Cuba and Venezuela decided to go open source and abandon our proprietary software and copyright laws. An interesting comment from the communications minister of Cuba equated the world’s information systems to a “battlefield” in which Cuba is the underdog fighting off imperialism.

Also interesting to note is that Richard Stallman, professional nerd and hippie, showed up to the announcement with his own analogy. He decided to take the risky domestic approach and equated software to recipes which should be altered however the user thinks would be best etc. etc. Very persuasive except that I don’t cook. Proprietary fast food ftw.

[Via ZDNet]