LA PAZ, April 1 – Founder of the free-software movement, Richard Stallman(pic), is in Bolivia to supervise implementation of the technology in the South American country, promoter of free access to users. According to a press release by the Bolivia Free Software Community, Stallman will advise the Government in adopting this system, one year after the promulgation of the new Telecommunications Law.
That legislation includes a specific article to promote the use of free software at all state levels. While in the capital of La Paz, the US programmer will give a public lecture and will hold meetings with Bolivian experts and officials in charge of the country’s computerisation project, the statement said.
Stallman began the free software movement in 1984, with the project GNU, from which the operating system GNU/Linux originated, which is used nowadays by millions of people and institutions throughout the world, including the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1985, he set up a foundation, the objective of which is to defend the fundamental rights of computer users and is extended in a world network to promote people’s freedom to use and adoption of technology. Some South American countries as Brazil and Ecuador have already adopted this system as State policy.
The free software is a different form of understanding and adopting technology, based on the philosophy of passing on knowledge, thanks to a base of licenses to share the new programs, studying and changing them.
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