Road to the Free Digital Society

[vitaly_repin]

Опубликовал небольшой хобби-проект - курс Ричарда Столлмана (rms) по свободному цифровому обществу.

Изначальная идея rms была в выжимке важнейших его тирад на эти темы из его публичных выступлений. Потом я осознал, что этого не хватает.  И недостающую часть лекций дозаписали с ним в Хельсинки в конце прошлого года.

Результат представлен здесь:

Comments

[emdrone]

Thanks a lot.
A logically laid out set of points, RMS's views on which
are nicely selected is a very useful instrument,
both for self-education and as a reference to use in
discussions.

Unfortunately, all this will remain unavailable to probably
99% of the Russian-speaking IT professionals and
general public unless it is translated.

Then only one second problem would remain, that
of a total lack of understanding on the part of the
Russian audience of the Stollman's agenda and reasons
for it. His arguments are likely to be rejected right
out of hand by the minds which are provincial and
narrow-minded, but at the same time highly indoctrinated
with the "market" ideology in its more barbaric form):

"Oh, free programming? - OK, it's worth what you paid for it.
Nothing!"

[vitaly_repin]

Thanks for the positive feedback.

I think there are two sides in this problem - Supply and Demand.

My goal was to contribute to the Supply side - to deliver Richard's message in just another popular format - MOOC. Translations will be very helpful to deliver the message to a wider audience.

But even English-only version can be helpful for Russian speakers - I was positively surprised by amount of students from CIS (mostly Russia, Belarus, Ukraina) who participate in English-only Coursera MOOCs.

Demand side is more challenging - if the person does not want to listen or does not want to hear the arguments, no source of information can help.

But I think we are not in the situation where there is a lot of information about Free Software which nobody wants to listen to. It's more complicated - there are problems on both sides - Supply and Demand.