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Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)Posted Sep 3, 2009 19:00 UTC (Thu) by toxorstein (guest, #60168)Parent article: Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)
For those who don't understand Spanish the problem was more related with the university administration than with Microsoft.That's because the people who were organizing the event have an agenda that is not very Microsoft friendly. Then the administration who doesn't want to have any kind of student organization retired the support for the event so people thought that Microsoft was involved (as far as I can tell)
Ps : by the way, sorry for my awful english.
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Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware) Posted Sep 6, 2009 5:19 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] It is more that a very unfriendly (and seemingly unofficial) student organization got into the university's administration's hair over who was to appear organizing the talk. Sure, among a lot of other grievances they complain about deals with MSFT (which I very much doubt are that different from the ones US universities sign...) and that they are enthusiastic about free software, but the blog entry talks about "revolutionary struggle against high fees" (the official UTN webpage states unambiguosly that the university doesn't charge any tuition fees) and such. AFAICS, this is not about free software, that RMS stood in the middle of it is incidental in this whole mess. I'm not from Argentina, and don't know the situation at UTN Mar del Plata in any detail; but I lived through similar situations around here in Chile.
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