"...Richard also covered some of the important reasons why businesses, government and education establishments should use Free Software, preventing the support and development monopolies which are now becoming commonplace, along with the problem of proprietary vendors offering gratis or near-gratis copies of their software to schools in order to keep students reliant on their package and then carry this reliance forward into their future academic and business careers..."
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schestowitz
18 years 9 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago
Video on its way
It was a great talk. A video will come soon.
"His talk was filmed and will be released online soon. I'll post an update with a link to it when that happens and I look forward to hearing what those of you who might not be so close to the code face think of it all."
"Richard's presentation was extremely compelling and thought provoking, and whilst noting that user's freedom isn't easy to respect, there are approaches which can lead to a better society."
timmydobson
18 years 8 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago
Indeed, the video
Indeed, the video