Free software advocate politicians?

Carsten Agger agger at c.dk
Sun Mar 22 19:28:24 UTC 2009


> http://www.alexmakin.com.au/journal/2009/03/22/using-linux-free-software-alternatives-to-windows/
>
> This fellow's only a local councillor. Is he really the only one in
> Australia?
>
> How's the numbers for the rest of the world? :-D
>
> Wonder how long before he gets a sales call from Microsoft ...
>

I believe that in Spain there's quite a few free software advocates in
politics - I remember reading a blog entry on FSF.org (RMS travel blog)
describing a conversation with a conservative politician who said that a
society wasn't really democratic unless it uses free software.

Same thing n Brazil, where former president Jose Sarney is among the
prominent FS advocates:

http://www.brazzil.com/2003/html/news/articles/aug03/p139aug03.htm

In Sweden, one of the candidates for the European Parliament is Erik
Josefsson:

http://www.erikjosefsson.eu/


... who used to work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is former
president of FFII Sweden. EJ is more focused on civil rights and privacy,
but is also a free software advocate.

That's just some very few :-)


br
Carsten



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