Transcript: Richard Stallman, honorary degree speech, Pavia 2007

[Posted October 17, 2007 by cook]

The Fellowship of FSFE has posted a transcript from Richard Stallman's acceptance speech for an honorary University of Parva, Italy degree. "Innovation can create riches and once in a while, those riches can lead to general economic prosperity, especially if you don't have neo-liberal economics to impede the result. But innovation affects things much more important than riches or even economic prosperity. Democracy was an innovation, fascism was an innovation. Today, in Italy, we see the innovation of placing criminal charges against fishermen for saving people from drowning in the sea. Innovations can directly affect our freedom, which is more important than anything else. Innovation can affect social solidarity, for good or for ill." (Thanks to Alessandro Rubini and Ciaran O'Riordan).

Transcript: Richard Stallman, honorary degree speech, Pavia 2007

Posted Oct 18, 2007 23:51 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] (1 responses)

> Today, in Italy, we see the innovation of placing criminal charges against fishermen for
saving people from drowning in the sea.

Yup; that's rms.  Biting the hand that awards him.  ;-)

Transcript: Richard Stallman, honorary degree speech, Pavia 2007

Posted Oct 19, 2007 8:25 UTC (Fri) by auc (subscriber, #45914) [Link]

It is not the same hand.