am
> Richard Stallman, founder of the open source movement
Stallman is the fonder of the Free Software movement, the OpenSource’s one is Eric S. Raymond in 1998.
October 18th, 2005 at 4:47 am
Thanks, it’s updated.
October 18th, 2005 at 5:06 am
By the way, please have a look at this script; it aims to display words that have Arabic origin, written with PHP / SQLite, and tell me whether you accept to help either by code or by content.
Thanks
PS: Anyone is welcome.
October 18th, 2005 at 5:45 am
There is still any coding todo ? it looks okay, only if you can add a search feature
October 18th, 2005 at 6:12 am
The admin CP lacks a lot!
check the source at http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/wp-content/lab/arabwords/arabwords.tar.gz (edit the .htaccess and _htpasswd files) and run aadmin.php.
You have more PHP experience than me
November 11th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
Hi, Are you in Tunisia? If so, I’d like to keep updated with your blog. Also, may I invite you to post at http://www.apc.org/english/wsis/blog/index.shtml
Regards and best wishes, FN
November 12th, 2005 at 12:44 am
Mr Frederick, I suggest you to get in touch with Marouen Mraihi he’s more concerned with the WSIS than myself. Thank you