Eeach year the FSM gather thousands of free software and libre culture actors in a dialogue with a large public. This year, we wish to bring the energies of the Libre community worldwide around Freedom And Change1.
This common theme carries the contradiction of the promise, always delayed and never accomplished, of the ‘free trade’ economy that, like the promise of democracy or the Human Rights Charter, presupposes the equality of actors and chances. Despite the paradox of this egalitary will confronted to a completely different reality, with increasing inequalities and more obvious existential threats, the contribution of free software, both marginal in the respect of its ethical choices, and increasingly dominating the network technical infrastructure, demonstrates that it’s not only possible but desirable to insist on the possibilities and coherence of an ethical discourse on freedom and the technical infrastructure fostering it.
