[FSF India] UNESCO and Free Software (fwd)

[Frederick Noronha]

Thanks to Irfan Khan's s-asia-it@apnic.net for this posting. FN

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[from http://www.unesco.org/webworld/index.shtml ]


UNESCO and Free Software

October 01, 2001 - Free software faces difficult challenges and 
dangers In an article for UNESCO Free Software Portal, Richard 
Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author of 
the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the developer of software 
like gcc and Emacs, outlines the development in this area since 1984. 
"I'm grateful to UNESCO for recognizing that, in the domain of 
software, free software disseminates human knowledge in a way that 
non-free software cannot do" says Stallman.

With its Free Software Portal, UNESCO intends to provide a single 
interactive access point to information for users who wish to 
understand and follow the Open Source movement, to learn why it is 
important and to apply the concept. 
 


read Richard Stallman's article "UNESCO and Free Software" at 
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/stallman_011001.shtml