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by John Sullivan Contributions — Published on Mar 09, 2010 04:11 PM
Blog Entry Santander and Bilbao (2004-12-13 to 2004-12-16) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 03:31 PM
My short trip this month began with speeches in Santander and Bilbao, Spain. Traveling to Santander gave me a chance to see the beautiful rock-surrounded beaches; we also had time for a brief trip to the mountains of Asturias to the west.
Blog Entry Encounter with President Chavez (2004-12-01 to 2004-12-06) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 03:27 PM
I returned to Venezuela after Mexico, for a conference called Artists and Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity. On Saturday, our main activity was a meeting where President Chavez would speak. I had lunch that day with Sergeant-Major Torres, who has converted the Venezuelan Army's servers to GNU/Linux, and his wife. Since we've become friends, I encouraged him to come back to the hotel and try to get into the meeting too, figuring the security would probably ok his entry, and they did.
Blog Entry Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico (2004-11-15 to 2004-12-01) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 03:22 PM
I spent a week in Venezuela, giving a speech and some interviews at an event which invited speakers from all across Latin America. During the event, the state oil company PDVSA announced its decision to switch 100% to free software. Their decision is not based on convenience or cost; it is based on sovereignty. Their computers used to be handled by a US company, SAIC. When opponents of President Chavez tried to drive him from office by shutting down oil protection, the US government helped out by telling SAIC to prevent them from using their computers. PDVSA therefore knows from experience that using non-free software means you are at the mercy of the developers, and has decided to solve the problem for good and all.
Blog Entry Bali (2004-10-24 to 2004-10-31) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 03:15 PM
It was horribly hot in Denpasar when I arrived, just as it had been in Java, Malaysia, and Singapore. But I expected it to be comfortable in Ubud, which is at a higher elevation. I arranged to stay in a really nice home-stay place, where I stayed the previous time, around 7 years ago. I was comfortable there without air conditioning on my previous visit.
Blog Entry Australia, Malaysia, Jakarta (2004-10-03 to 2004-10-22) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 03:11 PM
I was invited to Australia so as to speak at the Builder conference, which was canceled shortly before I got there (but they had already bought my tickets). This did not mean the visit was wasted, since I had arranged 9 other speeches. The Australian Senate had attached some conditions to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and it looked like the US might reject the treaty as a result, which would give Australia a second chance to escape. I arranged to give several speeches about the danger of software patents.
Blog Entry Two Hours from Death? (2004-09-28 to 2004-10-02) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 03:08 PM
A week ago my plan was to give two speeches in Amsterdam on Wednesday Sep 29, then go to Paris on Sep 30. But in Geneva I learned that there was an e-Democracy conference in Paris on Sep 30 at which it would be useful for me to speak. Francis Muguet was organizing my participation, but it turned out on Tuesday that the only time I could speak was the morning.
Blog Entry HTML Luxemburg (2004-09-27 to 2004-09-28) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 02:58 PM
Yesterday I visited Luxemburg for the first time. Now I have been in all the countries of the European Union.
Blog Entry Norway (2004-09-14 to 2004-09-19) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 02:55 PM
I went to Norway to speak at a Java conference, and I was probably the only person in the room who did not know the Java language. (I expect to be in Java a month from now, and I've been studying Indonesian on and off for a couple of years, but I have never learned to read Java.)
Blog Entry WIPO in Geneva (2004-09-10 to 2004-09-19) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 02:50 PM
This morning I arrived in Geneva for a meeting of consumer groups on how to deal with the problems caused by WIPO(an organization whose aim is to impose increased "intellectual property rights" on the public).
Blog Entry Visit to La Paz, Part II (2004-08-12 to 2004-08-17) — by Richard Stallman — last modified Jul 12, 2010 02:39 PM
On my next-to-last day in La Paz, I went to see the ancient ruins of Tiwanaku, and Lake Titicaca. My hosts and I hired a taxi for the whole day--it was the only way to go. When we got to Tiwanaku, we took a little too long eating lunch, which forced us to hurry a bit visiting the ruins and the museum.
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