Interview with Richard Stallman: Four Essential Freedoms

“Q: In the past few years we have come to find a number
of countries that have decided to embrace Free software as a matter
of policy. Many people attribute such milestones to your travels
around the globe.

“Richard Matthew Stallman: They may be focusing
too much on me personally and giving insufficient credit to the
rest of the movement. In Ecuador, I personally won the support of
President Correa, but that’s the only such case I remember. In
other countries, other people did most the persuasive work. For
instance, the activists of FSF India persuaded the government of
Kerala to begin the migration to free software; I could not have
done that…”

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