Brigitte Zarzer of Telepolis did a short Interview with Eben Moglen (Professor of Law at the Columbia University in New York and Board Member of the Free Software Foundation). On 5th of June Mr. Moglen will join the Open Cultures-Conference in Vienna and deliver a speech called: "Free Software, Free Culture: After the dotCommunist Manifesto". In the Telepolis-Interview he said: "Free software provides the all-important layer that determines how the network around us functions in a form that users, individually and collectively, can modify and share. This means that the technology of the network serves its users, and evolves to meet their needs, rather than being controlled by those who manipulate them. [...] Free software means having a network that is conceived in freedom, of the people, by the people, and for the people." The interview is available in english and german. In this context I have to point you to Chris Kelty's (a member of Ethno::log :o) article Free Software/Free Science. Some current developments as a side-note: The city of Munich, Germany just recently decided (Spiegel-article in german) to change the Operating System of its ICT-infrastructure. More than 14.000 computers owned by the city's administration will get rid of MS-Windows and instead will run on Linux in the near future. And there's a healthy chance of whole Germany's administration switching to Linux, too. via Telepolis, First Monday, and Spiegel online.

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