Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)

Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)

Posted Sep 6, 2009 5:19 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware) by toxorstein
Parent article: Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)

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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