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Independence From Monopolies

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 22, 2024

"They were ethnically GAFAM anyway..."

HAVING just mentioned Taiwan [1, 2], we've also found this article from almost 20 years ago about Dr. Stallman's visit to the National Taiwan University in Taipei. The article is now owned by a Chinese (IDG) site and will one day be offline, so let's reproduce some key bits:

"We just need the information about what their drivers have to do," Stallman said during a speech at the National Taiwan University in Taipei on Wednesday. Then GNU software writers can create code for open source systems, he said.

=> https://techrights.org/i/2024/06/550wpp.thumbnail.png HTTPS image: China says Taiwan independence means war

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The GNU community will promote hardware from companies that offer free driver information, he said.

Aside from some company visits, Stallman is scheduled to speak at several universities and research centers in Taiwan.

That article was authored by Dan Nystedt when the site was still truly active. His last article there was 13 years ago. Journalism has more or less died since then.

That was a few years before EEE PC came out from Taiwan, preloaded with GNU/Linux (which was rare at the time). █

Taiwan GNU is not GAFAM