August 14, 2009
August 10, 2009
Where in the world does the President attend Open Source Conferences?
In Brazil! Imagine a place where the President of a country understands and can articulate a message about Free and Open Source Software.
An amazing video is up that shows Lula da Silva, Brazilian President, talking about the importance of Free Software and the Internet a few weeks ago at the FISL Conference, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
If you live inside, or outside, Brazil you might disagree with his politics; but at FISL he delivered a pretty compelling speech on the importance of Free and Open Source Software and its place and contribution to Free Culture and Open Society, and Democratic Process.
...and he became the first world leader to endorse Firefox 3.5 ;-)
Posted by chofmann at 7:53 PM